Nah, the debris cloud would be too disparate. It wouldn't even stop ICBMs because they don't spend enough time on their suborbital trajectory to have a high chance of getting hit. The risk of Kessler syndrome mainly comes in when you have a craft in a low Earth parking orbit for a long enough time to have significant risk of getting hit. So light would have no problem getting through.
What you want is an orbital sunshade. Make a giant reflective thin sheet of material big enough to block the appropriate amount of light, and place it in the L1 lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun. I'm not sure if the effort it would take to do this is more or less than the effort it would take to stop emitting so much CO2, but I'd guess it's more. It does become an appealing option in the future once we are already way past the point of no return and need to urgently stop any sunlight we can.
If we did it right now we'd only need to block 2 percent of sunlight to delay global warming enough to give us a chance of reducing emissions without significant changes to the capitalist mode of production. Two percent probably ain't too noticeable, but I'm sure it'd have some considerable side effects on ecosystems as plants need to deal with less light.
Obviously the longer we do nothing about it, the more sunlight we'd need to block eventually, and that's the thought that gets pretty fucking grim. You ever see the animatrix?
https://youtu.be/WlRMLZRBq6U?t=62
"May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins."
Can we balance the Kessler effect on purpose to reflect enough sunlight to counter global warming?
i feel like we'd have a better chance nuking our crust until we have a global nuclear winter
Snowpiercer here I come
Nah, the debris cloud would be too disparate. It wouldn't even stop ICBMs because they don't spend enough time on their suborbital trajectory to have a high chance of getting hit. The risk of Kessler syndrome mainly comes in when you have a craft in a low Earth parking orbit for a long enough time to have significant risk of getting hit. So light would have no problem getting through.
What you want is an orbital sunshade. Make a giant reflective thin sheet of material big enough to block the appropriate amount of light, and place it in the L1 lagrange point between the Earth and the Sun. I'm not sure if the effort it would take to do this is more or less than the effort it would take to stop emitting so much CO2, but I'd guess it's more. It does become an appealing option in the future once we are already way past the point of no return and need to urgently stop any sunlight we can.
Gonna be looking forward to living in eternal darkness because :capitalist: can stop this any time but won't because :stonks-down:
If we did it right now we'd only need to block 2 percent of sunlight to delay global warming enough to give us a chance of reducing emissions without significant changes to the capitalist mode of production. Two percent probably ain't too noticeable, but I'm sure it'd have some considerable side effects on ecosystems as plants need to deal with less light.
Obviously the longer we do nothing about it, the more sunlight we'd need to block eventually, and that's the thought that gets pretty fucking grim. You ever see the animatrix?
https://youtu.be/WlRMLZRBq6U?t=62
"May there be mercy on man and machine for their sins."