Solar geoengineering: Bill Gates and other unelected billionaires and their risky experiment
The Illusion of Climate Control: Solar Geoengineering as a Risky Game with the Earth
Some billionaires are pushing a questionable alternative to the forefront of “solutions for fighting climate change”: solar geoengineering (SG). According to the analysis by Surprise & Sapinski (2021), this technology is being massively promoted by influential players from the financial and technology world, including Bill Gates.
Solar Geoengineering – A Dangerous Experiment
SG technologies such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) or cloud brightening are intended to reflect the sun’s rays in order to slow down global warming. But what sounds promising on paper is a highly risky experiment in reality. The long-term effects on weather cycles, precipitation patterns and entire ecosystems are completely unexplored. Climate researchers warn that SG could have uncontrollable side effects: shifting monsoon seasons, increasing droughts or even abrupt drops in temperature in certain regions.
But despite these dangers, SG is being increasingly promoted in climate policy. Who benefits from this?
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Who Is Funding This Experiment?
Surprise & Sapinski show that the main funding comes from private foundations and super-rich people like Bill Gates. Interestingly, the fossil fuel industry hardly plays a role anymore – instead, technology and financial capital have taken over. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and hedge fund billionaires are investing millions in research. The reason: SG offers a so-called solution that does not challenge capitalism, but rather aims to secure the status quo with minimal economic effort. One is faced with a technocratic patchwork.
Bill Gates – Once Again at the Forefront
It is no coincidence that Bill Gates is one of the most prominent proponents of SG. He was already one of the loudest voices in the mRNA vaccine debate and on the subject of genetic manipulation in agriculture. Now he is taking on the climate. The familiar pattern is repeating itself: a high-risk technology is presented as having “no alternative”, critics are ignored, while his foundations pump millions into “solutions” that only benefit himself and his corporate friends.
His foundation is funding the Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program (HSGRP), which plans to conduct one of the first field experiments. This raises fundamental ethical questions: Who has the right to tinker with the global climate? What mechanisms are in place to stop SG as soon as its harmful consequences will be widely acknowledged? And why should someone with enormous economic self-interest be portrayed as some kind of climate savior?
Conclusion: Playing With Fire
Solar geoengineering is not a solution, but a risky delaying strategy that primarily serves the elite. Bill Gates and his colleagues are trying to present themselves as pioneers of a new climate policy, while the world is being pushed in a very dangerous direction.
The real question is: do we really want to allow a few billionaires to experiment with the Earth’s climate system? The world should not become a laboratory for risky technologies that primarily serve to protect the power structures of capitalism.
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March 11, 2025