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.

  • Ziege_Bock [any]
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    2 years ago

    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:

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      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?

      • footfaults [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        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