Continuing to burn large quantities of fossil fuels is also ecologically disastrous; given that the deserts are not processing large amounts of CO2 (compared to

Continuing to burn large quantities of fossil fuels is also ecologically disastrous; given that the deserts are not processing large amounts of CO2 (compared to, say, forests, or phytoplankton), damaging them seems like the lesser of two evils. Orbital generation would be terrific, but seems more difficult to realize.