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Point taken and that is certainly a risk, but the other risk is a massive anthropogenic extinction. We need fast-acting cooling solutions so that we have time to scale up long-term sustainable ones.


Agreed that it is a smaller risk. That's why I do not oppose geoengineering despite being reasonably confident that once we start that path we will be wholly incapable of quitting it.




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