Dimsum

So in the latest round of “things that sound like they were made up by that friend of yours who is as thick as a barge” we have the UK literally planning to pilot some experiments to “dim the sun”. This is a thing that has been mooted. Funds have been earmarked. To dim the sun. Dim. The sun. To dim it. To dim the sun. The sun. Dim sun.

Contrails happen because of temperature. You might see some moron crowing that they weren’t about in X decade where we had planes. They were. The Ickeys started to do their certainty thing where we were brainwashed cos actually “they” are controlling us with chemicals in the sky. It was whack. But the dumber people are, the more certain they can be. And patterns are attractive. It is much more comforting to think that there’s intelligent design in all the chaos. The only other option is to properly look at the unflinching uncaring mad eye of absolute random neutral chance. It’s nicer to think there’s a pattern, that we are important, that we somehow matter cosmically. That we aren’t just a load of cellbags who are trying to eat each other without being caught.

Now I’m told people are wanting to dim the sun and … look this shit up, it’s not me getting sucked in. It’s a thing. It’s not even April fools. Good god.

Why do they want to do this? Because we are too fucking greedy to stop burning anything there is to burn because we all know that if we stop then someone else will take our place. We are playing out the Fermi Paradox. Perhaps like all the other advanced civilisations before us, we are going to burn everything that might make us interstellar on short term profit. For the comfort of a few awful humans, we too will go into the bin of clever creatures. We will die clinging to this burnt rock. I think it’s a problem with our species lifespan. A few hundred years is forgotten so fast. People are already driving wedges into things that happened recently. “Oh but did the holocaust REALLY happen?” That’s coming from the same idiot that thinks the earth is flat, that evolution isn’t. That space doesn’t exist. Sure, half of it can be tracked to fundamentalist faith structures. But mostly it is ignorance grounded in greed and laziness. “Why should I change my habits?”

And so in desperation because the tipping point is basically already here, they are trying to dim the sun.

We are all going to burn. It’s too late for the crap we’ve made up. Something will continue, but before long this frantic model will collapse.

Seriously this is the reaction now? To send those oversimplifying JSO juves to prison for a decade cos they saw it coming and threw soup on a glass frame. And then to try and dim the actual sun. Because of course we can’t “just” stop oil, but still the idea of changing habits, properly breaking all the corporate abuses, deeply tackling carbon from the actual biggest emitters, not just Roger who drives a diesel engine… That’s too much to ask, is it? It shouldn’t be if now you are so desperate to fucking try and stop what you know you’ve created by seeding the clouds and making it all shit and what’s even the point of being alive if there’s no light? I’m gobsmacked. Solar panels not looking so good now.

Can we just sort out nuclear fusion? And soon. Without making a black hole please.

Christ.

Dim the sun? Get in the bin.