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One possibility for cooling the earth is to Inject Sulfur into Air. Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. | One possibility for cooling the earth is to Inject Sulfur into Air. Injecting sulfur into the second atmospheric layer closest to Earth would reflect more sunlight back to space and offset greenhouse gas warming, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. | ||
=== Barriers to getting there... === | |||
*'''Deniers''' - cherry picking small pieces of information and relying on people’s lack of comprehension and capacity for research to sow doubt and uncertainty. One fact which is undoubtable is infinite growth cannot occur indefinitely within a [[closed system]]<ref>Malthusian Growth - <nowiki>https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/malthusian-model</nowiki></ref>. | |||
* '''Undermining expertise and intellect''' - (Goebbals, Gove, Bannon, Farage, Savarola, Trump, Putin) creating division between those who care, and those they care about | |||
*'''Mercantilist capitalism''' - capitalism, a great system that has done more to reduce poverty than nearly any other institution, but corrupted and protected by governments in order to allow them to exhaust resources rather than respond to the consequent changes in supply and demand | |||
* '''First past the post electoral systems''' - promoting single issue politics (Brexit), and weakening the capacity of smaller parties to campaign for complex longer term issues (understandably seen as secondary) | |||
*'''Consolidation of the media''' - I don’t subscribe the conspiracy theories, but 80% of all UK media is controlled by just 4 men - and any economist can tell you the damage done by oligopoly - and any political scientist can appall you with horror stories of what oligarchies do | |||
*'''Technoutopianism''' - I’m a fan of a technological solution - but it is a bet and a risky one too - the interrelationships of climate and environment are complex, and the rise of the scientific method over superstition has been incredibly successful in speeding up progress, but it can take a long time, and as you can see from the thermometer below we are already crazily close to the +1.5C increase | |||
*'''Copyright and patent system''' - if we could copy the code of FB, Gmail, Youtube and distribute it, we would not have to sit through endless advertising promoting excessive consumption just to connect with one another. | |||
*Undisclosed corporate lobbying - many politicians migrate between private and governmental positions. | |||
* '''Pro natalism''' - it's inherent in our culture to have more kids. The best thing you can do for the planet is have 1 or less children. | |||
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