AAAAAH!
Geoengineering is the final contingency, the Hail Marry throw when all other actions have been exhausted.
But these moneyed dorks are fully convinced that we're already at that stage. They cannot conceive of a world where they are successful little capitalists and no real effort has been made to address the problem. "Bold disruption is the only way!" Aggg! They can't do something reasonable, like build a nuclear plant. It has to be this big, showy statement -- they have to feel like they're the hero blazing a trail in the fucking sky.
We have everything we need to fix this. We have an unprecedented understanding of soil chemistry, of oceanic/atmospheric interactions, of the holistic and complex interactions of millions of species; a global network of machines for collecting, keeping, and sharing records; the ability to generate power from the fundamental interactions of matter itself!
Geoengineering is the only path for a world, somewhere in our potential future, that is already dead. Ecological Husbandry is the opportunity to keep this world and it's people alive today.
OF COURSE A FUCKING STARTUP. ITS ALWAYS A FUCKING STARTUP. JUST DECIDES TO GEOENGINEER AND THIS IS LEGAL AND FINE. SOME FUCKING ANGEL INVESTOR JUST THROWING MONEY AT SHELTERED DORKS WHO WANT TO PLAY GOD.
I would respond with a picture of a used guillotine next to a wacky inflatable tube guy and say that they all need to be fucking next
The only good thing about car dealerships (other than just walking in and enjoying the free coffee and snacks)
And the investors, but primarily the investors. 99% of this shit wouldn't exist if there wasn't a group of people shitting gold bricks in the startup toilet every chance they get.
Start up venture capital is some of the weirdest shit. Most firms drop a few million into multiple businesses, only expecting like one in four to return a profit. Most of the money that goes in is basically just wasted on dumb ideas or horribly run companies.
They've hoarded so much money that there's nothing profitable to invest it in. But by their nature they must steal and hoard and accumulate, so they invest in stupid bazinga shit while people die on the streets.
I propose a compromise solution where the CEOs are released into the atmosphere as fine particles
I spent several years as a postdoc in a climate lab working on exactly this, and let me tell you: it is a bad idea.
Oh boy I sure do trust some random-ass startup to do something insanely risky that jeopardizes the entire planet, they've definitely never fucked up much simpler things before.
Holy fuck I'm getting such a visceral reaction to this. I don't know how to interpret this other than that these people are against life itself
Yeah they're essentially a perversion malfunction in the suite of human survival skills that metastasized by taking advantage of the bizarre conditions of the last fourteen thousand years. They're like prions or something but instead of fucking up brain tissue they fuck up human socialk relations.
Luke Iseman, the cofounder and CEO of Make Sunsets, acknowledges that the effort is part entrepreneurial and part provocation, an act of geoengineering activism.
He hopes that by moving ahead in the controversial space, the startup will help drive the public debate and push forward a scientific field that has faced great difficulty carrying out small-scale field experiments amid criticism.
“We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,” he says.
Iseman, previously a director of hardware at Y Combinator, says he expects to be pilloried by both geoengineering critics and researchers in the field for taking such a step, and he recognizes that “making me look like the Bond villain is going to be helpful to certain groups.” But he says climate change is such a grave threat, and the world has moved so slowly to address the underlying problem, that more radical interventions are now required.
“It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” he says. What’s important is “to do this as quickly and safely as we can.”
fuck you fuck you fuck you, narcissistic shithead
"Don't worry about us heckin brave little rebels fundamentally and recklessly altering the atmosphere! We NEED to do this! and if you're opposed then you want the children to burn!!!"
Trying geo engineering before trying Socialism. Truly a bazinga moment.
The company is already attempting to earn revenue from the cooling effects of future flights. It is offering to sell $10 “cooling credits” for releasing one gram of particles in the stratosphere—enough, it asserts, to offset the warming effect of one ton of carbon for one year. “What I want to do is create as much cooling as quickly as I responsibly can, over the rest of my life, frankly,” Iseman says, adding later that they will deploy as much sulfur in 2023 as “we can get customers to pay us” for.
:freeze-gamer:
it's scammers scamming scammers ad infinitum. that tendency of the rate of profit to fall is a real bitch
How the fuck is releasing sulfur into the atmosphere a good idea. Didn't we just switch over to a low sulfur diesel in our truck fleet to stop acid rain?
Iseman says he pumped a few grams of sulfur dioxide into weather balloons and added what he estimated would be the right amount of helium to carry them into the stratosphere.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide
Sulfur dioxide is a major air pollutant and has significant impacts upon human health.[43] In addition, the concentration of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere can influence the habitat suitability for plant communities, as well as animal life.[44] Sulfur dioxide emissions are a precursor to acid rain and atmospheric particulates.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS STARTUP DOING
these moneyed dorks are fully convinced that we’re already at that stage.
We're way past that stage. Mitigating climate change is a pipe dream. It's not going to happen. We're on an express train to hell.
a little late to the party bud. we've had companies releasing particles into the atmosphere to tweak the climate for over a century now.
The only solution to the tragedy of the commons is for some weirdo to take such a giant shit on the commons that it is infinitely fertilized and can sustain infinite grazing.
The ego-maniacal altruistic mega shit is the only way forward which is compatible with human nature.
