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Turns out all we may need to stop climate change is 139 billion gallons of super-duper white paint
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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Yes, any high-tech barely tested solution rather than change our life-destroying habits please!
As far as untested tech solutions to climate change go, I'll gladly take artificial albedo over the "let's blot out the sun" that they've been floating the last few years.
Orbital mirrors. Artificial mangrove islands covering the southern Atlantic. Algae bioreactors in every commercial building.
There's lots of things to try, and... Ones a hell of a lot easier to throttle or reverse, and don't involve making the air more toxic for humans by nature.
Can we please start trying things, but not the one hard to stop where we purposely pollute the skies?
I mean you have people frothing from their mouths with indiscriminate hate against the booming space industry for maybe valid or not so valid reasons.
If people really cared about the climate crisis, they be supporting this type of industry moving in a, maybe less than ideologically pure, but nonetheless positive direction instead of playing it down or mocking their spearheads.
People will say that yes, they can complain and story at the same time but that's the thing: if you truly and whole-wheat believe that we as a species don't have much time on the climate clock, you should dedicate your effort en masse towards it. Because if you think it's not worth it to go all in on it, then what was the worry in the first place?
All in all, setting giant reflector mirrors in orbit, building them and controlling them would be a very fast way to benefit from that type of industry.
If you need to build them, they need to be cheap. Sending mass from down here is costly but getting cheaper.
Less expensive if we get to build it from orbit itself. Even more if we mine the materials from the moon surface.
There is ways to ease out the energy requirements. There is thorium and hydrogen on the moon.
Maybe after all it's just a big virtue signaling campaign from people less than inclined to actually do something justifying themselves with the "I'm just one person, I can't actually do anything about it" mentality.
Or they just want us as a species to fail.
i mean, what's a more realistic solution? a small group that finds a high-tech development which can help us, or getting the majority of humanity to cooperate on what should be an obvious and necessary goal?
my bet's on the tech, at least with A.I. assisted research.
something has eroded my optimism towards the reliable and cooperative nature of our species. if we're putting our money on that, i consider us all doomed.
I don't care about high tech solutions, because we already have the solutions.
We figured out high density housing that still maintains greenspace in the 60s and the first commercial nuclear reactors started taking off in the 70s. Since then the last 50 years have basically just been fucking around as far as the climate is concerned.
Not only that, actively damaging the cause by forbidding or fighting against the very things that would help us kickstart the cleanup and pave the way