The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
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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.
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.
I don't plan to use them for wealth, it's just a nice stable form of carbon that's sharp and heavy.
... raining down from the sky... Seems a bit dangerous, no?
Only to the people they're aimed at.
Agreed, but looking in the bright side: it would kill the diamond industry, which is a fucking awful blight on the world :)
Why not have it drop as graphite. Could be compressed as diamonds or used as base stock for carbon fibers or carbon nanotubes or carbon future-space-filaments. More useful, more stable, and could be a more versatile export.
Not nearly so stabby, nor does it send nearly such a fabulous message.
Hate to be a killjoy but C02 is only one greenhouse gas and not even the worst one.
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.
Methane would be more effective than C02. Methane is the elephant in the room no one talks about