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.
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.