Scientists say sprinkling diamond dust into the sky could offset almost all of climate change so far — but it'll cost $175 trillion [USD]
Scientists say sprinkling diamond dust into the sky could offset almost all of climate change so far — but it'll cost $175 trillion [USD]
The geoengineering scheme, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, would not be cheap, but scientists say it could buy us some time until we reach net-zero carbon.
World GDP: $105.4 trillion USD
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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