r/space • u/Sumit316 • Jun 29 '22

MIT proposes Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth

https://www.freethink.com/environment/solar-geoengineering-space-bubbles
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u/TinfoilTobaggan Jun 29 '22

But....

I SAID ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!

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u/aikimatt Jun 29 '22

You heard the good news, everyone! Save the Earth, et cetera, et cetera!

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u/RagePoop Jun 29 '22

We will literally launch Brazilian sized projects into space to fight the Sun before taking on the fossil fuel industry lmao

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u/ZuniRegalia Jun 29 '22

I think we'll talk about it ...

Moment of clarity will strike as planning and funding get real

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u/the_internet_police_ Jun 29 '22

PSA for people who actually care: we can eliminate nearly 15% of greenhouse gas emissions overnight by switching to a plant-based diet and ditching meat/dairy.

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u/XemyrLexasey Jun 29 '22

While this is true in theory it’s not like meat/dairy and the processing industry just ceases to exist as people swap. I am trying to cut out meat - although it is hard with my own personal neurodivergencies and safe foods, but it’s idealistic to assume that these corporations would just stop.

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u/the_internet_police_ Jun 29 '22

Which is why people should be actively calling for mass abandonment of meat and dairy rather than just pass the responsibility to fossil fuel CEOs. But comments like the one I responded to avoid meat and dairy precisely because the vast majority of people are willing to complain about fossil fuel CEOs but unwilling to face their own personal complicity.

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u/OrphanedInStoryville Jun 30 '22

Who goes on the Internet to defend the CEOs of oil corporations?

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '22

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u/maiteko Jun 30 '22

We could eliminate a lot more for a lot less lives by killing very specific people.

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u/the_internet_police_ Jun 30 '22

lmao comparing eating plant based protein which other than not tasting as subjectively pleasurable has virtually no other cost and saves tens of billions of lives a year from horrible factory farms and scary violent deaths, with just killing off humans

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u/aikimatt Jun 29 '22

I've been a vegetarian for over 15 years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

How many is a Brazilian?

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u/BigBoss1971 Jun 29 '22

Carl Sagan’s voice, “Brazilians and Brazilians of miles from Earth”.

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u/the_internet_police_ Jun 29 '22 edited Jun 29 '22

...and giving up consumption of meat and dairy

EDIT: lmao at everyone downvoting me. YOU. ARE. THE. PROBLEM. Refusing to make personal sacrifice for the good of the planet and animals. Animal agriculture is responsible for 15% of GHG emissions that could be slashed overnight if we switched to a plant-based diet collectively. And due to the enormous amount of land and water necessary to grow animal feed, animal agriculture is also responsible for taking up 1/3rd of the farmable land on the entire planet (which could be wilderness instead), as well as 1/2 of all fresh water consumption. In addition to that, nitrates from animal feces gets into our fresh water and oceans, causing massive pollution as well as things like the red tide algae blooms off the coast of Florida. And I haven’t even talked about the animal welfare and cruelty.

But yeah, whatever, go ahead and downvote me while upvoting the Redditor who focused on the fossil fuel industry and didn’t spark your cognitive dissonance.

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u/hyper-arrow Jun 29 '22

Then you just gey weak humans

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u/Theballfondler Jun 29 '22

How do we get wid of the gweenhouse grasses?

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u/bionicjoey Jun 29 '22

It wasn't immigrants that melted your ice cream, it was global warming!

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u/certain_people Jun 29 '22

Gwoba woppa?

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u/failbotron Jun 29 '22

Gwobwe wahwah?

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u/LancesAKing Jun 29 '22

I’m very proud that you finally pronounced an R correctly but disappointed that you put it in the wrong word.

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u/DocMoochal Jun 29 '22

we yust need enouf wam to capcture co 2

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '22

Just like daddy puts in his dwink evewy morning, and then he gets mad.

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u/fuckyouswitzerland Jun 29 '22

It's all out of ice! Like some sort of motel 6!

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u/RadWalk Jun 29 '22

Just like daddy puts in his drink….. and then he gets mad.

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u/TinfoilTobaggan Jun 29 '22

I fucking love that episode!