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As you just said, if we use geoengineering to delay the catastrophe as much as we can, and if we aren't going to wake up until the catastrophe hits ... ... the
by yongjik 2y ago
As you just said, if we use geoengineering to delay the catastrophe as much as we can, and if we aren't going to wake up until the catastrophe hits ...
... then it's questionable whether geoengineering helps at all, isn't it? All it does is to postpone the inevitable until disasters hit Texas and California, and potentially prolong the misery for Botswana and Bangladesh.
- dylan604 2y agocans really enjoy being kicked though, so you have to take their feelings into consideration.
- lucb1e 2y ago> All it does is to postpone the inevitable I don't want to repeat all of what I wrote below an older comment dismissing it for a similar reason, but a shorter version of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887461> is: >> Eventually, a new generation [that grew up with climate-saving adaptations like electric cars] replaces the old, but that will not be in time for global warming to remain under the identified likely tipping points. If we can make do with artificial cooling for two or three decades, that may be the crucial amount of time we need to deal with the overshoot. >> I don't know if we will need this [but we should] consider whether that temporary effect is useful
- insane_dreamer 2y agoI tend to agree with this take