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And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
Greenhouses and vertical farms would make the famine less severe; although our population is so high that it would get complicated fast
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Greenhouses and vertical farms would make the famine less severe; although our population is so high that it would get complicated fast
How many of these vertical farms do we have? How long do they take to build? What do they cost to run?
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Greenhouses and vertical farms would make the famine less severe; although our population is so high that it would get complicated fast
How many of these vertical farms do we have? How long do they take to build? What do they cost to run?
It would be expensive, but the alternative would be burning cities and food riots. I can hardly imagine the USA avoiding a civil war considering how divisive and hostile things already have gotten
You can get hydroponics going fairly quickly, the bottleneck would be the supplies and supply chain — materials to build the with
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How interesting that a bunch of tech nutcases now want to geoengineer the planet by dispersing sulphur into the stratosphere to dim the sun to 'tackle' climate change. Mind-blowing stupidity.
Because gradually injecting sulfur is the same as massive uncontrolled natural injections, right?
And nothing prevents new volcanic explosions from doing this again. How would the northern world deal with this today? Not that well.
How interesting that a bunch of tech nutcases now want to geoengineer the planet by dispersing sulphur into the stratosphere to dim the sun to 'tackle' climate change. Mind-blowing stupidity.
Because gradually injecting sulfur is the same as massive uncontrolled natural injections, right?
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Because gradually injecting sulfur is the same as massive uncontrolled natural injections, right?
Nobody knows. Which is why it's colossally reckless to propose anything around this as a guaranteed solution, instead of a proposal that needs more research.
The real sticking point would be that some countries would not want the cooling. Russia, say.