Elim Garak
Veteran
What do you think needs to be done right now to tackle climate change before it's too late?
What do you think needs to be done right now to tackle climate change before it's too late?
Its been done-done, breh. I think a time machine is a nice place to start.What do you think needs to be done right now to tackle climate change before it's too late?
Can anything be done at this point?
Its been done-done, breh. I think a time machine is a nice place to start.
But in truth, It's a chain reaction that won't stop even if all humans disappeared TMRW morning and they stayed gone for the next decade . Now, we can certainly stop the increasng rate of the reaction , but we won't be able to stop it or even reverse it. This is the new normal.
The closest you can get to actually stopping it requires some complex geoenginineering stuff which most people are uncomfortable with. The green transition is a band-aid. Funky hippy concepts like eliminating cattle is also a bandaid. You'd need dynamic large scale, international geo projects to truly change our situation.
For example, for less than a billion dollars a year, the nations of earth could release sulfur-sulfates from jets in their airspace and this would actually lower the temperature of earth, but it doesnt stop the chain reaction tho. It mimics the cooling effect of volcanoes . Similarly, back in engineering school we used to joke about placing a thin film of aluminum foil at Earth's orbital L1 and L2 Lagrange points. This would reflect a huge amount of the suns output, without requiring us to change the physical atmosphere or even human behaviors in the ground.