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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by exabrial on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:03AM (#33202975)
It’s not a trained reflex; it’s being humble enough to recognize one’s own ignorance when confronted with the complexity of the system at end.

Undoubtedly there would be disaster with unintended consequences.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by JoeAltmaier on Saturday October 15, 2022 @09:42AM (#33214733)
and undoubtably we are undergoing disasters with wholly unintended consequences.

When the house is on fire, you don't worry about water damage.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by exabrial on Monday October 17, 2022 @01:26PM (#33236840)
More aptly: if your house is on fire, you don't remove all of the oxygen from the planet.
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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:45PM (#33254463)
That's more like, what's happening now with polluters indiscriminately emitting whatever into the atmosphere without any effective rules.

But I guess that's ok somehow? And trying literally anything to reverse it is met with horror and hyperbolic rhetoric like 'remove all the oxygen from the planet'.

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