World GDP: $105.4 trillion USD
@FlyingSquid
“Scientists say…”
All of them, are you sure?
Geoengineering schemes are not agreed upon by many scientists. There are several types of geoengineering “solutions” and no agreement on any, just suggestions.I can’t help what the article is titled. 🤷♂️
What the diamond version of silicosis?
I don’t know, but I hear De Beers is already planning to corner the lung transplant market.
Amazing. Instead of just… fighting climate change by not polluting the planet let’s just fill our entire atmosphere with diamond dust, because that’s the logical decision of course.
It’s not really any different than usual dust, other than it is even more likely to scratch your phone (oh no!). The surprising thing is the bullshit price number, I’m sure it’s some brain-dead economist looking at the point-price for diamond and with great effort making a single multiplication.
Edit: The study does note industrial diamond manufacturing, but doesn’t go into detail on why it’s so expensive for diamond powder, other than saying “it would require much more industrial diamond than is currently produced”… Which is just… Empty? Considering industry would change to account for such a drastic rise in demand.
Am I the only one worried about it scratching my eyes???
Let’s throw more carbon to the air, what could go wrong. Is not like it will get to our lungs and destroy everything from the inside.
How effective would it be to sprinkle CEO dust into the sky?
I’m not saying we should try it and find out, but I’ve heard worse ideas.
Not at all. Much cheaper to sprinkle them in the hog trough
Does this feel like swallowing a spider to catch a fly to anyone else?
Perhaps we’ll die.
Isn’t this kind of thing the premise for all those “snowball Earth” sci Fi stories where global cooling went too far
No don’t worry about that!
Break into the diamond company vaults and just take it. Bam, free diamonds.
The silicosis will run rampant
Isn’t this very similar to the annuki and the Sumerian history. Where these aliens came to earth to mine gold to take it back to their planet and use it to save their atmosphere.
Can we use zirconium for $1 trillion?
How much if we use rhinestones?
I’m still set on “we’re fucked” until I see some more hopeful news.
When we are fucked and who is first fucked, and making sure I’m not that guy is what I’m trying to determine.
Does it have to be diamonds? Could we maybe use the ashes of billionaires instead?
Human ashes are mostly carbon, so yes, of course. We’ll run out of billionaires pretty quickly, though.
Sounds like a win-win tbh
Let’s give it a trial run with a few thousand then we can measure the impact and reevaluate.
That’s a problem that solves it self
We’ll just have to try and find out.
Isn’t diamond manufactured in labs in 15 minutes now? I think the price is assuming natural diamonds value
Of all the aerosols they could think about!
No chance at all of a basically indestructible material not being destructed if absorbed by lungs (or gills) and leading to some disease. You don’t need to check. There’s no way this could go wrong.
Or, rather… I believe lead is cheaper… Given how much people like to use it, maybe it’s a better option.
I was thinking asbestos…
Yeah, like asbestos… if asbestos bio-accumulated forever.
Instead, the world has a few mechanisms that will make asbestos harmless after a few generations. Not so much for diamonds.
Whatever you do, don’t look up silicosis. Not a problem at all. Not relevant.
We’re carbon based lifeforms and diamonds, yep, made of carbon. What could possibly go wrong!? /s
Diamond Lung.
Sounds posh.
They got a headline. Mission achieved.
Yes, let’s just have everyone on Earth breathe in diamond dust all day every day. There’s no way that could be bad for our health.
There’s never been a case of something having different behavior or health effects just because of a tiny chemical difference (trans fat) or size difference (micro plastics), what’s the worst that could happen?
There have never been lung issues caused by inhaling very small dust particles, right?
just wear masks for a few decades, potentially respirators, and probably add whole house air filtration if you want to take it off at night.
