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Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

We’re talking about a project that would require long-term, generational buy in or it’ll blow up in our faces, and apparently the only way to do it, even now, is apparently to lie about it and go behind everyone’s backs. That’s not how science is done, it’s highly unethical and erodes public trust in science, and there will be backlash. Every time there’s been a news article about a state “banning chemtrails,” the headline is lying and what they’re actually banning are these sorts of experiments, with that political will already present at the state level, I don’t see a program like this lasting even a decade, let alone a century. And that’s assuming there are no unexpected side effects, imagine running on, “Chemtrails are real and giving you cancer but we have to keep doing them, for the environment,” and that platform has to win every election forever. And you’re lecturing the skeptics about “hubris?”

Even if you ignore the political problems, it’s a temporary, stopgap solution. You’ve got this all backwards, if we do this without addressing the root problem of emissions, things will keep getting worse until we’re in the exact same boat down the road but also we have to keep doing cloud seeding forever. And if your plan is to just increase the intensity of cloud seeding indefinitely to address that, then congrats on finding the closest real thing to the Futurama solution of “dropping ever larger ice cubes into the ocean.”

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