To be fair, a couple decades of temporary mitigation would save hundreds of millions of lives if (and only if) we also cut emissions and pollution enough to prevent human extinction.
It is absolutely used by politicians, corporations, and people in general as an excuse to continue poisoning the planet, but the information the research produces could help.
https://youtu.be/6cjx4gJFME0
To be fair, a couple decades of temporary mitigation would save hundreds of millions of lives if (and only if) we also cut emissions and pollution enough to prevent human extinction.
It is absolutely used by politicians, corporations, and people in general as an excuse to continue poisoning the planet, but the information the research produces could help.
We cannot know that. There are too many unintended consequences on too many levels, that derive from geoengineering.