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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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[–] 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