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| A new security patch for the planet - or is it a patent? |
I fear this is exactly the way we, or they, are headed: 'saving the planet' (like saving the world, or anything else, before it) is to be, not a corrective, but the triumph of the ways of thinking and acting that have got us to the state we are in and from which we seek salvation. It is to be the latest, greatest way of spending, and making money. It will be brought to us by the (pardon the irony) elect. I'm sure Goldman Sachs, those workers of God's work, will be in on it somewhere - in fact, if you follow the links, I think you find they are.
Meanwhile, here in the UK, we may not have Bill Gates's billions (we've already given them to him after all), but we do have the rich tradition of Heath Robinson to draw upon. Our very own SPICE, Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering, has plans to use a balloon to lift a a 20km long hosepipe which can inject particles into the stratosphere to reflect some of the sun's energy so reducing warming of the Earth's surface. It's not a joke. Sponsored perhaps by Hoselock Killerspray.
