cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/4087
A US-Israeli geoengineering startup has raised $60m as part of its plan to test ‘sun-reflecting technology’. Critics are warning the new tech could have unexpected negative impacts on global weather and drive “geopolitical conflict”. Supporters, meanwhile, have pointed out it might not do that. 🚨Big News in Solar Geoengineering Stardust Solutions, an Israeli-U.S. startup developing […]
By Willem Moore
If you’re unfamiliar with solar ‘geoengineering’, it’s essentially climate change in reverse. Much like how we’ve caused global warming and other changes by releasing carbon, methane, and other gases, scientists believe we can reverse the problem by releasing particles which reflect sunlight back into space.
In a report titled The Risks of Geoengineering, the Center for International Environmental Law summarised:
Geoengineering technologies, if deployed at scale, could have profound, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible effects on biodiversity, both through their direct impacts and as a result of compounding and exacerbating existing planetary crises caused by pollution, climate change, and unsustainable land use.
As reported by Politico, this latest geoengineering plan is being led by US-Israeli startup Stardust Solutions. Their technology involves custom particles which the company claims are ‘inert’. They also believe these particles will not accumulate in humans or ecosystems, will not harm the ozone layer, and will not create acid rain.
Stardust Solutions’ founders are nuclear physicists who worked for the Israeli government. Although they insist their new project is unaffiliated with the state of Israel, they are headquartered outside Tel Aviv. This could cause problems for them worldwide given the boycott of Israel which began during Israel’s apartheid era and continued throughout the genocide.
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This is making me seriously consider changing my avi from Quattro to CCA Char. You cant engineer a fucking planet, or at least we can't. We do not understand our own planet nearly enough to even try fucking with it on purpose. This will still cause MASSIVE amounts of animal deaths and im pretty sure making the sky permanently grey is gonna be just fantastic for agriculture without even getting into what these chemicals they're pretty sure are inert will do to soil when it accumulates via rainfall. Solar power is gonna have a harder time cause irs always cloudy. Also we will just never see a blue sky again which passes cartoonish supervillainy into actual demon territory.
GOOD post. Exactly my thoughts. There is no way something like this wouldn't completely mess up an already pressured biosphere.
No to mention, it doesn't solve other, non-heat related problems that are being caused by anthropocentric forces. We still will have too much carbon dioxide in the air, for one which is bad for all sorts of reasons, not just for the ozone.
It's escapism made manifest. Even if it works youre essentially manufacturing the extinction event that will ultimately be the result of global warming but on a smaller and faster scale in order to delay the real thing until it hits you all at once when you can't keep pumping your probably inert mystery chemicals. We will run out of the material to synthesize whatever these almost for sure inert chemicals pretty fast or just like, stuff will happen to cause the mystery chemical rockets to stop being launched. Real fucking anprim hours here cause without a climate Stalin we are fucked so hard with these disgusting and buffoonish dreamweavers being allowed to make any choices let alone ones so massive as fucking GEOWENGINEERING. Literally everyone is stuck with those choices, this is some should be declared an enemy to life itself evil
real doomer hours but life could survive the 'normal' climate chaos we're projected for at the worse end, whereas theres a very real chance this delayed/condensed climate event could literally kill everything. solar geoengineering could precipitate a scenario more rapid and intense than the fucking great dying, and it's the only plan the capitalist ruling class seems to be interested in (besides global thermonuclear war)
At least we kinda know the death rate of climate change, I totally agree there.
They'll destroy this earth they treat as their's and then say it's ours
"the meek shall inherit the earth"
'yea, once we are done with it, nerd'
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
"israel" sending the world to scotland
To quote Monty Python "Why would anyone be Scottish?...exactly! It would inly be if they had no other choice in the matter!"