[battery_glasses]

Why does that seem crazy to you? Some artificial interventions in the earth's natural processes are bad for humans (global warming, increased rate of desertification) and some interventions are good for humans (increasing land available for sustainable food production, killing malaria carrying mosquitos).

There isn't some "human interventions good/human interventions bad" duality. Some are good some are bad. We should stop doing to bad things and do more of the good things. We should continuously audit for new effects caused by our actions are adjust accordingly to achieve the best outcomes for human life.

[glenstein]

Exactly this. I think we have to wrestle with the fact that, as consumers of media, we sometimes become possessed by Trick Question Syndrome. So even if nothing about the facts indicates than an intervention is bad, treating it like at trick question feels like healthy skepticism.