Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
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The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.

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  • The D Quuuuuill ( Quill7513@slrpnk.net ) English
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    11 months ago

    it’s less important for the far right who currently holds control to do things than it is to be seen as doing things. i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every outlandish conspiracy theory is a distraction from a believable conspiracy. this does a few things:

    1. makes people who talk about conspiracies sound like nuts
    2. creates a legion of true believers who will dismiss the true conspiracies as lies
    3. normalizes the audacity of the worst of the conspiracy theories so that when someone starts conducting the framework for the false conspiracy everyone just kinda rolls with it

    chemtrails are, ultimately, a distraction from that what’s poisoning our air and water isn’t additives in jet exhaust, but instead the byproducts of burning fossil fuels like jet fuel. by addressing chemtrails without addressing fossil fuels, the ruling class performed a bit of trickery. for the people who believe in chemtrails and are worried about the poisoning of our air and water, this is now a solved problem. for the people who aren’t keyed in hardly at all, this seems like a compromise between the right and the left, and like some progress is being made to protect our natural habitats.

    if we want to survive our most powerful weapon is to continue speaking truth into the world

    • rayyy ( rayyy@piefed.social ) English
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      11 months ago

      I would like to think that speaking the truth is the solution but it only works with those who actually have the capacity to think and reason. In contrast, big money has the luxury of buying and promoting the media view points that they want us to believe. Most people take the easy route that doesn’t involve the work of thinking. Discerning truth is work - believing bullshit is the easy route. It has been my experience that both those on the left, and right, fall for the “chemtrail” crap.
      As climate change kills folks off, some will survive by learning.
      When people begin to starve or become homeless they will be forced to confront survival rather than conspiracy nonsense.

  • lolola ( lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) deleted by creator
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    11 months ago

    Several weeks ago I overheard two of my neighbors making small talk about the weather, and how it would be perfect if it weren’t for all those gosh-darned chemtrails everywhere.

    That is the view of reality that is guiding public policy today.

    • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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      11 months ago

      We COULD see fewer contrails.

      It require voting for leaders and lawmakers who will give airlines insentives to reduce their environmental impact. It could be regulation, taxes, tax breaks, wharever works best to reduce harm from aviation.

      • bss03 ( bss03@infosec.pub ) 
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        11 months ago

        I remember the video saying that the airline they engaged with for the study and one other airline were already implementing the changes voluntarily.

        While I agree that the right leaders and policies continue to be important, even on this very specific issue, I believe we’ll see an improvement without another round of voting.

  • No1 ( No1@aussie.zone ) 
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    11 months ago

    Good. Next we need to get laws passed banning big pharma from putting 5G chips in vaccines.

    Then we can pass a law banning autism in vaccines.

    Or just ban vaccines. I don’t know, I’m not a doctor. Whatever Dr Oz and RFK Jr says.

  • Dogyote ( Dogyote@slrpnk.net ) 
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    11 months ago

    It’s obvious what’s going on here. The majority of Republican leaders, along with a few democrats, are actually aliens from a warmer planet. They’re here to prepare Earth for the arrival of their civilization, who has already fled their dying world. They’re expecting their arrival in the near future.

    The aliens that are already here have infiltrated government, traditional media, and social media organizations around the world and are working to ensure we ignore the science and continue dumping CO2 into the atmosphere. If everything continues “business as usual,” then our planet will be nearing perfection by their deadline.

    One of the feasible ways we could cool our planet down is by using airplanes to spray aerosolized sulfates into the stratosphere. We’ve already been accidentally doing this by burning certain fuels. When “we” recently agreed to stop using such fuels, warming accelerated. Some human scientists have noticed this and believe it would be possible to spray the sulfates in the stratosphere where they would be more effective at cooling the planet and less environmentally damaging than emitting from the ground.

    That is why they’re making a preemptive attack on chemtrails, although there is some internal disagreement among the aliens about whether this is the best course of action. One faction believes it is more straightforward to accelerate warming now, hence outlawing sulfate containing fuels and preemptively banning chemtrails. The other faction reasons it would be more disruptive to actually allow chemtrails for cooling purposes. Their thinking is that they could continue to prevent humans from cutting emissions, but allow the humans to artificially cool the planet. The level of CO2 would continue to increase, and then, for spurious economic or geopolitical reasons, the flights would be stopped and therefore the cooling mask pulled off, resulting in a sudden temperature increase. This could be more disruptive than the straightforward plan since it would be more chaotic.