Geoengineering in real life

It doesn’t work out 1

There's a lot of talk about geoengineering lately, specifically around climate change. We can just send up space mirrors or seed the atmosphere with sulfur or some such, right? Then we can just keep on keepin' on.

Sprol has a great post on a huge geoengineering project that didn't turn out quite as well as its engineers had hoped: tire reefs.

There's a lesson here, methinks. Turns out nature's pretty complicated, and you're better of adjusting yourself to it than trying to adjust it to you.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. Biodiversivist's avatar

    Biodiversivist Posted 9:33 am
    21 Feb 2007

    Yes sir,That's what happens in a critical thought vacuum.

    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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