World GDP: $105.4 trillion USD
@FlyingSquid
“Scientists say…”
All of them, are you sure?
Geoengineering schemes are not agreed upon by many scientists. There are several types of geoengineering “solutions” and no agreement on any, just suggestions.I can’t help what the article is titled. 🤷♂️
What the diamond version of silicosis?
I don’t know, but I hear De Beers is already planning to corner the lung transplant market.
Amazing. Instead of just… fighting climate change by not polluting the planet let’s just fill our entire atmosphere with diamond dust, because that’s the logical decision of course.
It’s not really any different than usual dust, other than it is even more likely to scratch your phone (oh no!). The surprising thing is the bullshit price number, I’m sure it’s some brain-dead economist looking at the point-price for diamond and with great effort making a single multiplication.
Edit: The study does note industrial diamond manufacturing, but doesn’t go into detail on why it’s so expensive for diamond powder, other than saying “it would require much more industrial diamond than is currently produced”… Which is just… Empty? Considering industry would change to account for such a drastic rise in demand.
Am I the only one worried about it scratching my eyes???
Let’s throw more carbon to the air, what could go wrong. Is not like it will get to our lungs and destroy everything from the inside.
How effective would it be to sprinkle CEO dust into the sky?
I’m not saying we should try it and find out, but I’ve heard worse ideas.
Not at all. Much cheaper to sprinkle them in the hog trough
Does this feel like swallowing a spider to catch a fly to anyone else?
Perhaps we’ll die.
The artificially-inflated price of the diamonds should be irrelevant in this calculation.
Sweet! Four more years of Trump presidency, and Elon Musk can just pay for it out of pocket.
Elon musk’s kids should be made an example of when reclamation comes around.
They’re being brought up thinking they can live like gods. How unfortunate would it be if they actually had to live like the rest of us…
Isn’t this kind of thing the premise for all those “snowball Earth” sci Fi stories where global cooling went too far
No don’t worry about that!
Isn’t this very similar to the annuki and the Sumerian history. Where these aliens came to earth to mine gold to take it back to their planet and use it to save their atmosphere.
So what would it cost to replace all fossil fuel energy with renewable?
You are missing the point, because we need to do that anyway.
The idea is to prevent things from getting worse in the meantime.
Replacing fossil fuels take time no matter how much we invest.ok but you just know corporations are going to use this as an excuse to keep using fossil fuels. like to them this is basically carte blanche to keep the status quo and block green energy from happening even harder. “oh hurdur har har we found a solution to climate change and it’s dumping diamonds in the atmosphere, no need to pay for green energy anymore haha” type shit
corporations are going to use this as an excuse to keep using fossil fuels.
Corporations follow the law, the only way to solove this is to have the laws required.
Corporations follow the law
Good one
Oh please, of course they don’t always, but the ones that don’t are generally forced to by oversight.
Yes I kn ow they generally get off easy, but then oversight is increased and if it continues, the penalties increase, until ultimately it will be forced to shut down if illegal activities continue.
So yes generally cooperations do follow the law.
You might find this 10-month-old Vlogbrothers video interesting.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that before. I wonder how things like “eat less beef” fit into that chart, or of that’s part of the $0 premium.
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Break into the diamond company vaults and just take it. Bam, free diamonds.
The silicosis will run rampant
Someone heard The Beatles (or maybe Rihanna) for their first time and thought “Diamonds in the sky… Huh… What if…”.
Can we use zirconium for $1 trillion?
How much if we use rhinestones?
