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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If you ever wanted to know what would bring back ecoterrorism. It’s this. If anything like this ever tried to scale up it would immediately be attacked.
Nah. Nothing will happen. The zionist entity where this research is taking place is full of fascists happy with and dependent on genocide so it’s not exactly full of radicals who care about the earth. It’s also an incredibly locked down police state. By the time it’s ready for production the secrets will be in three places and the only way to stop it will be a full scale war with the US which no one including China will be willing to do unless it’s an undisputable fact that this stuff will wipe out half of human life or something else equally serious and most likely it won’t be clear exactly what the effects are until some time after deployment has been irrevocably set in motion. The usual propagandists who’ve downplayed the seriousness of climate change will be deployed to downplay the seriousness of any “side effects” and the same frothing reactionaries who’ve denied climate change so far will line up to be first in line to say we have to deploy this to save ourselves and to call those against it hypocrites for being against climate change and against their “fix”.
Doom scenario.
Don’t over-estimate them though. Silicon valley idiots will probably blow that money away in a 3 day coke bender and call it a day. You think they give a shit about climate change?
This may be in the zionist entity currently but I sincerely doubt that you can do geoengineering intended to fix the entire world from one location. I assure you if this ever shows up in europe or uses anything in europe as part of its chain, it will absolutely be burned down.