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0 pointsido4y ago0 comments

I think we should do everything we can (both reducing emissions and geoengineering) to fight climate change ASAP, but the problem is that a lot of very rich people (e.g. oil companies) are incentivized to not have people reduce emissions & will use the existence of technological solutions as an excuse to only do geoengineering.

We really need both, and as much of both as possible as soon as possible.

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vkou4y ago· 2 in thread

> use the existence of technological solutions as an excuse to only do geoengineering.

Actually, they use the potential existence of technological solutions as an excuse to do nothing. The politicians they bought and pay for aren't keen on funding geo-engineering.

And if they did, they'd do it out of general revenue, as opposed to a carbon tax.

idoOP4y ago

Right. Basically we have to account for the existence of bad actors

_y5hn4y ago

Bad-actors and geo-engineering, we can't handle even one of them..

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