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.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    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

    • UlyssesT
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      11 days ago

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    • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      "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!!!"