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Well we stopped doing it because the things that were causing the clouds to be nice and shiny caused acid fucking rain but yeah.

FrustratedMonky 2y ago
I might be wrong, but think Sulfur in upper atmosphere can be ok and sulfur in lower atmosphere causes acid rain. The sulfur from pollution was just going everywhere, so we should definitely stop doing it, Acid rain is real, and is bad. But Sulfur might be a solution if we can loft it into the upper atmosphere and bypass where the acid rain forms. - subject of book Termination Shock proposed this.
- theossuary 2y ago
  This is an awful idea. It's like people who do a 30 day liquid only diet to lose weight. Sure they'll lose 15lbs, and feel good about themselves. But it isn't healthy or sustainable, it'll have unintended side effects, and it'll prevent them from doing the very real and necessary work to change their lives to lose weight naturally. It's honestly scary howany people think that this is reasonable; I'd be horrified if it wasn't so damn human.
  - FrustratedMonky 2y ago
    Not sure it is 'awful', it doesn't solve the underlying problem. But could be temporary solution amongst a lot of bad options if/when things get bad enough for people to generally wake up and need to do something fast. Lets say a few more decades go by, we make no progress on 'non-awful' options. Then suddenly we get a summer where a few 10k's or millions die, and suddenly politicians/public are like 'wow, guess this is real after all, lets do something. Guess we can start spreading sulfur around pretty quickly'. Wouldn't be surprised if this happens, and then we over-compensate and create an ice age.
    - r14c 2y ago
      the politicians are in denial or are choosing short-term gains over the future the rest of us have to live in. we even have agreements to do something, but then don't. we're operating on copium and delusion right now and many parts of the US are facing climate change related disasters already, but it doesn't move the needle. i don't have any answers, but i don't think any particular disaster is going to change people's minds.

FrustratedMonky 2y ago

I might be wrong, but think Sulfur in upper atmosphere can be ok and sulfur in lower atmosphere causes acid rain. The sulfur from pollution was just going everywhere, so we should definitely stop doing it, Acid rain is real, and is bad. But Sulfur might be a solution if we can loft it into the upper atmosphere and bypass where the acid rain forms. - subject of book Termination Shock proposed this.

theossuary 2y ago
This is an awful idea. It's like people who do a 30 day liquid only diet to lose weight. Sure they'll lose 15lbs, and feel good about themselves. But it isn't healthy or sustainable, it'll have unintended side effects, and it'll prevent them from doing the very real and necessary work to change their lives to lose weight naturally. It's honestly scary howany people think that this is reasonable; I'd be horrified if it wasn't so damn human.
- FrustratedMonky 2y ago
  Not sure it is 'awful', it doesn't solve the underlying problem. But could be temporary solution amongst a lot of bad options if/when things get bad enough for people to generally wake up and need to do something fast. Lets say a few more decades go by, we make no progress on 'non-awful' options. Then suddenly we get a summer where a few 10k's or millions die, and suddenly politicians/public are like 'wow, guess this is real after all, lets do something. Guess we can start spreading sulfur around pretty quickly'. Wouldn't be surprised if this happens, and then we over-compensate and create an ice age.
  - r14c 2y ago
    the politicians are in denial or are choosing short-term gains over the future the rest of us have to live in. we even have agreements to do something, but then don't. we're operating on copium and delusion right now and many parts of the US are facing climate change related disasters already, but it doesn't move the needle. i don't have any answers, but i don't think any particular disaster is going to change people's minds.