Spreading iron particles over the surface of the earth's oceans would lead to an increase in phytoplankton, decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and thereby counteracting the greenhouse effect. ███ █████ █████████████ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███ ████ ███████ ██ ██ ████████████ ████████ ████ ███ ██ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ██████ █████████ ████ ██ █████████ █████████ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██████ ███ ██ ███████████ ████████████
Despite the potential benefits, the author concludes that we should wait before spreading iron over the ocean to stop global warming. Why? The ocean is an important resource, and we don’t know what effects spreading iron might have.
The author concludes that we should wait to implement a potential solution to global warming, but her only evidence is that we don’t yet know what the full effects on an important resource would be. The author is assuming that we shouldn’t alter these resources without knowing the full effects, so we’re looking for a conditional statement to explicitly state this rule:
If you don’t know what the effects would be, then you shouldn’t alter an important resource.
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