Good luck with that 96% carbondioxide atmosphere chief

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Like it's literally impossible even if we had a warp drive or whatever and could build the shit on Mars without the logistics of getting there.

    Also how the fuck you gonna terraform Mars when you can't even terraform Earth? Do they just think consumption of nature and humanity is terraforming? I got news for you, there's none of that on Mars.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Right? If terraforming was possible, climate change would be irrelevant. Just reverse it using the same technology.

      • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I wouldn't call it totally impossible, just impossible under capitalism. Terraforming isn't a good solution for climate change though, it's too slow to reverse the massive damage we've already done. In order to reverse climate change we simply need to cease CO2 producing activities. Any terraforming we'd do would just produce more CO2 than it could absorb.

        Terraforming is typically thought of as occurring over much longer time scales, like centuries to millennia. It takes a communist society to commit to a project like this where there is no immediate short term profit. Terraforming Mars is an admirable goal to have, but only after we get our shit together here on Earth.

        • TheCaconym [any]
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          4 years ago

          In order to reverse climate change we simply need to cease CO2 producing activities

          That is likely too late to work as many feedback loops are likely to have already been triggered, or will be due to the eventual heating from the CO2 we already emitted.

          • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah there's definitely a ton of damage baked in. I guess by reverse, I really meant to say eventually stop. It'll take time for the temperature to stop rising even after we quit pouring CO2 into the atmosphere. But still, that is pretty much the only tool we have beyond something drastic like filling the upper atmosphere with light reflecting particulates.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I'm not saying it's impossible, but you can't have it in an economic mode of production that requires the destruction of nature to function.