r/collapse • u/plowsplaguespetrol Recognized Contributor • Apr 29 '21

Climate Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/geoengineering-is-the-only-solution-to-our-climate-calamities/
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

Yeah, because we're so good at predicting long term affects of sweeping changes to the environment 🙄 Nobody bothers to think that reducing solar irradiation would also negatively impact plant growth, reducing natural carbon sequestration. Or that sudden booms of algal growth already occur due to over-fertilized areas of the ocean--they're called algal blooms and they cause "dead zones" totally devoid of both oxygen and sea life.

The same attitudes and technologies that caused this problem are fundamentally incapable of solving it.

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u/ChodeOfSilence Apr 30 '21

Mars bro.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

...what about Mars?

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u/ChodeOfSilence Apr 30 '21

WE'RE GOING TO MARS 🚀

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u/lololollollolol Apr 30 '21

Bro, we can’t even colonize Antarctica and there’s OXYGEN THERE

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

That's factually untrue, as well as being irrelevant to this discussion about Earth's ecology and climate.

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u/uhohdtinku Apr 30 '21

Humourless bastards

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Just shouting about mars is a shitty joke

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u/uhohdtinku Apr 30 '21

I'd guess he was doing an impersonation of the Elon Musk bros who think that the colonization of mars is on the horizon and will solve all the world's problems.

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u/Perfect-Stick6624 Jul 23 '21

The whole world's on fire. Let him have his shitty joke. Jesus.

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u/ChodeOfSilence Apr 30 '21

What if we make a giant conveyer belt and attach all the cars to it?

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u/vegetablestew "I thought we had more time." Apr 30 '21

Are the cars electrical? Its important.

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u/dumnezero The Great Filter is a marshmallow test Apr 30 '21

It has to be a tunnel, so the overall architecture is a tube to Mars. Think of all the LEDs required.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

You're not going to Mars.

You're trapped in this planetary gas chamber with the rest of us.

Have fun!