humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Feb 22, 8:21 pm, TC wrote:

> Okay. Call it accidental manipulation if you like.
> If anything the blind emission of a substance that can
> modify climate is worse than the deliberate avoidance
> of said release.

You have no way to know that, it's just a guess. It's quite possible
that avoiding the release would result in an overall worse climate.
Cold kills more people than heat.

> > We don't know enough to engineer global climate.

> Ergo we don't know enough to allow blind manipulation
> of it either - according to your position.

Nobody is blindly manipulating climate. Manipulation and engineering
require intent.

Your position is that we should bear clear, known costs and unclear,
unknown costs in the hope of obtain unclear potential benefits. The
person trying to engineer the climate has a steep burden of proof.

DS