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White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun's rays to slow global warming (www.eenews.net)

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The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.

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[–] HipHoboHarold@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this is what we are aiming for instead of just fixing the things causing the problems

Then maybe we should just consider letting global warming do its thing.

[–] Generic-Disposable@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's too late to actually fix the problems.

[–] HipHoboHarold@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much. Guess I should have Saud "work on the problems." Like we could be trying to do better, and instead of working on the things that got us to this point, a lot of them were left alone. And instead the plan is to work on blocking out the sun.

Yes, it's obviously more complex. And yes, there has been a bigger push for green energy. But we could be forcing even more change instead of this

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You say "just fixing the things causing the problems" as if that's something that's easy, or even doable. It's not.

I really don't get why people are so opposed to simply studying options like this. If you're really convinced that the world is doomed anyway, why does it bother you whether studies like this are done?