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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The question is on a scale of the extinction event at the end of the last ice age to the End Permian Extinction Event aka the Great Dying how bad do we want it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, if instead of reducing emissions, we try to geo-engineer our way out of global warming, screw it up, and create a real snowball Earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As opposed to geo-engineering our way into global warming like we have been?

"Oh no, don't try anything! We might be too successful."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Warming is bad, so cooling has to be good. Is that your logic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I'm just pointing out the fallacy in your comment that carbon emissions aren't geo-engineering or that reducing carbon emissions isn't either. Also that any actually geo-engineered solution, as per your definition, is going to be far less effective than the literal centuries of concerted effort to destroy the environment.