• Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Dude sucks for sure, but real talk: I think when the seas rise and the food gets scarce and there’s no way we can avoid doing something, the powers that be will resort to some kind of geo-engineering BS. It’ll be a coin flip if that kills all of us

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      9 hours ago

      Yes, but there are far easier and cheaper ways to go. Dude must have just read about using things from space to control sunlight input and thought he’s such a genius surely he can figure it out. I guess he skipped over all the debunking that such ideas get.

      And crucially, once we jump on the geoengineering train, we better not stop. It will only slow things and buy more time, but if we stop after beginning, the spike will be catastrophic (probably, there’s still so much we learn, but it won’t be a solution). But we will go that route, because economic health is far more important than anything else, and never plateaus by its very nature. There must be growth, or it all crashes down.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah but can we not give the control of the entire planet’s climate to Elon Musk’s AI?

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      8 hours ago

      Stop polluting and plant trees.

      Rocketing giant mirrors is not only stupid but also temporary.

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        8 hours ago

        You are not wrong, though everything is temporary. That is not a reason to not try and develop new technologies and methods to solve problems.

        The error is in the focus; we have some tested and tried methods we should apply before we work on the far future stuff, indeed.

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          8 hours ago

          There was never any need for any rocket science. Stop Oil, move to renewables, go vegetarianish. We have all of that now. We’ve had most of it for decades.

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            5 hours ago

            By that logic there is pretty much no need for anything in modern society. Heck, no need for humans to exist at all. Yet here we are, innovation is in our DNA. Better to be real about it.

            • Optional@lemmy.world
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              5 hours ago

              That’s your logic? Goddamn.

              First of all, define “being”.
              Then define “real”.
              And lastly, define “it”.

              It seems like you might have skipped a few steps.