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Pero culpar a la geoingeniería de esto, dice Myhrvold, es como culpar a un cardiocirujano de salvar la vida de alguien que no hace ejercicio y come demasiadas patatas fritas.
But blaming geoengineering for this, Myhrvold says, is like blaming a heart surgeon for saving the life of someone who fails to exercise and eats too many french fries.
Imaginen a un cardiocirujano famoso que mantiene una actitud emocionalmente tan distante que no sólo evidencia una falta de compasión hacia sus pacientes sino que a veces llega a tratarles de un modo manifiestamente despectivo. Cierto día, mientras hacía su ronda diaria acompañado de sus alumnos, los médicos en prácticas, dijo a un paciente gravemente enfermo al que acababa de operar (un hombre que había intentado suicidarse lanzándose desde la ventana de un quinto piso) que, la próxima vez que quisiera castigarse, tratase de aprender a jugar al golf, provocando su angustia y desesperación entre las risas contenidas de sus discípulos.
Imagine a doctor, a successful heart surgeon, who is emotionally detached from his patients. Not only is he lacking in compassion, but he is also quite dismissive, even disdainful of them and their feelings. A few days ago he operated on a man who had jumped out of a fifth-floor window in a suicide attempt and seriously injured himself. Now, in front of his students, all medical residents, the surgeon tells the patient that if he wanted to punish himself, he would have done better to take up golf. The students laugh—but the patient’s face reveals his anguish and despair.
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