• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pull a gazilion tons of carbon out of the atmosphere, crystallise it into gigantic diamond shards, and drop them from the stratosphere onto the 95th percentile by wealth in each country.

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t work. If there’s so many diamonds, they’d just kind of lose their value. Also, who are you gonna sell them to, if everyone has them?

      Although it could kind of be a new currency that excludes the rich, making their wealth at least a little useless.

      I fully agree on the premise, but I think it needs refining.

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        1 year ago

        Per kilo, sure. But in terms of overall impact, I’ll lay odds that reducing the CO2 level down to preindustrial levels would be more effective than reducing any other pollutant.