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Alpha Centaury had a solar shade which you could deploy and cool the planet (to pre-warming levels or even further). I often ask how that solar shade is coming
by thriftwy 4y ago
Alpha Centaury had a solar shade which you could deploy and cool the planet (to pre-warming levels or even further). I often ask how that solar shade is coming along in the climate discussions, and get downvoted usually.
You have to admit that resolve to pay for a solar shade (or other discrete solution) is something you can sell to gamers. Otherwise, the main commodity being sold in the discussions of climate crisis is panic - you can see how it is clearly inferior.
That, and half-assed not-productized solutions like carbon capture, which don't even have a single chart where the good guys win decisively, regardless of amount of money spent.
Gamers are used to solving problems. Nobody comes up with solution to climate crisis.
- pjc50 4y agoAlpha Centauri! Incredible game. Had an entire xeno-environmentalist faction. > Nobody comes up with solution to climate crisis. Oh, there are plenty of solutions, but none of them are free or easy, so nobody likes them.
- thriftwy 4y agoPeople are open to non-free and non-easy solutions, but not for ones which are both never-ending and not promising any improvement ever.