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Well fuck... I guess one way or another our lifestyles will have to change. Either by severe action to mitigate climate change, or by the impending climate catastrophes things are going to be unpleasant.
We're too stubborn. We're gonna throw shit into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight.
~~We're~~ Corporations are too stubborn. ~~We're~~ They are gonna throw shit into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight.
FTFY
I mean I think it's cool as shit if it works. It'd be pretty lit if we managed to fuck up so badly and avoid murdering a bunch of poors to fix it.
Just wait: they’ll declare it an emergency and then authorize space slaves, working ‘round the clock to build it. Yes, they’ll be the poors, and their bodies will probably be deemed “too dangerous to remove” from the dome, so we’ll basically end up shielding the earth with the bodies of those poor people.
Mark my words. I honestly don’t believe this is at all far from being possible, if such technology ended up existing.
And that’s when the farm workers will suddenly be paid well and protected somewhat, because it’ll turn into a bunch of private university educated white kids taking “gap years.”
"We engineered the space suits our workers will use out of a UV-reflective material, so we don't even need to recovery the bodies!"
That's too expensive and it works really be cheaper just to automate it
I've been saying for two years now that you cannot convince me that there isn't a ready made contingency plan somewhere in the White House that involves using modified nuclear weapons to facilitate a mini nuclear winter, to counteract greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm saving my bottlecaps.
Really we just need a relatively cheap (and relatively non-toxic) chemical that's more reflective than our atmosphere.
yeah either by sever action years ago or by things being unpleasant. With sever action now making things less unpleasant than they otherwise could be.