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by spookybones 868 days ago
In a better world, if every country agreed not to destroy each other for a decade and applied their defense budgets, it's doable. Global defense budget is approximately 2.2 trillion as of 2022, according to Statista. Granted, that would cause of a lot of unemployment.
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Whereas sulfate dispersal in the stratosphere would cost about 700 million per year. Over three orders of magnitude less money.
Unclear whether a crash decarbonization program would be more or less expensive than that, though.