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We're already geoengineering without intention to create energy. This moral question is a red herring. It's more that those against geoengineering have unreal
by throwaway13337 7y ago
We're already geoengineering without intention to create energy.
This moral question is a red herring.
It's more that those against geoengineering have unrealistic expectations that things can go 'back to the way they were' - some idealized past where the balance of nature is achieved and everything stays static. A fiction created by popular media.
The world hasn't ever been static. With or without humans.
We need a new basic narrative to get out of this way of thinking. It's really that intrinsic. We see the idealized past in Tolkien's work, in Avatar, in Disney movies - they create an idea that the only solution forward is reverse entropy. This is a damaging idea because it removes agency from us humans and leaves it up to the gods in which we'll inevitably come up empty-handed.