Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.

Dystopian sci-fi isn’t something you’re supposed to imitate.

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  • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Uh… doesn’t S02 turn into sulfuric acid in the atmosphere…? We, uh, used to have this thing we called “acid rain”, it was killing forests and shit so we had to do something about it.

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      4 days ago

      B-b-but when we stopped pollut- I mean geoengineering with SO2 emmissions from shipping vessels the seas got hotter, so clearly more po- geoengineering is necessary and profitable