Over the past few decades, people have been really losing their minds about global warming. This is largely because islands are disappearing and people in Florida keep having to rebuild their houses due to annual “once in a lifetime” weather events.

Despite this obvious evidence that something is slowly going very, very wrong, the response of the general public has amounted to “throwing their Coke cans in the recycling when the bin isn’t too far away.” But one company insists that we need to do more.

“Invest in renewable energy?” No, more! “Use less stuff in the first place?” No, you idiot — more! “Uh…cover up the sun completely?” Now we’re cooking with (and huffing) gas!

A startup, called Stardust Solutions, says they can solve the global warming problem by filling the sky with reflective particles. This would bounce some of the sun’s rays back into space, thus limiting the amount of light (and heat) that made its way to the Earth’s surface.

It should be noted that this isn’t a new idea. It should also be noted that all previous versions of this idea have been thrown out because, well, *obviously* they’ve been thrown out. Covering up the sun even partially will likely have incalculable impacts on weather patterns, food supplies and possibly even global politics.

For example, what country is going to agree to be the first to have their sun disappear? How are you going to explain that your country wants to cover up the sun — so sorry, Spain vacationers, but you’re going to have to get your tan some other way.

Will this ever actually happen? Likely not. We’ll probably be awash in boiling seawater before we think about sky mirrors. But, it’s an interesting thought — and if they ever decide to actually do it, Lord knows they’re not going to ask us for permission first.