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There's already a more practical way of accomplishing what you're suggesting: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvard-groups-research-planet-coo
by hh3k0 6y ago
There's already a more practical way of accomplishing what you're suggesting:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvard-groups-research-planet-cooling-aerosols/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/harvard-group...
The problem is that it a) is tackling a symptom rather than the underlying problem,
b) may encourage "business as usual",
and c) may come with undesirable side effects.
- wing-_-nuts 6y ago>may come with undesirable side effects. Such as messing with rainfall patterns in the tropics. I imagine people would be a good deal less forgiving of dying because of famine if it was caused by an informed choice by the first world, instead of an unintended consequence of industrialization.
- hh3k0 6y agoI mean, it's not like sacrificing nature and the climate wasn't an informed choice by the First World.