Geoengineering isnt necessarily bad. Like they've done artificial extensions to coral reefs to maintain them in the face of sea level and ocean acidity. However, it would really only work in conjuction with a massive reduction in carbon output (something capitalism seems incapable of). And so if we get desperate enough to try large scale solar geoengineering, not only is it a geopolitical nightmare to enact, but it could cause unforeseen side effects around the world.
"The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period." -Bush the Elder at 1992 Earth Summit, but the de facto stance of every president since Carter the Pious told folks to wear a sweater for chrissake and lost his reelection
This is a pretty popular take, but is there really any reason solar geoengineering wouldn’t work?
It would. Dimming is cheap, and only takes powdered chalk.
China + India + Africa need to nukeshare and begin global dimming, IMO. That's the only way to force the light-starved West to confront the problem. Since heating only helps the north, but dimming hits them where they're already hurting--low sunlight.
Of course, that would mean global race war. Hence the nukesharing.
I guess it’s too much to hope we could just coordinate and dim as much as needed to reach pre-industrial levels of heat?
The point of dimming would be putting the onus on the West. Dimming alone is not a solution, because it doesn't kill the CO2 problem. Dimming just turns the problem of rising temps into a problem of darkening skies.
Whites don't care about heat because it helps them.
Whites WILL care about dimming because they're already at the edge of habitability. Any darker and their crops all die. Equatorial plants would be mostly fine.
Of course this will also have blowback effects on a few Southern countries that are food insecure and depend on the North. But it's a lot better than making the entire South a desert
there will probably be a desperate attempt at geoengineering by the superrich at some point and it will probably make things worse
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Geoengineering isnt necessarily bad. Like they've done artificial extensions to coral reefs to maintain them in the face of sea level and ocean acidity. However, it would really only work in conjuction with a massive reduction in carbon output (something capitalism seems incapable of). And so if we get desperate enough to try large scale solar geoengineering, not only is it a geopolitical nightmare to enact, but it could cause unforeseen side effects around the world.
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the thing that fucks with me the most is how easy it would have been to stop climate change all together like 20 years ago.
"The American way of life is not up for negotiations. Period." -Bush the Elder at 1992 Earth Summit, but the de facto stance of every president since Carter the Pious told folks to wear a sweater for chrissake and lost his reelection
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It would. Dimming is cheap, and only takes powdered chalk.
China + India + Africa need to nukeshare and begin global dimming, IMO. That's the only way to force the light-starved West to confront the problem. Since heating only helps the north, but dimming hits them where they're already hurting--low sunlight.
Of course, that would mean global race war. Hence the nukesharing.
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The point of dimming would be putting the onus on the West. Dimming alone is not a solution, because it doesn't kill the CO2 problem. Dimming just turns the problem of rising temps into a problem of darkening skies.
Whites don't care about heat because it helps them.
Whites WILL care about dimming because they're already at the edge of habitability. Any darker and their crops all die. Equatorial plants would be mostly fine.
Of course this will also have blowback effects on a few Southern countries that are food insecure and depend on the North. But it's a lot better than making the entire South a desert
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