“We don’t know who struck first - us, or them - but, we do know it was us who blocked out the sun…”
Where was that quote from again?
Matrix
Literally the first thing I thought of, complete with his voice
Literally how SnowPiercer started, and I am all for it, train based survival here we go!
“Listen, this sun… whatever the hell it thinks it is, is coming to ruin your life. Now I propose you not only subsidize building the sun blocker, but also pay us monthly fees afterwards to prevent this sinful ball of devilish fire from ruining your life…”
Some board room somewhere, probably…
This reads as a start of a prologue to a postapocalyptic story.
If they get it wrong, yeah.
But not doing something like this is also most likely going to serve as the prologue to an apocalypse. Desperate times call for desperate measures…
“So the leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet. A final solution: the destruction of the sky.” - Animatrix, The Second Renaissance
Wernstrom!
Anyone you seriously and unironical think about blocking out the sun needs to be removed from office and the public immediately.
Blocking out the sun with aerosols is a good idea if you know with high confidence how it will impact the climate system and environment. That’s why they’re trying to simulate it with the supercomputer, so they know if it fucks stuff up or not.
Industry gives off greenhouse gasses that cause more sunlight to be trapped. It also gives off aerosols that reflect the light before it gets there, but those are in lesser amounts. This proposal is to release more of those aerosols into the atmosphere to counteract the effects of global warming. “Blocking out the sun” is just a clickbait headline. Read the article.
