The Year 536

[TheOriginalJphyper]

Yeah, sun blocking sounds like more of a last resort to buy time than a true solution.

[bloodsport]

Now you know why it's called Iceland

[Mestrecker]

Apparently getting the whole world together to build a giant space mirror is easier then passing laws to regulate corporations to improve the climate

[Macken-nl]

When Mr. Burns can’t keep his oil companies open.
“BLOT OUT THE SUN SMITHERS!!”

[nerdyfalco]

Corporates spending billions of dollars in finding solutions other than not polluting is why many think we're already doomed

[nxreliant]

Dumb politicians playing with fire. We are doomed.

[robertkerr]

Yeah, those pesky unintended consequences. Like the death of all vegetation on earth. Oops.

[smallestbrain]

This is literally the dystopian future of Snowpiercer. God damn do I not want to live on that train, please don't do this World Leaders

[vinne]

Fun fact: this created essentially a 3 year winter in the Nordics, which halved the population and is commonly seen as the origin of Fimbulvetr. (In Nordic mythology, a 3 year winter which precedes Ragnarök.)

[mrshrimpeugene]

How a bad event somehow become good over 1500 years later

[livingbeings]

“Sunblocking” is a dystopian nightmare. Wtf. Please no one do this. Smh

[morganthem]

I feel like this is how you completely change the planet's balance forever... like bad forever

[VenomSteak]

"Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

[ibragimismayilzade]

Politicians trying to block the sun
Photosynthesis literally stoping: Im boutta end this man's whole career

[Egilhelmson]

“… that it took humanity over 100 years to recover.”
This was the Justinian Plague. In the mid 1300s, a similar event caused the Black Death, with similar death rates, and a similar time to recover (at least in England, which had the best records, needing to calculate taxes).

[paulwarner]

And at this moment in time they think another volcano is about to erupt in Iceland. Recently they've been having minor quakes too.

[QwoaX]

"a 20 year Gothic war"

"Charge! Those Romans are just posers, anyway!"

[jixfei]

Ok but like, a "gothic war" sounds sick asf

[domschra]

"wed rather spend resources treating the symptons than deal with the root cause"

Fucking.great.

[akua]

Never in my life have i heard the plague pronounced like that