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79. Solar Geoengineering Would Be Radical. It Might Also Be Necessary.

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Solar Geo Engineering

Solar geo engineering is either an immediate fix, or a form of insurance. If things get worse in the future to the point where we feel a kind of despiration for immediate cooling, if we've done the research now, we'll be well positioned to act thoughtfully and quickly in the future. I don't actually love either the by time framing or the insurance framing. For me, this is really about simply an additional way to reduce real risks. So there's been headlines about how bill gates is going to block out the sun. Even the strongest critics admit the experiment itself doesn't oppose a risk. The only risk is that the balloon gondola falls on somebody,. But the atmospheric

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