For the most part, I thought this episode was very well-scripted.
Any serious discussion of the climate crisis will necessarily include geoengineering. And any discussion of geoengineering must consider what has been called the "moral hazard" that it entails--the possibility that, if we scatter some chemical into the atmosphere and it does lower global temperatures, we (we collectively--but more realistically, the major corporations that run so much of our civilization) will continue to use fossil fuels, digging us into an ever-deepening hole.
Thus even if geoengineering worked, it would ultimately make it all worse. The problem, as multiple characters in this episode point out, is humans. A real Pogo moment: We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Any serious discussion of the climate crisis will necessarily include geoengineering. And any discussion of geoengineering must consider what has been called the "moral hazard" that it entails--the possibility that, if we scatter some chemical into the atmosphere and it does lower global temperatures, we (we collectively--but more realistically, the major corporations that run so much of our civilization) will continue to use fossil fuels, digging us into an ever-deepening hole.
Thus even if geoengineering worked, it would ultimately make it all worse. The problem, as multiple characters in this episode point out, is humans. A real Pogo moment: We have met the enemy, and he is us.