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Many methods for dealing with increasing temperatures are touted by people who have an interest in solving the climate changing crisis (I won’t say their interest is purely financial; although the advocates seem to favour different techno-fixes depending on which start-up/research project they’ve invested in). 

The geoengineering lingo for the various means of injecting particles into the atmosphere in order to reflect more sunlight back to space is known as Solar Radiation Management (SRM)

[The many other proposed techno-fixes are a whole other kettle of batshitcrazy that might form the basis of a different poem later this month, but today’s poem gonna focused solely on ones that deal with the sun — & the three short stanzas I’m sharing concern sulphate aerosols. Not the space mirrors. Not the billions of aluminised, hydrogen-filled balloons. Just the sulphate. Aerosol.]

This poem written, the topic for my Poetic Factoid practically wrote itself.

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dim the sun

spraying sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere
via specially techofitted airplanes

or to rush ludicrously to the other extreme 
via very long hoses hanging from helium balloons

even squirting it into the sky — somehow —
via cannons (yes, you read it right)

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dim the sum

“dim sum” can be translated 
as point of the heart
   — or touch the heart

dim sum is also best enjoyed 
with a large group of friends
   — explaining why i never eat it