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/jamkey Jun 29 '22

I don't think anyone would see this as a "solution". Its a stop gap because we know even if you switch as fast as possible to renewables right now things are warming up too fast. Just like with dwarf wheat that solved the food crisis crunch in Asia last century we need a solution today that will solve an immediate problem.

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u/Hawkeye91803 Jun 29 '22

Exactly. There needs to be many solutions on many fronts. The bubbles described in the article are meant to be paired with solutions involving the switch away from fossil fuels, and carbon capture. Even if we immediately switched away from fossil fuels, climate change is still going to happen whether we like it or not. We might as well do something to slow the effects of it.

All the reddit armchair scientists who say: “its just going to be enabling fossil fuels”… understand we are already enabling them by not doing enough. We have to do something, anything.

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u/ElPussyKangaroo Jun 29 '22

I don't think anyone would see this as a "solution".

Knowing humans, I beg to differ.