Well, geoengineering could also be used to actually accelerate global warming since some would directly profit from that (e.g. fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic and ice-free transport lanes for the same).
Btw, this idea can already be found in Jules Verne's 3rd part part of the Gun Club Trilogy (there it is about righting the rotational axis of the earth in order to get the Arctic ice-free to get at assumed large coal deposits).
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No guarantee that I will find the time to read it (let alone compare the German and English versions).
That Karp piece you quoted from the New Republic sounds like a Roman senator preparing the next 'imperial expansion by pure self-defense' (although to my knowledge Rome never used drug smuggling as a pretense. They'd have gone British Opium War style anyway.).
Well, geoengineering could also be used to actually accelerate global warming since some would directly profit from that (e.g. fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic and ice-free transport lanes for the same).
Btw, this idea can already be found in Jules Verne's 3rd part part of the Gun Club Trilogy (there it is about righting the rotational axis of the earth in order to get the Arctic ice-free to get at assumed large coal deposits).
No guarantee that I will find the time to read it (let alone compare the German and English versions).
That Karp piece you quoted from the New Republic sounds like a Roman senator preparing the next 'imperial expansion by pure self-defense' (although to my knowledge Rome never used drug smuggling as a pretense. They'd have gone British Opium War style anyway.).