Geoengineering

An interesting article I just read from the NY Times Online. I often wondered about this concept because it seems like the things that humans can do to stop global warming are in fact things to reduce things like harmful emissions or carbon footprint rather than actually reversing what is happening to the environment. Do you see what I'm saying? On the one hand you can look at it like slowing down what is already happening -- sort of like doing things for example to keep yourself healthy and slow the aging process by eating healthier and exercising etc. These things will hypothetically slow down the aging process but will not actually reverse it. You will not actually get younger doing these things. I think of the geoengineering principle as a concept that could help reverse the global warming situation, in fact improve it rather than slow it down. The article makes a great point in that if this is possible then the current efforts to help slow down global warming might not be met with as much enthusiasm if geoengineering or a way to actually reverse the process actually existed. Go back to the aging analogy. If people knew there was something that they could do to actually make them younger would they care as much as they would about slowing down the aging process if they knew a reversible method existed? I think that geoengineering should be pursued however it should carefully be told to the public that this will not be a panacea and that conservation and energy reduction efforts should still be at the forefront of the human endeavor to fix the global warming problem.