Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
by lootsauce on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:36AM
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Totally agreed, there is a degree of hubris in geo-engineering that is breathtaking. There is of course geo-engineering going on right now, climate change itself is the product of unintended consequences, but to submit that all we need to do is have intentional geo-engineering as a solution is the worst kind of myopathy.
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I think the reverse is true. Rejecting geoengineering out of hand is essentially the "we shouldn't play god" argument, which is asinine and, in this case, suggests one's not taking the problem seriously.
I don't know of any scientist who thinks it's all we have to do. But a fair number of climate scientists think we need it to buy us some time while we decarbonize and draw CO2 down to a safe level.
Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
by UnFleshedOne on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:16PM
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Humans are running on hubris ever since we invented fire and other ways to manipulate environment. It is simply a question of scale.
Intentional projects would be an improvement over current state of unintentional changes.