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I wouldn't say "never". We've seen in recent years that reducing emissions in China can reduce the reflectivity of the planet and increase temperature everywhere in the short term, so I think it's well within reason to say that "blotting out the sun" can work.
The problem is that once you start doing something like this you're locked into doing it forever, and we don't have anywhere near the level of understanding of the knock on effects of this type of geoengineering.
They are promising $200M annual revenue by 2030 and potential IPO for sprinkling dust into the stratosphere FOR PROFIT. Who's gonna pay them? If this is a somewhat feasible solution, people would've talked about it years prior in academia and at IPCC meetings. Any serious discussion about mitigating climate change boils down to yelling at politicians to put solar panel, wind turbines and better public transport as the only feasible solution on the global scale. Not feeding cows seaweed to reduce methane emissions, not community garden, not paper straw, and certainly not blotting out the sun. This is NFT level scam.
Oh I'm not saying that this isn't a scam, you're right about that. But in theory I could see a government doing this and it working in a technical sense.
Yeah, this is straight Bond-villain shit: