At least on some level, except that the premise is still pretty apocalyptic, because otherwise regular stockpiles would make infinitely more sense. But then there’s also the terraforming Mars nonsense… It makes me suspect someone decided it would be fun to do a thought experiment about storage on the Moon and everything else is this awkward failure to justify it.
The thing is, if it got that bad, we’d not be in any real position to do anything about it anyways. We’d not be able to do much of anything after that kind of collapse, and it’s infinitely easier to deal with ecological collapse before it happens rather than try to reverse it, afterwards (even if your whole society hasn’t fallen apart as a consequence of it).
All these fantasies about letting climate change run unimpeded and then reversing both it and the total collapse of the environment which allows our current civilization to exist, fill me with dread, as they’re all about brainwashing us into allowing the irreversible to happen, while pretending it’s reversible.
