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Voxel 🇺🇦@lemmy.ml to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change

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These scientists want to put a massive 'sunshade' in orbit to help fight climate change

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Voxel 🇺🇦@lemmy.ml to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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A group has been formed to study and promote a space-based sunshade as a method to help fend off global climate change.
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    Above and beyond what you’ve said: we would need to maintain that sunshade for hundreds of thousands of years.

    Civilizations don’t tend to last that long. The odds of our being able to actually maintain technical infrastructure like that for the required amount of time are low.

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