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… how to best deploy the last-ditch global warming fix…
Trust me: as the decades go on and things get increasingly worse, more and more desperate measures will be tried. This is hardly “last-ditch”.
It's the last ditch of things we can do other than actually becoming carbon neutral, which apparently no one is willing to go for.
"Sunlight is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal sunlight supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring sunlight a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to sunlight. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that sunlight is stuff like any other stuff, and like any other stuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it's better to give stuff a value so that we're all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this sunlight, and there are many different possibilities there." - that Nestle CEO, probably.
As I was reading that, I was thinking Nestlé, I wasn't disappointed LOL!
Translation:
We see that people are using more solar energy than we'd like, and we want to control that
We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was us that scorched the sky.
Trying to block the sun from your own private aircraft carrier is proper Bond villain territory. At least tech CEOs don't look like Bond villains, oh hold on...
Now where have I seen that before...
Also...
Or snow piercer.