Solar Radiation Management (SRM)
example · ecological proposals ·
retold in 3 talks
Discusses the risky ecological proposal of dispersing aerosols to cool the planet, illustrating the deadlock where radical measures can trigger new catastrophes.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“This SRM is extremely risky. It could decrease crop yields irreparably, alter the water cycle and so on.”
“the continuous massive dispersals of aerosols into our atmosphere to absorb sunlight and thus cool the planet”
“can we even imagine how the fragile balance of our earth function and in what unpredictable ways geoengineering can disturb it?”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Gregor Gysi1Andrew Schally1Ed1Cecilia Alemani1Henry Farrell1Daniel Bell1Timothy Morton1Marc Chagall1
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Every retelling 3
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