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Oh you mean we can't just cover Antarctica with Styrofoam? Shoot!
You joke, but just wait till the billionaires start enacting geoengineering schemes unilaterally.
Why would they do that? It’s cheaper to just build a mansion in newly tropical Svalbard island.
Hubris is the reason why billionaires do what they do most of the time. Trying to do geoengineering is precisely the kind of a grand scheme these people would try.
I hear Mars is nice this time of year.
Yeah I was only mostly joking.
I've definitely heard variations of calls to insulate and whiten the poles.
Same, also seen proposals for doing stuff like seeding reflective particles in the atmosphere and other wild ideas. I fully expect that at some point it's going to come to that because the disasters are going to lead to desperate measures.
Snowpiercer here we come!
Or get a giant ice cube from space