Major corporate newspaper recognizes need for geoengineering in face of climate change
Even rags like the Washington Post are ready to admit greenhouse gases are another thing humans can't manage sustainably. On Saturday (after the newspaper was called out by Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov for denying Putin credit over the killing of rival Navalny in prison) its editorial board published their analysis concluding the only choice to mitigate climate catastrophe may be geoengineering. Their article mistakenly refers to a 1.5° increase in Earth's temperature as “inevitable” rather than “past.” They vaguely mention that this level of warming has catastrophic consequences.
They talk about the general concept of deflecting the sun's heat, but the only specific solution they suggest is polluting the atmosphere with sulfur to combat greenhouse gas pollution. In each issue published so far, the editorial board here at Free Newspaper Printed By Whoever has advised against such solutions, instead suggesting a solar-shielding ring made out of the moon. This suggestion may sound ridiculous, but it would actually be quite easy for robots to use material from the moon to make a ring around the earth. The hardest parts would be convincing the public to allow tampering with their precious moon, then rapidly mass-producing and deploying robotic landers in a controlled manner. It's worth noting that atmospheric sulfur is well-understood to cause acid rain.
Source: "Humans might need to re-engineer the climate" from washington post dot com editorial board