Most of the things you mention (e.g. deforestation, water redistribution) are things people worry about. In fact, the people worried about large scale intervent

Most of the things you mention (e.g. deforestation, water redistribution) are things people worry about. In fact, the people worried about large scale interventions are usually also the people most worried about emissions, deforestation, ocean acidification, etc. So I don't think there's much hypocrisy here.