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The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Pull a gazilion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, crystallise it into gigantic diamond shards, and drop them from the stratosphere onto the 95th percentile by wealth in each country.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Wouldn't work. If there's so many diamonds, they'd just kind of lose their value. Also, who are you gonna sell them to, if everyone has them?

    Although it could kind of be a new currency that excludes the rich, making their wealth at least a little useless.

    I fully agree on the premise, but I think it needs refining.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Why not have it drop as graphite. Could be compressed as diamonds or used as base stock for carbon fibers or carbon nanotubes or carbon future-space-filaments. More useful, more stable, and could be a more versatile export.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hate to be a killjoy but C02 is only one greenhouse gas and not even the worst one.

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