In order for things to stay the same, they are going to have to change.

 

Topic Thirty Six

In order for things to stay the same, they are going to have to change.

Following this logic, Budyko arrived at the idea of “artificial volcanoes.” Sulfur dioxide might be injected into the stratosphere using planes or “rockets and different types of missiles.” Budyko wasn’t intent on improving on nature, in the fashion of Project Stormfury or damming the Bering Strait. Rather, he was thinking along more revanchist lines, as in the dictum from The Leopard: “If we want everything to remain as it is, everything must change.”

 “In the near future, climate modification will become necessary in order to maintain current climatic conditions,” Budyko wrote.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. Under a White Sky (p. 176). Crown. Kindle Edition. 

What do you think of the statement when it comes to climate modification, “If things are going to stay the same, things will have to change.”?

One of the ways to keep things the same is to engineer artificial volcanoes to inject aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays from the earth back into space. What do you think of this idea? What could go right and what could go wrong?