Hi Maxwell, as an economist you know that it is all about trade-offs. There will be winners and there will be losers.
Even the politically motivated Stern Report, making the assumption that the future is always an extrapolation of the past, found that warming is net positive out to the year 2079, and even Niels Bohr could not have predicted what the geophysical situation or the human condition will be like then. What we do know is that some species of humans, animals and flora will welcome a little warming, and some will have to adapt.
It is not an environmental activist's place to decide which human societies will be winners and which will be losers. It is not the activist's job to decide which species should flourish while others will have to adapt or migrate. This is called Playing God, and delusional.
Freakonomics first mooted the idea of geoengineering about thirty years ago. Fortunately the people in a position to carry it out have decided that this would be just plain wrong.
Better to use calcium carbonate than sulphur.
https://nephewjonathan.substack.com/p/diy-geoengineering-the-whitepaper
Luckily some new funding for geoengineering just came through!
https://ariaresearch.substack.com/p/q-and-a-mark-symes-ilan-gur-managing
https://www.aria.org.uk/what-were-working-on/
Great post - solar geoengineering seems inevitable.
One big issue is: who controls the aerosol thermostat?
Hi Maxwell, as an economist you know that it is all about trade-offs. There will be winners and there will be losers.
Even the politically motivated Stern Report, making the assumption that the future is always an extrapolation of the past, found that warming is net positive out to the year 2079, and even Niels Bohr could not have predicted what the geophysical situation or the human condition will be like then. What we do know is that some species of humans, animals and flora will welcome a little warming, and some will have to adapt.
It is not an environmental activist's place to decide which human societies will be winners and which will be losers. It is not the activist's job to decide which species should flourish while others will have to adapt or migrate. This is called Playing God, and delusional.
Freakonomics first mooted the idea of geoengineering about thirty years ago. Fortunately the people in a position to carry it out have decided that this would be just plain wrong.