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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by roenxi on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:30AM (#33201398)
I think your comment is pretty reasonable, but I really can't resist making this observation.

> It will put very strong pressure during the transition...

As opposed to exponential growth? With the number of people we've got wandering around, we're one slightly-worse-than-COVID disaster away from 100s of millions to billions of people starving to death. An outcome like Japan's is significantly better than what is likely to happen in Africa.

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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by onikolas7 on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:44AM (#33201458)
No, I agree, it is the sensible thing to be doing, but it looks like we are at a point where radical short term fixes are needed.
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Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re... by nextaccountic on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:08AM (#33211660)
The human population growth is not rising exponentially, the growth is actually declining since the 1960s and by 2100 we may not even grow anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Population_g...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...

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