This makes geoengineering the very antithesis of good medicine, whose goal is to achieve a state of health and equilibrium that requires no further intervention. These technologies, by contrast, respond to the lack of balance our pollution has created by taking our ecosystems even further away from self-regulation. We would require machines to constantly pump pollution into the stratosphere and would be unable to stop unless we invented other machines that could suck existing pollution out of the lower atmosphere, then store and monitor that waste indefinitely. If we sign on to this plan and
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