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It's potentially more profitable (in the short term, and for the people proposing it) to geo-engineer the atmosphere.

Late stage capitalism and globalization would be my guess.

I've heard it said that the US is good at coming up with technical solutions to social problems and this seems like the perfect example of that. (Analogous to our terrible highway/stroad system in most cities, that moves a lot of vehicles and kills a lot of people)



Is the US good at shutting down Indian and Chinese coal plants?


The US could be great at shutting down Indian and Chinese coal plants by EO. Just provide asylum to those that would seek to do it by any means necessary.


Could you please clarify? Are you talking about encouraging wreckers and then taking them in as refugees?


Yes, this is the climate change version of McD Theory[1].

1. https://jonbell.medium.com/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d


Selecting something awful for lunch doesn't have potential for disasterous consequences the way state sponsored terrorism does, though.


Feel free to suggest your own bad solution!


Nuke China and India? We would drastically cut emissions for a small toll of three billion lives. Then we could pollute as much as we want! /s


You can shut down coal plants by simply providing power more cheaply than they could afford to continue operating.

Renewables achieve this, and just need to be built out. But building out takes time.


Wait, so you're proposing the US pay for India and China's power?


What? No, undercut them.




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