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What's interesting to me is that there's nothing stopping one country from deciding to do it. Canada, USA, Russia, even Denmark (via Greenland), Finland, Norway
by mabbo 4y ago
What's interesting to me is that there's nothing stopping one country from deciding to do it. Canada, USA, Russia, even Denmark (via Greenland), Finland, Norway, Sweden or any nation near the south pole.
It's a logistics problem, not a technology problem.
Just as there's no legal framework to force countries to not make the climate warmer, the same goes for cooling the climate.
- curlftpfs 4y agoThis idea is explored in Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock. There was no stopping one crazy billionaire, let alone an entire nation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
- perihelions 4y agoAlso, access to international sulfur markets. That wouldn't be a barrier for Canada though, which has access to an unlimited supply from (ironically) its oil industry. Athabasca oil sands are somewhere around 5% sulfur, most of which gets extracted and piled up into useless pyramids (since no one is buying it). https://www.businessinsider.com/there-are-mountains-of-sulfur-growing-in-the-oil-sands-just-waiting-for-demand-to-increase-2012-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/there-are-mountains-of-sulfu... https://boingboing.net/2016/07/05/the-great-sulphur-pyramids-of.html https://boingboing.net/2016/07/05/the-great-sulphur-pyramids...
- mabbo 4y agoPerfect. At long last my country will take it's rightful place as ruler of the world: we'll start a massive global cooling project and threaten to end it in a termination shock if we aren't properly compensated for it.
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- Klaster_1 4y agoNeil Stephenson explores this theme in Termination Shock [1], worth a read if you are curious about the subject. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)