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But it feels like we're tinkering with a system we barely understand. Ocean ecosystems are delicate, and messing with nutrient flows or phytoplankton population
by ErigmolCt 2y ago
But it feels like we're tinkering with a system we barely understand. Ocean ecosystems are delicate, and messing with nutrient flows or phytoplankton populations could have weird downstream effects (literally and figuratively).
- rex_lupi 2y agoBut humans have already been tinkering (tinkering is not the word to describe large scale disturbances) with delicate systems we barely understand since the industrial revolution. But when it comes to technological solutions like this, somehow people think that's too risky.
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- causal 2y agoYou're not wrong, but I think people also underestimate how out of balance the system already is. It's not like Earth is this perfectly spinning top that some people want to give a nudge. It's more like it's already crashing about while we keep whacking it harder and harder with billions more barrels of oil injected into the atmosphere every year. I agree we shouldn't recklessly throw new shit at it, but incremental experiments might be worthwhile.
- ErigmolCt 1y agoI guess my main worry is that in trying to "fix" one imbalance, we might accidentally create another
- api 2y agoWe're already tinkering by dumping shitloads of carbon into the atmosphere.