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Yeah, that worked really well with rabbits in Australia and cane toads in Florida and Puerto Rico. Cautious investigation is not doing nothing. It is learning
by PeterWhittaker 12y ago
Yeah, that worked really well with rabbits in Australia and cane toads in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Cautious investigation is not doing nothing. It is learning and acting when we have a much better idea of the risks.
Our proposed solutions are not necessarily better - nor necessarily worse - that our current problem.
Our job is to to analyze them rigourously before acting.
And given how disastrous rash action has been in the past, we should have learned by now, from the data, to take our time.
- DennisP 12y agoI'm not saying we should immediately start a major geoengineering project, but we should definitely start experimenting.
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoRight. Which means we don't have a solution, unlike what the article suggests, but we have a plausible experimental candidate. Not as sexy as saying we have a solution, but far safer.