He takes over 10 minutes to get to the start of making a point, so that's not great, but there have been people with ideas for terraforming earth before. It's one of those things people are very frightened of because that's kind of a thing in sci-fi. It might work, but people are still mostly looking at climate change as something that is in the future. It won't get funding until it's too late.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The thing is, we are already terraforming the earth.

We've been pumping CO2 and a bunch of thigns into the air for a long time

[–] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

'And look where that got us.'

It's hard to get buy-in from most people when your solution looks like the problem you're trying to solve. It creates uncertainty. Add in the media's approach to science, and you get fear. It's hard enough getting science funding when people aren't afraid of it. Toss on the modern anti-intellectual movement and now you've got a controversy, a system of doubt. And controversy is good for business. Controversy gets clicks, which sells ads, so the controversy will never be allowed to die. You can't let there be a final answer to an argument that gets you paid for as long as it continues, now can you?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

I can't see this getting approval in our lifetime, but honestly I don't see any other solution.

Things will need to get DIRE before the world actually responds properly