@sundogplanets Isn't this also similar to Snowpiercer? Do not want...

@sundogplanets Isn't this also similar to Snowpiercer? Do not want...

@sundogplanets Well, fuck 😑

@sundogplanets @markhurst

This calculation is so familiar: acknowledge but immediately brush off the prospect of harm to some, outweighed by the benefit to others.

“There would be some winners and some losers. But in general, some amount of ... stratospheric aerosol injection would likely benefit a whole lot of people, probably most people”

@sundogplanets That's also the plot of the last episode of "Dinosaurs".

@sundogplanets That's the one with the sulfur rockets, right?

@sundogplanets Or watch Snowpiercer

@sundogplanets weather engineering is also in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future.

@sundogplanets Men will literally blot out the sun rather than go to therapy...I mean, cut back on carbon emissions.

@sundogplanets I remember reading Stuart Brand's book about this stuff a few years ago and thinking that the use of aerosols to reduce solar radiation was cheap enough to do that a billionaire could just do it, and there wouldn't be anything anyone could do about it.

@sundogplanets

Yedvab is a colossal goddamn maniac.

And why is every rich person also insane now?

@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.

@sundogplanets

"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]."

@sundogplanets

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

@sundogplanets Added to my reading list!

https://kirja.casa/user/kallekn/generatednote/46857#anchor-46857

Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/

@sundogplanets

Can't believe we're at "The solution to polluting the atmosphere is more pollution of a different type."