Yet More Wool

As if to double down on this new industry propaganda push, the NY Times has a piece wondering if we can "engineer our way out of the climate crisis". Question mark. It informs us about direct air capture schemes and possible atmospheric aerosol spraying, about CO2 sequestration and the "economics" of all this absurd bullshit. What the reporters fail to account for is the cost to the biosphere that all this insane new infrastructure entails. Giant metal machines that suck air and process it and pump it. The human energy that goes into building this science fiction. To their credit, the reporters due quote some opposition voices who point out the obvious; that this fantasy has opportunity costs, that it is all eleborate theater to keep fossil fuel profits rolling in. But they leave the readers with a question mark, as if there is a real debate about the validity of this engineering. And of course it is all subsidized by taxpayers and oblivious, naive capitalists like Bill Gates who are willing to buy carbon credits. Hoping to pay for their sins, to repent and be saved. Two days later: Open the Times to yet another article about geoengineering; this time they are reporting on some experiments to blow micro-salt particles into clouds so as to "brighten" them and make them reflect more sunlight back into space. The article makes the same point all the others do; now that it is obvious that there will be no stopping fossil fuels, we need other options. Even if they are insane science fiction. In other words the obvious solution won't be considered. Get used to it. Invest in hazmat suits and ammunition.