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by bantunes 1970 days ago
We can wait for private enterprise to build giant mirrors in orbit or, you know, lobby for subsidies for oil, coal and gas to end and become more sustainable, thus transitioning to a society that doesn't need giant mirrors in orbit to survive.
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Maybe we need to do both. Green energy or carbon neutral is good, but cannot achieve instantly. Most countries are inside treaty, but stop oil, coal and gas will give countries outside treaty a unaffair advantage, making the goal harder to reach.
It just seems like deploying and maintaining giant mirrors in orbit is really against Occam's Razor here.
And meat