One problem with many of these methods is that the geoengineering program must continue.
Let’s say we did it for 60 years, still emitting greenhouse gasses due to the lack of immediate warming effect. Then, society shifts, the world decides that expensive geoengineering projects are unnecessary, outside of the budget, or that politicians think the risk is overblown. We stop the programs. Then we have extremely rapid warming that could push us over multiple tipping points in a few short years before anyone admits fault.
These projects need to be considered as a stay-of-execution, but many in power will treat them as an excuse to continue fossil fuel emissions.
yeah this is the most obvious path programs would send us down
even if these could work, it’ll be just like mask mandates and isolation periods in 2020. once cases went down they tore down all precautions.
the ruling class would probably use these as an excuse to accelerate emissions because the problem is “solved” until eventually killing the project and dooming it all
One problem with many of these methods is that the geoengineering program must continue.
Let’s say we did it for 60 years, still emitting greenhouse gasses due to the lack of immediate warming effect. Then, society shifts, the world decides that expensive geoengineering projects are unnecessary, outside of the budget, or that politicians think the risk is overblown. We stop the programs. Then we have extremely rapid warming that could push us over multiple tipping points in a few short years before anyone admits fault.
These projects need to be considered as a stay-of-execution, but many in power will treat them as an excuse to continue fossil fuel emissions.
yeah this is the most obvious path programs would send us down
even if these could work, it’ll be just like mask mandates and isolation periods in 2020. once cases went down they tore down all precautions.
the ruling class would probably use these as an excuse to accelerate emissions because the problem is “solved” until eventually killing the project and dooming it all