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The "termination shock" in Stephenson's eponymous novel is that (in the novel) a successful large scale effort to change the climate is underway, and people don
by aetherson 3y ago
The "termination shock" in Stephenson's eponymous novel is that (in the novel) a successful large scale effort to change the climate is underway, and people don't want to turn it off because they like its effects (though others don't like its effects).
- wolfram74 3y agoThe termination shock was speculated and unknown, the people who wanted to turn it off were the ones who suspected were getting the short end of the stick because the monsoon being weaker or non-existent was one of the possible outcomes of that method of geoengineering.
- aetherson 3y agoI was trying to avoid spoilers.