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Then why not doing more things where coldness becomes an asset instead going against nature? Geo-engineering should be made illegal. Their "bugs" would scorch

Then why not doing more things where coldness becomes an asset instead going against nature? Geo-engineering should be made illegal. Their "bugs" would scorch the Earth. No geo-engineer knows what's he/she is doing. Any implementation there is a guarantee of having massive unintended consequences that are irreversible.

jillesvangurp 4y ago
We'll need to do some serious geo engineering on purpose to reverse all the geo engineering we've been doing by accident. Current efforts are all about stopping the problem from getting worse. We reducing the pace at which co2 emissions grow. But they are still growing, not shrinking. But the point is that, unless we do some geo engineering, those levels are not coming down by themselves any time soon.
- sebastianconcpt 4y ago
  Malthusian fabulations of the over-inflated egos of technologists wildly overestimating their understanding of Nature itself.
throwaway4aday 4y ago
For the purposes of human life, extreme cold is never an asset. It is an absence of energy and will always require energy input to accomplish anything in such a climate.
- sebastianconcpt 4y ago
  Some technologies benefit from cold. The challenge is in making them ROI positive.
  - throwaway4aday 4y ago
    That's cool but you don't need to use half the landmass of a country for those technologies. You'd be further ahead paying the cost for cooling in exchange for having that land used for agriculture, cities, and more easily accessed resources.
    - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
      Yes but what you say has a premise the current statu quo of tech. What I'm saying is that some new tech requiring lots of coldness made ROI positive. You don't need thaaaaat much. Think of having something strong enough to make cities around that industry prosperous. They will urbanize places that previously wasn't feasible to urbanize.

jillesvangurp 4y ago

We'll need to do some serious geo engineering on purpose to reverse all the geo engineering we've been doing by accident. Current efforts are all about stopping the problem from getting worse. We reducing the pace at which co2 emissions grow. But they are still growing, not shrinking. But the point is that, unless we do some geo engineering, those levels are not coming down by themselves any time soon.

sebastianconcpt 4y ago
Malthusian fabulations of the over-inflated egos of technologists wildly overestimating their understanding of Nature itself.

throwaway4aday 4y ago

For the purposes of human life, extreme cold is never an asset. It is an absence of energy and will always require energy input to accomplish anything in such a climate.

sebastianconcpt 4y ago
Some technologies benefit from cold. The challenge is in making them ROI positive.
- throwaway4aday 4y ago
  That's cool but you don't need to use half the landmass of a country for those technologies. You'd be further ahead paying the cost for cooling in exchange for having that land used for agriculture, cities, and more easily accessed resources.
  - sebastianconcpt 4y ago
    Yes but what you say has a premise the current statu quo of tech. What I'm saying is that some new tech requiring lots of coldness made ROI positive. You don't need thaaaaat much. Think of having something strong enough to make cities around that industry prosperous. They will urbanize places that previously wasn't feasible to urbanize.