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Raison d'État 3 weeks ago
Solar shield? Like, with stratospheric sulphate aerosols? Doesn't that run afoul of the "Meatloaf Principle" for the Left, and the "Playing God" approbium on the Right? Reversing anthropogenic forcing at the price of three extra cloudy days a year sounds good to me, though, I must admit. With bonus fuel lubricity from the sulphur leading to longer jet engine life. We'd need to nuke Davos first to avoid needing to beg for permission. Davos, and the screechy BANANA harridans of Reddit.
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Raison d'État 3 weeks ago
There's the Meatloaf principle in action. We could fix the problem now, with a technology that works and that comes with five decades of data on its downstream effects. But instead, lets do nothing but share pie-in-the-sky dreams of technologies that don't exist (and likely can't without "new physics"). Humanity hasn't suffered enough yet. We'll know when they have
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