WASHINGTON DC – Surprise: It’d actually be much cheaper to artificially change the world’s climate than you probably think. So cheap, in fact, that one scientist believes that some countries might soon geoengineer the planet in response to climate change.

Kate Ricke, a climate scientist and researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told Wired that since geoengineering is actually so affordable, countries will inevitably choose to do it. However, the consequences of doing so might be — well, complicated.

“I just have a hard time seeing with the economics of it how it doesn’t happen,” Ricke told the magazine. “To me, that means that it’s really urgent to do more research.”

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