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1. Spaceship earth is heating up and some parts are dying as a result. Someone wants to develop a new technology to cool those parts down. If there was no risk of permanent damage (the technology involves lofting sprays of ocean water), would there still be opposition?

2. Developing technologies for weather control should be avoided because they could lead to conflicts of interest. Can't the same argument be made around any technology?

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as they are introducing moisture into a loud in theory they could impact where the cloud releases its precipitation. This could be used for great economic gain to increase growing seasons by expanding wet season of an area. But this would be at the cost of surrounding areas that would get that rain instead. For many areas of Australia that get wildfires it might not be initially apparent if altering where it rains but then could have a delayed impact of years before true consequences known so while they should proceed with the research they should be mindful of the side effects.

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