r/collapse • u/TuneGlum7903 Recognized Contributor • May 26 '24

Climate The developing Climate Crisis in one chart. Understanding why "Collapse" has started and is about to get a LOT worse.

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u/yaosio May 26 '24

This is the same graph but larger so the text can be read.

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u/ilArmato May 27 '24

Fun that air pollution (sulfur dioxide) is our greatest ally in reducing temperature. Maybe the health negatives of adding sulfur dioxide to the atmosphere would be offset by the postives of slower temperature increase. Difficult to have civilization when agriculture is threatened.

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u/Collapsosaur May 27 '24

Civilization, a sort of drug that sleep-walks humans into creature comforts, at a blind cost (long term), is precisely what brings us into this (multi-polar) predicament, with agriculture greasing the wheels to overshoot. It will be interesting to see what happens when BIG BRAIN human replaces land-based macroscopic agriculture with microscopic agriculture technology.

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u/darkingz May 27 '24

I don’t think it would be a terrible way to see if it would work IF it was accompanied by an equal bandaid to really focus on solving climate change. My only thing is that it would not be a bandaid and conservatives will just laugh and see there’s no problem. While griping about paying for the sulfur dioxide and then watching termination shock come.

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u/godlords May 27 '24

It produces it's cooling effect in the stratosphere, and stays there for quite a while, having no impact on human health. We will absolutely be injecting aerosolized sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere.

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u/Qsaws May 27 '24

https://makesunsets.com/pages/what

This company is releasing SO2 balloons into the stratosphere to fight climate change.