Going full Ice Witch on the sky reflects the modern world’s futile attempt to control nature, oftentimes regardless of the cost.
NASA scientists have revealed that their latest plan to combat climate change is to spread ice across the upper atmosphere with planes. Their theory is that these ice particles will freeze water that normally, in vapor form, would warm the planet but, as ice, would be inert.
The scientists are aware that this proposition has significant risks as it currently stands and that it cannot be currently implemented. It only serves right now as a “last-ditch toolbox” to stop the alleged imminent threat posed by climate change.
The concern lies in what will happen when this is implemented. What if climate change theories are even slightly incorrect? In the global hysteria over the issue, many groups are pursuing ambitious operations that pose great threats to humans if they are handled impatiently and recklessly.
In 2022, Entrepreneur Luke Iseman launched weather balloons packed with sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere with the specific intention of having them explode and spread the chemicals through the air. In defiance of public concerns over polluting the air, his defense was, “I don’t think waiting for an [institutional review board] is acceptable in this situation.”
Europe wants very badly to go green. Most countries seek to ban the use of nonrenewable energy in heaters as soon as possible. The problem is that as of 2020, 42% of nonrenewable energy consumption came from buildings, with 67% of that coming from houses. Europe risks forcing its people to freeze in its push toward renewable energy.
The European Union may not care as much, however, because it seeks to reduce net greenhouse emissions by 2030 at all costs. For this reason, it has waged war on the farmer population by buying out or taxing farms into the ground to slaughter their cows for their carbon flatulence. This and more have compelled European farmers to blockade, besiege, and riot against their overlords.
This sort of dangerous decision-making based on mass hysteria has happened before. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Malthusianism gripped the academic and political sectors. False fears of the possible threat of global starvation due to overpopulation led to the euthanasia, sterilization, and abortion of undesirables across the world.
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Perhaps the worst example is China. In 1980, the communist government implemented a one-child policy to cull the undesirables, normally girls, from its national population based on Malthusian principles. Untold millions of babies were forcefully aborted, children murdered, and women sterilized. 36 years later, China had inadvertently created a class of 30 million men who do not have enough women to marry and who also struggle to carry the weight of the aging population.
History has proven that when man plays God by attempting to exert control over nature itself, humanity suffers greatly as punishment. NASA would do well to keep this in mind.
Parker Miller is a 2024 Washington Examiner Winter Fellow.
