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Geo-engineering Is More about Hubris than Reality

Picture: geoeng.brs.nihon-u.ac.jp Glenn Ashton - Humans certainly are an enterprising species. Problem is, our discoveries tend to result in unintended consequences. People have now figured out that we may be able to repair or reduce our unintended impacts on the global climate by intentionally re-engineering it through a set of processes which have been collectively called “geo-engineering.” Besides the obvious moral considerations, there are serious practical concerns that geo-engineering has a high probability of making an...