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In addition to actual reporting, the NYT creates newslike ads for the fossil fuels industry. This results in disproportionate attention on high-risk approaches that involve anything other than phasing out fossil fuel use.
- Chemical Wonka ( @chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ) English18•2 months ago
It is easier to think about blocking the sun than to overcome capitalism that is destroying the planet
Capitalist Realism in its essence
We’re doomed
- witty_username ( @witty_username@feddit.nl ) 15•2 months ago
This petro puppet proposes perverse pseudoscientific prattle
- OfCourseNot ( @OfCourseNot@fedia.io ) 4•2 months ago
That’s a really neat alliteration! And also very true!
- acargitz ( @theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 14•2 months ago
Wouldn’t cutting down emissions be less precarious, easier to implement gradually, less unpredictable, more economically feasible in the long run, and less risky to fall on our heads?
All of those except that it means less profits for the people who own big oil.
- RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) 13•2 months ago
Hey, I’ve seen this one
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months ago
Say the line Bart!
Sigh Simpsons did it
YAAAAAAAAY!
- vegafjord ( @vegafjord@discuss.online ) 7•2 months ago
Delusional, just insane.
Technology will not save us, but guillotines will.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 5•2 months ago
?
Global warming is nothing but a math equation at the end of the day. Change the input value, change the result.
The real problem is what you do with all the snakes after they eat the mice.
- vegafjord ( @vegafjord@discuss.online ) 2•2 months ago
Earth isnt a machine, we cant just fix it like a broken machine. Earth is a body with a fever due to CO2 intoxication. We need to let Earth lash itself back into wellbeing, without our invasive engripments.
It’s a bit more than a math equation; things like how much ice there is are meaningfully path dependent. Just dropping CO2 concentrations won’t get us back the world we had.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 1•2 months ago
That’s just another part of the equation.
- Nasan ( @Nasan@sopuli.xyz ) 3•2 months ago
Guillotines are technology, laser guillotines are what we should be developing.
- ShaunaTheDead ( @ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io ) 7•2 months ago
Blocking the sun is not a practical solution. Putting something up in the atmosphere is untested and super dangerous. It could cause all life on Earth to die out like the Matrix.
Physically blocking the sun is also practically impossible. It requires that we put an object in space in a Lagrange point (gravitationally stable points around Earth) which is very far away and the sun shield would have to be approximately the size of Brazil. Launching that much material into space and getting it into position, and then unfurling it would be a HUUUUUUGE undertaking the likes of which we have never seen. Plus, launching all those rockets, mining the materials, etc, would emit so many tonnes of green house gasses that by the time we actually did it we might be in an even worse position.
- aaaaace ( @aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•2 months ago
Far safer to bump earth’s orbit a notch or two further out.
And while we’re at it, adjust the axis tilt a bit.
Let Musk handle it.
- mysticpickle ( @mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 months ago
- zqwzzle ( @zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ) English5•2 months ago
Blocking the sun and letting the AI overthrow us? Sounds like a plan.
- HEXN3T ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•2 months ago
I have a great idea on how to block the sun!
They’re called trees.
Oh they help, but at scale, they help by removing CO2 from the atmosphere. You just can’t actually increase the forested area by enough to fully offset the damage we’re doing
- HEXN3T ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•2 months ago
We should focus on planting trees in downtown areas with sprawling pavement acting as giant radiators.
That’s a completely reasonable adaptation measure.
- BigMacHole ( @BigMacHole@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
This is MUCH EASIER then just not giving CEOS Taxpayer Dollars to Continue Polluting and Killing Us!
- Spacehooks ( @Spacehooks@reddthat.com ) English3•2 months ago
Someone check if the scientist is a vampire or part of the thrall.
- celeste ( @celeste@kbin.earth ) 2•2 months ago
Picture looks like he came up with the idea in time-out corner.
- schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemm.ee ) English0•2 months ago
Isn’t that what an umbrella is for?
At an individual level, yes.
- schizoidman ( @schizoidman@lemm.ee ) English0•2 months ago
Then we need umbrellas for all to solve climate change /s