Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
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Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414
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Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/
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'Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That’s the premise of the science fiction novel “Termination Shock,” which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022.'
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK TECHBROS
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@sundogplanets Who can/will stop them? We have rules for installing a plant in most of our countries but do we have enough international rules for space? And if not which organisation could do that?
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@NatureMC It's too bad the UN doesn't seem to actually be effective at much anymore because it seems like they have to be the ones to regulate.
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@sundogplanets Thanks to your answer, I found indeed the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the UN (UNOOSA): https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html
Reading their article about space law: https://www.un.org/en/peace-and-security/international-space-law-explained seems to be not so much a problem that they wouldn't work but a problem of the political disaster at the moment, especially with the USA withdrawing from so many responsibilities.
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