There may be a hidden downside to volcanic eruption as you say, but I can't think of it.

Inside a volcano, there's a hidden downside but you can't read it.

Aren't there people proposing somehow starting volcanoes as a response to climate change because it seems easier than getting Americans to drive less stupid cars?

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I imagine a volcanologist saying "5 TERAgrams" in a Dr. Evil voice.
I just spent a ridiculous amount of money rebuilding the garden beds for my tomatoes so I'll be pissed if they have a bad growing season.

To be fair, "5 megatonnes" would sound even scarier.

Volcanic ash is super fertile. Just chill and wait for next summer.

A fair percentage of the Caribbean's marijuana crop used to grow on the slopes of that volcano. The industry was just legalized there and now its probably mostly destroyed.

Apparently, I need a pumice stone. I feel stupid buying a grooming rock, but if one crashes down near me I'll get it.

8: There's a whole thing.

I had to know more about the volcanologist Verity Flower: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/verity-flower-uses-satellite-data-to-study-volcanoes

Also animated satellite pictures.

11: I was also curious about her, and that quilt is pretty amazing.

13: Of course no Mercator projection on a vulcanologist's quilt.

The precedent is Montserrat, which lost 2/3 of its habitable area to a volcano in the 1990s.

Montserrat had the advantage of being a British Overseas Territory and having access to the funding that goes with it. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is independent, so its not clear what will fund the recovery besides World Bank debt.

Maybe Mount Tambora is the precedent.

WHAT ARE WE, CHOPPED VIRGIN?

My parents lived on Bequia for a while. I never visited, so I don't know what the geography is like ( other than that it's a volcanic island) and how badly it's likely to be affected compared to St. Vincent.

3: Aren't there people proposing somehow starting volcanoes as a response to climate change because it seems easier than getting Americans to drive less stupid cars?

Probably after they visited Houston..

15. The other precedent is Tristan da Cunha, which is also a BOT. When that blew in1961, they evacuated the entire island (easier than it sounds - the population is about 260). The British government put enormous pressure on them not to go back, but they insisted, so there they sit, waiting for the next eruption.