Adding iron to oceans increases populations of phyto-plankton, which results in more carbon being sequestered. Should we do this deliberately, on a large scale?
https://www.onepercentbrighter.com/p/natural-experiments-prove-feeding
'We have many good reasons to think adding nutrients to the ocean is safe, and very good reasons to believe allowing climate change to run on unchallenged is unsafe. The only thing holding us back is a kind of ideological commitment to the idea that human beings always only get everything wrong, while the random acts of geology are by definition “natural” and therefore good. That’s an ideological argument, not a scientific one.'
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