We Can’t Hack our Climate, Bill

Solar Geoengineering: Spraying particles into the atmosphere to block the sun, thereby reducing global warming. One of the latest innovations backed by wealthy do-gooders like Bill Gates

Gates is the founder of arguably the most successful tech company ever. Why are we surprised that he, and others like him, want to use new technology to fix our complex problem of climate change. New technology is precisely what he does, and what ‘made’ him. It is also the source of his huge wealth. Very rich, technology-minded, old people will not want to work together over the coming decades to grind out a method of policy upheaval and societal shift to slowly treat the root cause of climate change.

1) they haven’t got decades to spare at their age and patience. 2) The mindset that made them rich is precisely a mindset we have to drop in order to progress. 3) Their identity is too challenged by entertaining the idea that the ‘answer’ may not involve more technology and more linear thinking.

Pumping calcium carbonate, sulphur dioxide or sea water into the atmosphere might work. But it is an expensive, resource hungry, band-aid fix to a huge, complex problem.

Mass diversity loss, desertification, mega fires = climate change.