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Under a White Sky: Review

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But what fatal flaws — obvious only in hindsight — are lurking in geoengineering, for example? We know that there are dangers.

Under a White Sky: Review

So you see, I’m not quite sanguine about our ability to engineer solutions to the many-headed hydra of a problem that is biophysical breakdown on this planet. Humans barely understand how nature works in many fundamental ways, including our own biology. We can’t engineer what we can’t understand. We probably can’t engineer biological systems at all. No, I have more confidence in nature fixing itself than in humans fixing nature.

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