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The way I see it, sooner or later it will come down to atmospheric engineering (i.e. managing reflective airborne molecules, like an artificial volcanic winter)
by m_mueller 10y ago
The way I see it, sooner or later it will come down to atmospheric engineering (i.e. managing reflective airborne molecules, like an artificial volcanic winter). The question will be wether we have this technology sorted out until the situation becomes desperate and whether the world will be politically stable enough for an entity to take responsibility over this - it's going to be like a sword of damocles over everyone's heads and once we've started with this we can't go back (because everyone will keep burning fossil fuel until it has run out).
- throwaway5752 10y agoHow does that address ocean acidification?
- eanzenberg 10y agoA solution could include CO2 sequestration
- fragsworth 10y agoMaybe we can neutralize that by dumping basic solutions into the ocean?
- m_mueller 10y agoIt doesn't. It won't be pretty, it's basically fighting for survival of the human species at that point.
- refurb 10y agoBecause ocean acidification is caused by atmospheric CO2? Pull CO2 out of the atmosphere and you'll reduce the amount of CO2 dissolved in the ocean.