Comment by TacticalCoder
1 day ago
If things get really unsustainable, I'm talking about a sizeable percentage of the world's population dying because of heatwaves, shall we see desperate measure being taken?
For example some scientists suggested installing sunshades but... Literally a sunshade: deploying an umbrella of sort, in space, so that less heat reaches the heart.
Now of course as we've been ruled by luminaries since decades, bringing us to the situation we're in now, I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to fuck up that too: for example by fuxxoring the sunshade and killing another sizeable percentage of the population by creating a new ice age.
But really I wonder: at what tipping point shall desperate measures be taken to try to fix things and what could those be? That sunshade doesn't seem that crazy or is it?
> I'm talking about a sizeable percentage of the world's population dying because of heatwaves, shall we see desperate measure being taken?
At that point, won't it be too late?
Funding was proposed by Congress during the Biden administration but didn't get a lot of press at the time
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/01/white-house-cautiou...
Cloud cover to raise the Earth's albedo can be done by a smaller independent team, vs needing the whole world to agree to stop polluting.
Large scale ecosystem modifications run huge risks of unintended consequences.
Due to the chaotic nature of these systems we are incapable of predicting the effect of our actions.
It could very well be that by artificially increasing cloud cover we cross a different tipping point with grave consequences (e.g. flooding, ecosystem collapse from lack of sunlight, or who knows what)