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Alice: Looks like there is a wasp nest under the roof, we need to do something about it

Bob: Let's blow it up with dynamite!

When thinking about terraforming people tend to think of megaprojects that would "fix" everything at once, but that doesn't work.

There are much more predictable and safer ways to do terraforming, e.g. desalinating water, building canals, planting forests, ferilizing ocean in the worst case.



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