• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      1 year ago

      You joke, but just wait till the billionaires start enacting geoengineering schemes unilaterally.

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        1 year ago

        Why would they do that? It’s cheaper to just build a mansion in newly tropical Svalbard island.

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          1 year ago

          Hubris is the reason why billionaires do what they do most of the time. Trying to do geoengineering is precisely the kind of a grand scheme these people would try.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I was only mostly joking.

        I’ve definitely heard variations of calls to insulate and whiten the poles.

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          1 year ago

          Same, also seen proposals for doing stuff like seeding reflective particles in the atmosphere and other wild ideas. I fully expect that at some point it’s going to come to that because the disasters are going to lead to desperate measures.