Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel.
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And therefore we should not do anything that could help us learn about this?
What could we possibly learn from this, other than brand new ways to fuck up our environment?
If we are serious about “solving” the climate change problem, we should try fixing the things that are actually causing it…not altering the variables that aren’t.
We could learn brand new ways to fix up our environment.
You may have noticed, we’re trying that already and it’s not working particularly well. Your proposal, then, is to not try anything new but instead just keep on trying the thing we know isn’t working?
No offense, but we aren’t “trying that already”. We have spent decades trying everything except that…and this is just the latest and most desperate attempt at not doing anything to actually address the root causes of climate change.
We would rather block out the Sun, than stop burning fossil fuels. It would not surprise me, at all, if it turned out that the fossil fuel industry was behind this whole idea. It sure would be convenient to kick the can down the road a little longer, so we can keep killing ourselves for profits that you and I will never share in.