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At the Munich Security Conference last week, George Soros got onstage to talk about the existential risk that climate change poses to human civilization, as well as what appeared to be the 92-year-old Hungarian-American billionaire’s preferred method of addressing it: brightening the clouds over the Arctic to reflect the sun’s energy away from the melting ice caps. But questions aside as to whether Soros—ludicrously maligned in conspiracy-minded right-wing circles—is the best advocate for solar geoengineering, he’s not the only billionaire who’s recently become interested in bouncing the sun’s rays back into space. Among the world’s ultra-rich, plans to swat back the sun’s rays like they’re capital gains taxes (to, as it were, apply a generous helping of sunblock to the earth’s atmosphere) have seemingly been all the rage.
Bill Gates, for instance, backed a project by Harvard University scientists to test an idea to spray calcium carbonate into the atmosphere in the skies over northern Scandinavia in 2021 (the project was ultimately canned after outcry from local Indigenous groups and environmentalists). Jeff Bezos put Amazon’s supercomputer capabilities to work modeling the effects of plans to inject huge amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2) into the atmosphere later that year. Earlier this month, Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire Facebook cofounder, plowed $900,000 into funding for scientists in Mali, Brazil, Thailand, and other countries to study the potential effects of solar geoengineering. Even the smaller fry are getting in on the action, with venture capitalists giving a combined $750,000 to a company pledging to implement a planetary solar geoengineering project using SO2. That company, Make Sunsets, conducted its first U.S.-based tests last week, launching balloons containing SO2 in Nevada.
Almost every single sunny day, here in my neck of the woods, I will wake up to clear skies and go to bed with clouds and drear. Why? Because of all this I observed on my walk yesterday:
Here where I live in the Sacramento basin, it gets really, really hot in the summer, and really cold (to me, an L. A. native) in the winter. I am not a super-fan of the weather extremes, but I am philosophical about it: seasons happen. There used to be nothing we could do about it. Now, the beastly billionaires, who are the ones that are actually the ones in charge of the planet, seem to be changing our weather.
This has been the longest “spring” and pre-summer since I have lived up here. Sky-defiling is another shitlib strategy of peeing on our backs and trying to tell us it’s raining: Gaslighting is an event in the O-LIB-pics.
As a citizen-journalist, and truth-monger, I have questions:
WHO is doing this?
WHAT poisons are they ejaculating from their aircraft?
From WHERE do they come?
WHY are they doing this?
I don’t remember agreeing to having the sky above me defiled with their diabolical schemes. I did not vote to have my sun blocked out. No one consulted me before this toxic empire decided to dump more toxic shizzle on me.
HOW do we stop this?
If the kakistocracy doesn’t answer these questions, then the project must be nefarious. Period. They do almost zero to make things better.
I found it interesting and, admittedly heartening, when during the COVID lockdowns when planes were grounded the skies started to clear and cleanse. The earth could heal itself with our help if we let it. Free Energy technologies which have been existing since before I was born, but have been suppressed, could produce abundance for all humans and an end to environmental destruction. For more on this please see the Substack of Wade Frazier.
Here in Y-all-ville, the legislation banned spraying the skies in July of last year. But they left a loop hole in the law that noted "no federal agency" can do so. The skies were clear for a few months, and now they are up and being sprayed again, I guess by private entities. Ugghh. Also, look HR 2977 Space and Preservation Act of 2001, page 5. Congress authorized spraying.
I found it interesting and, admittedly heartening, when during the COVID lockdowns when planes were grounded the skies started to clear and cleanse. The earth could heal itself with our help if we let it. Free Energy technologies which have been existing since before I was born, but have been suppressed, could produce abundance for all humans and an end to environmental destruction. For more on this please see the Substack of Wade Frazier.
Here in Y-all-ville, the legislation banned spraying the skies in July of last year. But they left a loop hole in the law that noted "no federal agency" can do so. The skies were clear for a few months, and now they are up and being sprayed again, I guess by private entities. Ugghh. Also, look HR 2977 Space and Preservation Act of 2001, page 5. Congress authorized spraying.