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Begging people to understand that solar geoengineering is literally genocide. I'm having difficulty understanding why people in a solarpunk lemmy instance think a project that has the potential to cause two mass extinctions, droughts, and social murder of millions of disabled folk is solarpunk.

Dumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight—a project called solar geoengineering—would cause mass ecological shocks to ecosystems worldwide that have adapted to a warmer climate and then shocked into a cooler one all of the sudden. Then there's the risk that solar geoengineering would stop due to all kinds of political reasons. Stopping the dumping of sulfur dioxide would cause the climate to rapidly warm again, which will then cause shocks to ecosystems that survived the original shock. That's two mass extinction events that can be caused by solar geoengineering.

Then there's the people who rely on wild and domesticated ecosystems that would be affected by less sunlight and cooler climates. We'd see droughts and famines.

Then there's the obvious fact that sulfur dioxide emissions will kill disabled people by the millions.

There are no technological solutions to social problems. Our climate crisis is a social issue and cannot be solved by a technological fix like solar geoengineering.

I don't know why it needs to be said, but genocide is not solarpunk.

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