Ah yes the “skip the realities of building orbital megastructures” phase of capitalism.
Can we get like, uh, a space elevator first?
They’ll kill everything rather than just consume less. We should round them up. Place them in a deep holding cell in a pit. We can call it Sheol, and the person who feeds and waters them daily can be granted the title of Charon.
We’ll disperse into decentralized communities hardly bigger than villages. Then, maybe, before we try this whole industrial thing again, we can learn to respect and revere the world and the life around us.
Not saying this will work but its better than blocking out the fucking sun, our main source of energy.
I suggested sending them to live on the Pacific Garbage Patch. Start with anyone who owns a pickup truck they don’t need for work.
I prefer a more top-down approach to eliminate the most pollution. Start with the richest person and move on down until 1.5C is possible.
Oh ok. Then you’ll ALMOST IMMEDIATELY be eliminating people who own pickup trucks they don’t need for work.
They = 95% of the population in developed & developing countries. No one wants to be affected by actually useful climate policies, no company, no politician, no voter. Those who actually do are a minuscule minority. Otherwise we’d see vastly different parties and votes. So if we’re real for a second, drastic dumb shit like this is likely the only thing that can still save us.
It sucks we’re in the minority then. I’d be ecstatic to change this entire society up.
What could possibly go wrong?
They tried it in the Piers Anthony book Rings of Ice and that ended up absolutely terribly when the ice they took into space started melting and causing unending flooding.
Time to start designing a self-sustaining perpetual train
Billionaires: Lets just continue like we do, because uh we can like invent something to reverse it later you know?
As if it is only billionaires… lol
Exactly. Our problems stem from ordinary people, most of whom either protect and fund the billionaires or actively revere them.
What fraction of Americans want to end factory farming? How many want to disincentivize car use or even - heaven forbid - raise gas prices? Almost no one. The average person on this planet is a selfish shortsighted monster.
I wouldn’t go for monster for most people, more like smart animals. Survival instinct based on reaction time and so on.
