▲ 2956 ▼ The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by nothingcorporate@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world 666 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) So can't we reintroduce the sulfur? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) It was taken out because the pollution was directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths per year. If we need to geoengineer an aerosol to cool the planet, we can do better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Deaths from increasing temperatures are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands a year already, how many of those could the aerosols have prevented? Was that more or less than tens of thousands? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago I'm not saying it can't be done or it shouldn't necessarily, I'm just trying to express why this decision happened at a political level. Politics only occasionally leads humanity to the logical course of action. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 point 3 years ago So which is the lesser evil? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) It was taken out because the pollution was directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths per year. If we need to geoengineer an aerosol to cool the planet, we can do better. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jarfil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Deaths from increasing temperatures are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands a year already, how many of those could the aerosols have prevented? Was that more or less than tens of thousands? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago I'm not saying it can't be done or it shouldn't necessarily, I'm just trying to express why this decision happened at a political level. Politics only occasionally leads humanity to the logical course of action. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 point 3 years ago So which is the lesser evil? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) Deaths from increasing temperatures are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands a year already, how many of those could the aerosols have prevented? Was that more or less than tens of thousands? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago I'm not saying it can't be done or it shouldn't necessarily, I'm just trying to express why this decision happened at a political level. Politics only occasionally leads humanity to the logical course of action. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago I'm not saying it can't be done or it shouldn't necessarily, I'm just trying to express why this decision happened at a political level. Politics only occasionally leads humanity to the logical course of action. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 point 3 years ago So which is the lesser evil? permalink fedilink source parent
