Cacophony said:
There’s only one obvious solution. Build a giant solar shield around earth while setting up a transportation system to send the Earth’s inhabitants to another planet with a perfect, natural solar shield all the while hinting that the artificial solar shield we have constructed could fail at anytime due to cosmic winds and gravitational pull.
Meanwhile, inflate the price of passage on these vessels and force all incoming citizens into a contract that forces them to work for a super corporation that will effectively run all aspects of life, socially or otherwise, on this new planet. With this regime in place they will, by the time all life has been drained from Earth and it’s surface is covered in robotic strip mining operations, have total control over the new colony leading to general discontentment among the citizenry. This discontentment leads to the formation of like minded groups of people who have a desire to see a change in policy, which slowly evolves into a desire for a change in regime, until finally the seeds of revolution have been sown and the oppressive dystopic corporate overlords have a people’s rebellion on their hands.
But after a bitter fight and a hard won victory they will soon find out that their inexperience in running a planet wide centralized infrastructure will lead to the total shutdown of the planet’s systems and the dystopia they once had will look like a utopia they will do anything to have back.
I, um, took that farther then I originally intended.
I demand a book. Now.