• MajesticTechie@feddit.uk
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    The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they’ve reached the necessary altitude, those planes will disperse particles engineered to reflect away enough sunlight to cool down the planet, purportedly without causing environmental side effects.

    The proprietary (and still secret) particles could counteract all the greenhouse gases the world has emitted over the last 150 years, the company stated in a 2023 pitch deck it presented to venture capital firms. In fact, it’s the “only technologically feasible solution” to climate change, the company said.

    Mmmm tasty secret particles I can taste them already. They’ll pair well with my microplastics

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      Oh and of course it’s the worlds must trustworthy and socially conscious nation that will geoengineer globally distributed nano particles without any scientific or regulatory oversight…Israel

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      the “only technologically feasible solution” that allows capitalists to keep doing what they’re doing. We already have the technology we need to implement the solutions that will get us 90+% of the way there; countries just have to use it…

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    The only ‘customers’ for this are going to be governments. It’s just a government program with private legal embezzlers.