On geoengineering as an alternative to curbing carbon emissions

The reason we are faced with climate change in the first place is that particular human beings and corporations, in their pursuit of profit, were allowed to intervene into the complex system that is our planet’s climate in unprecedented ways (i.e., by expelling mass quantities of various gases into the atmosphere). Now, we are being told in some quarters that, because the damage to the profit-margins of particular human beings and corporations would be unacceptable if we limited or stopped the interventions that got us into our present situation, we should intervene into the complex weather system in an even more radical and unprecedented way.