NYT today reports on the rise? emergence? rediscovery? of geoengineering options to combat global warming.

For me this stuff falls into the category of bad adaptation strategies; wait until we’re really SOL and then spend gobs of money on big techy solutions that may not work, but look cool.

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There’s plenty more critique to be had in the article itself.

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