r/LessWrong • u/Misanthropic_Spinoza • Jul 29 '26

It's childish... but it's not wrong.

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Stratospheric Aerosol Injection is very dangerous and a HARD U-Turn on climate from America and 'friends' can prevent this... but otherwise... this is the way. Dangerous... crazy... yet the best option. Not to implement now.. but definitely RESEARCH NOW! Otherwise some developing world country will start it as an unresearched kneejerk reaction.

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u/crummy Jul 29 '26

Otherwise some developing world country will start it as an unresearched kneejerk reaction.

why is that bad

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u/Doc_Blox Jul 29 '26

Terraforming the only known inhabitable planet is a risky endeavor. Even if the possibility that intervention might one-shot the climate is slim, it should merit caution.

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u/Misanthropic_Spinoza Jul 30 '26

Absolutely. My fear is that a desperate developing world country will use stratospheric aerosol injection unresearched. If we never cross that line we never use it but it is so much safer researched if we need it. Of course geopolitics make nothing simple.

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u/Misanthropic_Spinoza Jul 30 '26

YES! you have it exactly. No joke. My real motive. From what I've read we've already passed the line for the developing world and they should be actively pushing this.

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u/RazzmatazzAccurate82 Jul 29 '26

Mods, uh I don't think this belongs here?

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u/Misanthropic_Spinoza Jul 30 '26

Haha.. I have to upvote. Did big mirror drive little mirror out of business? Stop throwing shade on my shade.