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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh you mean we can't just cover Antarctica with Styrofoam? Shoot!

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You joke, but just wait till the billionaires start enacting geoengineering schemes unilaterally.

[–] demonquark@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would they do that? It’s cheaper to just build a mansion in newly tropical Svalbard island.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Hubris is the reason why billionaires do what they do most of the time. Trying to do geoengineering is precisely the kind of a grand scheme these people would try.

[–] girlfreddy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I hear Mars is nice this time of year.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I was only mostly joking.

I've definitely heard variations of calls to insulate and whiten the poles.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, also seen proposals for doing stuff like seeding reflective particles in the atmosphere and other wild ideas. I fully expect that at some point it's going to come to that because the disasters are going to lead to desperate measures.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Snowpiercer here we come!

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

Or get a giant ice cube from space