[aporetics]

Read Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Under A White Sky” for a history of how best-intentioned interventions into ecologies have consistently backfired, in each case the unpredictable and far reaching complexity of the system was thrown out of balance.

I think the commenter’s admonition may have been expressing the the same lesson: its hubristic to “fix” systems with hacks like this; whereas carbon drawdown is not a hack, because it operates within the mechanism of imbalance itself.

For my part, this article had so little reporting of the complexity of ocean ecosystems and the potential dangers, not to mention how it buried the bit about how carbon intensive lye is (the same reason that makes concrete have such a huge carbon footprint) that it read like a puff piece.