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Vitalik Buterin
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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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kripcat.eth 🎩
@kripcat.eth
Think this is a bad analogy. The patient is overweight and smokes with a history of heart disease. The solution is to eat right, quit and exercise; not to medicate to facilitate a self destructive lifestyle.
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Nerd-E 🎩🔮
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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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Andi
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Argumentation from analogy is weak in general, if it’s a false analogy like this one it’s a fallacy. Not every cancer is treated with chemo, you weigh off the destructive impact with the potential outcome. What you ALWAYS do is stop taking the cancerogenic immediately or no chemo in the world will save you
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