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    • GorGorEnglish
      40·
      4 个月前

      we are seeing a resurgence of New World Screwworms. We eradicated it in the US in 1966, however, we have since seen a resurgence. Basically we used sterile males to make sure no new worms would be born in the US but thats a big border, so we worked with Mexico and other north and Central American countries to push it down past panama. Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them? and kill funding. So now we are going to have to spend a shitload more money to defend our wide ass border, rather than a fraction of the cost defending a natural border.

      • SanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialEnglish
        15·
        4 个月前

        Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them?

        That’s the problem - they don’t think, but instead react according to their lifelong programming from bullying. They’ve been trained by their masters since childhood not to reason anything out beyond the shortest path to one of a set of predefined conclusions. It’s so instinctive by the time they’re adults (teens, really) that they have absolutely no clue it’s what they’re actually doing deep down.

  • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
    49·
    4 个月前

    They said that 15 years ago too. Bill Gates was too busy bailing out monsanto and advocating for the systematic poisoning of watersheds with pesticides under false arguments, evangelizing for geo engineering, spraying aerosols en masse in the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun, (because he’s so smart he knows exactly how that’s going to play out,) and fucking children with Epstein to finish the job on Guinea worms.

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        32·
        4 个月前

        You do realize geo engineering is spraying sulfur dioxide or other aerosol or dust into the upper atmosphere to block the sun to combat global warming. It’s not a conspiracy it’s an open debate that’s been ongoing for decades. That you would immediately associate it with chemtrails shows either a profound ignorance borne of being a tool of influence operations playing you like a fiddle, or worse no?

        Geo engineering is reported on in Newspapers, as it was when the conference held every year in switzerland happened and it mentioned Bill Gates is one of the people, they coordinate on selling the controversial practice, selling it to the public, and governments that will pay for it, etc.

        • ViperActual@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          4 个月前

          Humans have been doing the whole sulfur dioxide thing for decades. In 2020 cargo ships began to use fuels with less sulfur in them to reduce sulfur dioxide output. The result, was a marked increase in sea surface temperatures because the aerosols used to help block some of the sunlight.

          It’s arguable to call it geoengineering as that implies purposeful engineering is ongoing. Whereas we were literally just burning sulfur rich fuels for cargo ships.

          The reason people associate it with chemtrails is because sulfur dioxide is touted as a key component in the exhaust trails left behind by aircraft. While there may be trace amounts of the stuff in jet exhaust, this is not purposeful geoengineering as it’s just a byproduct of fossil fuel use. A more visible one because it’s easy to look up in the sky and see planes leaving trails compared to seeing the faint haze left behind by cargo ships in the middle of the ocean.

          Cloud seeding is a thing in very small regional efforts for promoting cloud cover and even rainfall. And these are purposefully done to achieve those two outcomes. Usually they’re done near dry places that have too much sun and not enough water. Despite some of these operations taking place, their effects are miniscule when compared to the scale of global operations that aren’t trying to purposefully do any geoengineering.