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The memes of the climate

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The climate of the memes of the climate!

Planet is on fire!

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[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We should start making clouds in the oceans again. I think they were protecting us.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I strongly recommend keeping this idea in your back pocket. There are a few ways to accomplish geoengineering to reduce solar gain with technology we have now. It will cost taxpayers a staggering amount of money, will likely punch down on poorer countries anyway through modified weather patterns, crop yields may suffer, air quality may get worse in ways you can't imagine, but it will work for a limited time. Right now it's a game of chicken where we want governments and big business to do anything else first. If we flinch and dim the skies, the petroleum industry will just burn more and faster, throwing away the time we just bought, delaying doomsday by a few decades instead.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are already dying in "poorer" countries. We could do some clouds now to bring the temperature down to levels that aren't killing people.

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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Brought to you by billionaires

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Edit: oof I read it completely wrong. Nothing to see here folks.

[–] auk@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

I had not anticipated "Oh shit that's a good point I should apply for a job with McKinsey" to be a takeaway that anyone would have to this post, let alone the assumed main takeaway from it.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol yeah I goofed pretty hard on that one

[–] auk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All good. I am chuffed that you were good-natured about it.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I even already had my coffee when I made the original comment. There was no excuse for my side fumbling.

Haha good meme

[–] varnia@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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