World GDP: $105.4 trillion USD

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    Let’s throw more carbon to the air, what could go wrong. Is not like it will get to our lungs and destroy everything from the inside.

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    Amazing. Instead of just… fighting climate change by not polluting the planet let’s just fill our entire atmosphere with diamond dust, because that’s the logical decision of course.

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      It’s not really any different than usual dust, other than it is even more likely to scratch your phone (oh no!). The surprising thing is the bullshit price number, I’m sure it’s some brain-dead economist looking at the point-price for diamond and with great effort making a single multiplication.

      Edit: The study does note industrial diamond manufacturing, but doesn’t go into detail on why it’s so expensive for diamond powder, other than saying “it would require much more industrial diamond than is currently produced”… Which is just… Empty? Considering industry would change to account for such a drastic rise in demand.

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    The artificially-inflated price of the diamonds should be irrelevant in this calculation.

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    Isn’t this kind of thing the premise for all those “snowball Earth” sci Fi stories where global cooling went too far

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      Elon musk’s kids should be made an example of when reclamation comes around.

      They’re being brought up thinking they can live like gods. How unfortunate would it be if they actually had to live like the rest of us…

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    Yes, let’s just have everyone on Earth breathe in diamond dust all day every day. There’s no way that could be bad for our health.

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      There’s never been a case of something having different behavior or health effects just because of a tiny chemical difference (trans fat) or size difference (micro plastics), what’s the worst that could happen?

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      just wear masks for a few decades, potentially respirators, and probably add whole house air filtration if you want to take it off at night.

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    Of all the aerosols they could think about!

    No chance at all of a basically indestructible material not being destructed if absorbed by lungs (or gills) and leading to some disease. You don’t need to check. There’s no way this could go wrong.

    Or, rather… I believe lead is cheaper… Given how much people like to use it, maybe it’s a better option.

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    I’m still set on “we’re fucked” until I see some more hopeful news.

    When we are fucked and who is first fucked, and making sure I’m not that guy is what I’m trying to determine.