On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 3:28 PM Ron Baiman <rpbai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know the details of Andrew's effort, and agree that the SATAN > moniker was unfortunate, but I tend to believe that anything that we can do > to spur awareness, discussion, and debate over the urgent (and as I think > most of us believe existential for human civilization) need for direct > climate cooling now (or as soon as reasonably prudently possible depending > on method is generally a positive contribution to our epochal challenge of > a scope and within a expedited timeline never before encountered in human > history. > If your action raises awareness but almost everyone reacts negatively and becomes less sympathetic to what you're trying to do, how can that possibly be a "positive contribution"? It's like the idiots gluing themselves to paintings. It just makes the public think less of the whole idea; they don't know how to evaluate the science, but if the people arguing for X are obnoxious and arrogant and dismissive, then most people are going to lean against X as a result. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAP%3DxTqOf1_RgzgYACCaYXq8-Xzh5C5SQTnBeYmB6Hh-V8GyJUA%40mail.gmail.com.
