@jaystephens "we're nowhere near smart enough to geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis" but we really really want to think that we are, or at minimum, that the times are desperate enough that we must try! But not desperate enough to do things like shut down coal plants or confiscate all oil company profits to pay for the transition or <insert a bunch of actions that would actually matter with very little downside except to profits and would not endanger the planet>