Scientists performing miracles is caring for the planet in the same way doctors providing saline is caring for blood loss. It's important, it helps, and I'm glad we're doing it, but sometimes you gotta address the bleeding first.

I'm not arguing for degrowth, nor am I discrediting the work of science. I'm observing humanity has failed to have a constructive conversation around climate change, leading to the necessity of solutions like this.

I have no idea what the solution is, I've already admitted it's complex. But it's frightening that the conversation immediately devolves into assumptions about one's stance, and immediate disagreement with that stance. Even on a website like HN. That's a big problem, no?

Scientists have been doing things (with good intentions) which initially look like great ideas but ultimately cause new/greater problems in the future for ages.

To f with nature and believe the full impact is understood in advance is human hubris.

> Scientists "performing miracles" is humanity caring for the planet.

Scientists "performing miracles" is one of the ways humanity is caring for the planet.

Depends. Do we know the ecosystem impact of corals that are more heat tolerant? Do we understand the evolutionary biological reasons why they aren't? Maybe it's not a problem, or maybe it is, like with so many other things we've messed with in the name of acceptable science (at the time) until we realize ecosystems are not that simple to model.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do research like this. But it is not an automatic good, and it must go hand in hand with proper biological field work looked at from an evolutionary lens. Or we risk making things worse with our good intentions.

A banal false dichotomy. Pushing for lower CO2 methods of energy generation and transport is not "degrowth".

Feels like a convenient way for you to give up your own responsibility to the planet to justify not changing your impact.

I'm not saying this is you alone. We all do this, but this comment is particularly egregious for it.