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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Excited to see work on solar geoengineering: https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1775705471078293875 Maybe global-south nations who will be most hit by climate change will start threatening to do this unilaterally; even if other techniques are ultimately better, perhaps they need the push to get to the finish line
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Vitalik Buterin
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"Climate change will make the earth inhospitable for human life" and "but we can't solve it THAT WAY!" are fundamentally incompatible notions. If a patient has a cold, you give them tea and natural remedies. If a patient has cancer, you give them chemotherapy.
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Nerd-E 🎩🔮
@nerdy
Geoengineering seems far more likely to make things worse with unintended consequences, than it is to succeed. At least when it comes to methods that mess with sunlight in the atmosphere. Sunlight is important usable energy. The problem is trapped waste heat, the focus should remain on that.
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Nerd-E 🎩🔮
@nerdy
I get your opposition to the “moral hazard” arguments, and I agree. But the climate change issue is more than just average temperature. It’s about rapid, local changes in temperature but everywhere on earth. Experimenting with the atmosphere could change local climates in equally harmful ways.
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✳️ dcposch on daimo
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"[xyz]engineering seems far more likely to make things worse with unintended consequences, than it is to succeed." Most succinct expression of decel mindset. Posting this as a crying wojak is performance art
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