• Fat Tony@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Excuse my ignorance but with the way things are going. It’s doesn’t look like we have much to lose.

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      1 year ago

      But we HAVE so much to loose. At the moment, even a worse case scenario is one when earth goes on and adapts. Even humans would likely survive. And it’s not even decided we’ll get that.

      But as proven time and time again by the shitty predictions we are getting, we don’t have anything close to a true understanding of the systems in which we live.

      So on top of that, you’d prefer a single nation, most likely with economic interests well active in their decision making, to try and forcefully modify the system we don’t really understand?

      Count me out.

    • 768@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Do you remember hearing about Tambora, Krakatoa and their global effects? Do you remember ozone crisis? How we found out about the severity of the impact lead had on people? Acid rain? Nuclear winter?

      Effective and thus extensive geoengineering requires an understanding of biogeochemical processes that we don’t have.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Nuclear winter didn’t happen and the jury is out of it could happen that way. Everyone knew lead was bad but the thought was because it was heavier than air the dust would settle quickly, tests in real life conditions showed that it didn’t. The ozone thing yeah give you that.