• 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.

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      1 year ago

      Well we didn’t solve those by doing nothing. And given how unwilling we seem to be in reducing our footprint. I’d say this is our only viable way.

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        1 year ago

        The only way is endangering food supply and if we stop we might have hyper climate change?

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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.