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Most of what I've read lately seems to indicate climate change can't be mitigated through societal restraint at this point. I think we need to seriously approac
by caseymarquis 8y ago
Most of what I've read lately seems to indicate climate change can't be mitigated through societal restraint at this point. I think we need to seriously approach an engineered solution akin to terraforming. I'd love to know what efforts are being made in this direction.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 8y ago>we need to seriously approach an engineered solution We haven't tried the political solution yet. Since limiting carbon emissions is the cheapest and easiest solution to climate change, it would be a good start to have politicans serve the people's interest instead of the fossil fuel ones, don't you think?
- 0xffff2 8y agoWhat are the people's interests here? Selfishly, I happen to like driving my car. Cheap gasoline is in my interest. What needs to be served to tackle climate change politically is the global greater good. We don't have a great track record with global anything in politics, nor do we have a great track record on serving the greater good, so I don't like those odds.
- dwaltrip 8y agoWhat do you care about more, cheap gas or the types of lives your grandchildren or great grandchildren will be living? Regulations solved the ozone issue, leaded gasoline, etc. It has also failed many times. It's tricky, I get it. But it can be possible to create effective regulations. Sometimes situations demand we try -- this looks like one to me.
- tim333 8y agoThey've studied SO2 injection in the atmosphere but I'm not sure it's a good idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injection_(climate_engineering)#Efficacy_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio... A less dramatic thing to try would be a carbon tax of say $50/ton combined with a similar credit for sequestration efforts like seaweed farming.