Calling it now: As global warming become more and more obvious and undeniable, climate deniers are going to pivot hard towards geoengineering. Really stupid, really poorly thought out geoengineering that serves mainly as an excuse to embezzle money and cause problems. -_-
@Angle they’re already at it with ‘hydrogen for home heating (so their pipe networks don’t become stranded assets)’, ‘carbon capture and storage’ and ‘Sustainable Air Fuel’ alongside the biggest scam of all ‘Net Zero’. All designed to prolong our addiction to filthy fossil fuels because corps can’t control the supply of sunshine and wind and therefore can’t create scarcity in order to price gouge their customers.
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That's the reason I was so annoyed by the book "Termination Shock". Everyone was fawning over how brave it was to tackle climate change in such a realistic way but all I could see was another tech bro, hand in hand with old money and government, doing irresponsible geo-engineering and claiming to save the world. 🤢
@Angle I mean, I've heard a few ideas already... Carbon capture, seeding the atmosphere with reflective particles, space mirrors... Carbon capture is the closest to actually happening, but it's not invested in as a solution so much as a new, greenwashed way to produce "net zero" oil for continued consumption
My guess at an initial vector would be Musk, or some other techbro, and then getting picked up by Trump and spread everywhere from there. Next couple of years, probably.
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