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Geoengineering should be treated like emergency open-heart surgery for the climate
“Yeah, humans, there will probably be some consequences. So you should only pull out the, ah, the geoengineering, ah, fix if it's otherwise unmitigated disaster. Just like they wouldn't crack my chest open if I went into the emergency room with a hangnail. They…”
Nathan Myhrvold Mar 21, 2023 ▶ 53:00 Nathan Myhrvold
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Myhrvold: Society fixes ecological problems that are localized with clear responsibility
“Whenever we have a problem that is an ecological problem that is localized in space, localized in time, and is easy to trace responsibility, we fix it.”
Nathan Myhrvold Mar 21, 2023 ▶ 19:58 Nathan Myhrvold
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