Conspiracy aside, isn't weather control the next step for our civilization? I mean, it would be incredibly beneficial to be able to effect weather patterns. We wouldn't need to relocate cities, we could elevate the production capacity of currently sparse regions, etc.
As a science nerd, I think it's a really neat idea.
I don't think we should be fucking with the environment at that level (even though we already are; see China a few years ago when they buried their cities in snow). Perhaps we should take stock and change our current paradigms (use of fossil fuels and big agra etc) and repair some of the damage we've caused to the planet before going down the path of hubris and arrogance that most modern science keeps leading us down.
Geo-engineering is absolutely a fucking insane field; to think you can predict the weather and how it all works and accurately create your own (WITHOUT NEGATIVELY IMPACTING NEIGHBORS OR THE ENTIRE WEATHER PATTERNS IN YOUR AREA) is.. just.. stupid.
We're trying to fix a symptom of a bigger problem (that being how we operate on a daily basis). Our weather shifting isn't the issue, it's how it shifted and how to stop it, today, now. Every day we continue our modus operandi, we kill the planet and she's reacting back. We need to fix our shit-system now then maybe we won't ever have to try and modify the weather. No need to go and make the weather more unpredictable than it already is.
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HilariouslyViolent ago
Conspiracy aside, isn't weather control the next step for our civilization? I mean, it would be incredibly beneficial to be able to effect weather patterns. We wouldn't need to relocate cities, we could elevate the production capacity of currently sparse regions, etc.
As a science nerd, I think it's a really neat idea.
Spiral_Out ago
I don't think we should be fucking with the environment at that level (even though we already are; see China a few years ago when they buried their cities in snow). Perhaps we should take stock and change our current paradigms (use of fossil fuels and big agra etc) and repair some of the damage we've caused to the planet before going down the path of hubris and arrogance that most modern science keeps leading us down.
Geo-engineering is absolutely a fucking insane field; to think you can predict the weather and how it all works and accurately create your own (WITHOUT NEGATIVELY IMPACTING NEIGHBORS OR THE ENTIRE WEATHER PATTERNS IN YOUR AREA) is.. just.. stupid.
HilariouslyViolent ago
So... Because we can't do it right now, means we shouldn't research it for the future? That doesn't make sense.
I'm not saying go play Thor and call down lightning today. I'm saying that it is surely a worthwhile research topic because of the possible benefits.
Spiral_Out ago
We're trying to fix a symptom of a bigger problem (that being how we operate on a daily basis). Our weather shifting isn't the issue, it's how it shifted and how to stop it, today, now. Every day we continue our modus operandi, we kill the planet and she's reacting back. We need to fix our shit-system now then maybe we won't ever have to try and modify the weather. No need to go and make the weather more unpredictable than it already is.