Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
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@sundogplanets @nullagent the same idea is a critical plot point in "Souls in the Great Machine" by Sean McMullen. Really great series of books.
@sundogplanets "If we kill all of the crops & starve all humans, CO2 production will decrease!"
Their collective brain mass is just large enough to fit on a microscope slide.
"a key threshold [has] already been crossed. Humanity [has] gained the power to turn down the sun, and barely anyone on the planet even [knows]."
Nearly 20 years ago now, there was a piece critiquing another sulfate aerosol scheme.
It was entitled "Can Dr. Evil Save The World?".
Evidently, the venture capitalists concerned have learned nothing.
@sundogplanets glitter will be the end of us all
@sundogplanets
I am now wondering if Termination Shock happened, in a small way, during Covid lock down when suddenly the aeroplanes stopped flying, and we all sat outside in our gardens enjoying a very warm year of nothing else to do?
@sundogplanets I think of this every time this comes up:
"We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. "
- Morpheus, The Matrix
Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/
Prof. Lawler, are the giant data centers pumping tons of water vapor into the atmosphere, geoengineering projects?
@sundogplanets I say if they want to go work capitalism on the surface of the sun, we let them
Can't believe we're at "The solution to polluting the atmosphere is more pollution of a different type."
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