The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.
Isn’t this how Snowpiercer started?
Sigh. Every single time on Reddit, I’d pop open the comments on a thread about geoengineering and do a quick text search for “Snowpiercer”, and there it would be. And now on the Fediverse too.
It’s a terrible idea to be making any sort of real-world policy decisions based off of Hollywood action-adventure sci fi movies, whose purposes is to sell tickets by presenting a scary danger that the hero can battle using kickflips and chokeslams or whatever rather than being remotely realistic in how they treat the scenario.
