RockBottomthe wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"
This is why my Dad thinks climate change is hysteria. WSJ ran an article (basically) positing that geoengineering will fix it anyway, and it’s best to pump the economy (with oil) to get there.
…Which I was particularly hurt by.
I’ve been reading geoengineering papers for a decade+, and the most practical theoretical ones boil down to desperate plans like “bathe the South Pole in sulfuric acid rain” that are still so heinously expensive it’s basically sci fi. And that’s assuming “tipping points” don’t materialize. Gah.
There’s also the, cause massive algae blooms in-between shipping lanes to try to soak up lots of carbon.
The method is by dumping millions of tons of iron ore dust into the open ocean.
One guy tested it, and it did cause an algae bloom. He didn’t do smaller scale tests, just dumped a ton or so of iron ore dust into the ocean.