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The Economist Proposes Planetary-Scale Changes

17 September 2008 14 views One CommentPrint This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post
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(Via The Atlantic). The Economist is proposing planetary-scale changes to combat global warming.  This terraforming could involve removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or injecting sulphur into the upper atmosphere to block out some of the sun’s energy to cool the planet.  While I’m sure this would require a great percentage of the world’s GDP to accomplish, what happens if, like now, the planet is in a cooling phase?  How much more money and effort would be expended to correct that problem?

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  • Ben said:

    These ideas won’t go anywhere. The greenies don’t want solutions, they want sackcloth lifestyle changes.

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