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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Even the most layman scientist could tell you why this is a stupid and dangerous as fuck idea
but you see capital has tried nothing and they’re out of ideas
I have found the degree of scientific ignorance/believing strongly in absolute scifi nonsense is pretty astounding. Just this week at work my boss said that one of the moons of Jupiter doesnt reflect any light, another co-worker didnt know what carbon was when me and another co-worker (with a geology degree but he’s still kinda bad at non geology stuff) we’re explaining what combustion is when out pasta pot boiled dry and she asked why the salt in the water didnt burn. I guarantee most people think string theory is real and that Dyson spheres are practical. Fucking everyone somehow seems to think Mars colonization is anything short of complete fantasy. If it’s even possible to engineer a planet we sure as fuck can’t, we cant even manage one handed to us with everything good to go. Like, id say it’s know fuck all about science but really just by having retained shit i learned in high school im leaps and bounds past most. I don’t understand not being curious about literally everything.
My brain short-circuited when I read “when out pasta pot boiled” and I thought this was an “of out hot eat the food” variation.
Auto correct guessed wrong there.
yea we all saw the simpsons
Since the dawn of Man we have yearned to destroy the sun!