Humans have done a pretty good job at destroying the planet over the past few centuries. Has the damage now become so bad that it’s now irreversible? Changes are happening to the climate that is not normal, some of which is down to the way we have treated the planet that we live on. Last November saw us experiencing the hottest November ever recorded, and the Arctic ice cap is melting at a phenomenal rate making it smaller now than it’s ever been and is even causing the planet’s axis to shift.
So, what can we do about it you may wonder? Well, if we are past the point of no return in terms of destruction of the planet, then the little effect will be seen from the reduction of carbon emissions or switching to green energy sources. Scientifically speaking it would take one massive geoengineering project to turn around the destruction that humans have brought to planet Earth. Some ideas that are already being toyed with include flooding Death Valley to combat the rise in the ocean levels, or slowing the melting of the ice fields in Greenland by wrapping them in a reflective solar blanket, or maybe even building a massive solar shield capable of deflecting some of the sun’s harmful rays.
Even NASA has been in cahoots with Bill Gates discussing the possibility of shooting seawater into the sky to produce excess cloud coverage that can cloak us and the planet from the sun. However, this kind of project doesn’t come cheap and comes with an estimated price tag of around $7 billion. But, if it is to be a success then it will need the backing of someone like Bill Gates – a very wealthy individual with the freedom to pull it off. Whether the project would do more harm than good, remains to be seen. Even if a project controlling carbon levels is a success for now, if in 50 years time the project is stopped, it could have a rebound effect that accelerated climate change tenfold and put is in a worse position than we were, to begin with.
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