Dot. to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish • 26 days agoPlans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum but critical voices risk being excluded.theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down13
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkPlans to cool the Earth by blocking sunlight are gaining momentum but critical voices risk being excluded.theconversation.comDot. to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish • 26 days agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareThassodarlinkfedilinkEnglish3•26 days agoThey tried it in the Piers Anthony book Rings of Ice and that ended up absolutely terribly when the ice they took into space started melting and causing unending flooding.
minus-square@astropenguin5@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•25 days agoSo like… Don’t build it out of ice then? Also it’s a book that may or may not be fully accurate, and should be taken as a thought experiment and story There are plenty of valid concerns but that is not one of them lol
What could possibly go wrong?
They tried it in the Piers Anthony book Rings of Ice and that ended up absolutely terribly when the ice they took into space started melting and causing unending flooding.
So like… Don’t build it out of ice then? Also it’s a book that may or may not be fully accurate, and should be taken as a thought experiment and story
There are plenty of valid concerns but that is not one of them lol