This is a very nice op-ed on climate that points out two obvious things on one else talks about: the heating will get worse no matter how much we cut emissions, and geoengineering (messing with the atmosphere to reflect sunlight) will become more appealinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-geoengineering.html …
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My own best case is that nature does us a solid and blows up a volcano or two, giving us a few more years to coordinate on global decarbonization. Or maybe does us a real favor and blows up a megavolcano, solving the problem more directly. The survivors can use all oil they want!
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1970s: sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere is killing our planet 2020s: we must put all the sulfur dioxide we can in the atmosphere to save our planet
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Two available pathways to global cooling by 2100: 1) global coordination on moving the industrial economy off of fossil fuels and cement, with huge transfers of money to the developing world from richer nations 2) nuke a volcano What seems like the more American solution?
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Alternative framing of this same point (inspired by the trillion-dollar coin): as the world we live in gets stupider, ridiculous solutions begin to look smarter
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I feel a strange tingling in my vaccine injection spot, but I got to say, United World Government sounds like a swell idea!
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