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Episode 37 - Can Technology Save Us (Part 3 - Geoengineering)

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Climate Change and the Jevin's Paradox

If we implement one of these proposed ideas and it actually does help lower the global temperature, that gives us an excuse not to change. It makes me think of like our nerves, right? Like feeling pain is a good thing because it gets us to take our hand off the hot stove. If all your nerves are dead, you put your hand down on a hot stove and you don't know it's hot. And yet you're doing tons of damage to yourself. As much as we don't want to feel the pain of climate change, it would be a shame if we did one of these band-aid solutions.

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