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The amount of energy and land required for this plan, and keeping in mind that most of that area is in conflict zones or less than stable. Also there's potential impact to deep sea habitats (that are still very mysterious). Good job thinking outside the box, but I don't think this is viable.

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The article is about plate tectonics, not geoengineering.

It suggests that replicating the nature process can have the desired effect. Though perhaps that implication is less pronounced without the title (and the author may have had no control over that) so point taken.

There's absolutely nothing about replicating the natural tectonic process in the article.

The combination of the title and phrases like "simulations using a mid-latitude climate couldn’t get the job done because the rocks didn’t weather fast enough" did make me think initially that they were proposing using this as geoengineering to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere.

(But yes, that's not what they're saying. And my guess is it wouldn't be anywhere near worth it.)

Next in line for clickbait titles: "A Mexican recipe for pest control: hurl a mountain-sized space rock into Yucatan."

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