The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
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The likelihood of unilateral solar geoengineering
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#2Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
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#3Let's hope these technocrat degenerates never come to that.
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#4"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun."
- Morpheus, The Matrix
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#5Dimming the sun is like the alcoholic proudly proclaiming they'll be eating salads for lunch. It ain't solving the actual problem.
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#6Doesn’t Elon Musk have the means and the cult like following to do this unimpeded?
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#7"If your solution closely follows the story line of the Simpsons, perhaps reconsider"
– The Simpson Solution Axiom
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#8It's amazing that this solution has not been considered more openly and widely until now. It's cheaper, more effective, and doesn't require draconian regulations or near-impossible expectations on human behavior.
It's also something that could be tested for a year. It's not irreversible. It would allow the undeveloped world a chance to achieve a piece of the global wealth pie.
Why are so many people (especially environmentalists and climate scientists) so opposed to this solution?
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#9It's amazing that this solution has not been considered more openly and widely until now. It's cheaper, more effective, and doesn't require draconian regulations or near-impossible expectations on human behavior. It's also something that could be tested for a year. It's not irreversible. It would allow the undeveloped world a chance to achieve a piece of the global wealth pie. Why are so many people (especially envir…
Because warming is just one symptom of the core problem, which is pollution.
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#10Are there ways this could be done with rapidly biodegradable materials, such that e.g. it would need to be continually done year after year or else the sky would return to the exact same state it was in before?
Also, living in Arizona with 120F/49C summers, I sure wish someone could come up with some geography-wide sunshade!
I guess that will need to be after they stop growing the city forever, and stop paving the earth of my state with black asphalt and concrete, and stop giving all our groundwater to lettuce and alfalfa farming to be sent out of the state or country entirely.