alt Hacker NewsIt really does seem like it’s going to be impossible to stop rich lunatics from having a go at geoengineering instead of just actually helping to slash emissions.
Pretty embarrassing overall for the species.
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> just actually helping to slash emissions
The word just here hides a lot of complexity and difficult tradeoffs.
What do you suppose is the net worth of the people spearheading efforts in solar power and electric vehicles?
I mean, we're already having democratized geoengineering: Make Sunsets (https://makesunsets.com/) allows you or anyone else to fund deploying high-altitude clouds for geocooling.
Don't know what rich assholes have to do with it, when all things I've seen proposed hurt poor people the most. Make meat unaffordable, make private transportation unaffordable, make travelling by plane unaffordable, make new clothes unaffordable, and the list goes on forever.
Cut carbon emissions to zero tomorrow and we’re still in a great deal of trouble. Earth is a lagging system and the damage has been done 10 times over.
I don’t blame anyone for looking at radical solutions. We’re not putting out the fire by putting the wood back in a pile.