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Yes. I agree with that.

I'm not a huge fan of atmospheric manipulation vs. orbital engineering. I think there's a weird mental block for many people where a massive earth-based project seems more feasible than doing something that is probably no more resource intensive off-planet.

Space-based solar is probably still years away because we would need to assemble in-situ on Earth trojans or other asteroids, and then propel the materials to the lagrange point. But backing off the global temperature ten to twenty years from now and gaining control over solar input to our planet seems like a better idea than messing with the atmosphere.