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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
That is a really bad comparison. Vaccines were based on some really good science, tested in a laboratory environment, then tested on a small number of people. Geoengineering is NOT like a vaccine. We're talking about trying some really radical and unproven #### that can only be done to the atmosphere we're reliant upon for life. We screw up efforts to geoengineer a solution, we kill the whole planet. Not just a few people, but EVERYONE and EVERYTHING. Geoengineering is a last resort for good reason. It gets ####ed up and we all die, along with pretty much everything else on the planet.
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Well ya, if step one is to throw as much as you can at it. But no, step one is to start experimenting in limited tests that have no chance of causing catastrophic damage. Just like we don't inject every person on Earth with stage on vaccine trials. It's not like we don't know what happens when you put aerosols in the atmosphere, we have plenty of volcano data to tell us. We really have a pretty good idea of how it works, and the dangers. Now is the time to start smaller scale experiments.