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The current terraforming and transhumanist agenda is driven by the military industrial complex. I wonder why folks do t want to discuss this.

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Would anyone like to discuss this current ongoing impact?

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If by transhumanism, you mean how some people want to upload human consciousness into computers, yeah that's pretty messed up. I hadn't made the link with the MIC but I would totally believe it's there given Big Tech's obsession with transhumanism, and the ever closer ties between the MIC and Big Tech.

By terraforming, do you mean terraforming of other planets? Cuz those ideas are totally whack.

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Hi. No. Neither of those which are superficial realities to what is and has been happening. I lost a longer response and will elaborate more fully if you would like that.

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The climate change narrative has shifted several times. One feature that is not considered in the general public discourse is the fact that geoengineering has been happening since the nineties. This reality (documented extensively by Clifford Carnicom) sets this kind of news in context as a coming out of sorts. Now that the climate change narrative is established in the main stream, the actual history and intention is being obscured by the save a planet from climate change narrative.

If we look at the evidence we find a very different agenda.

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Just saw that your other comment is lower on the thread.

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I got that longer response in my email re. geoengineering, etc. I have friends who focus on those issues more than me, so they're on the margin of my awareness. For example, I have a friend on the East Coast who has been working to pass regulation of plane-delivered atmospheric geoengineering activity in her state legislature. Admittedly, these issues have not been central to my own research and writing, so I don't know enough to discuss them.

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I agree with every word that you wrote. I have also been anti-war as long as I could remember. I was also thinking recently about the terrible environmental effects of war, including its murdering of all non-human species in addition to the human ones; its destruction of habitats; and its polluting the earth, water and air.

There is nothing good that comes out of war; some say war leads to peace. This is total nonesense. How about cooperation and diplomacy and peace first. Or is that not good for the war industry?

As for making a nuclear facility of any kind safe, I know a bit about that, having worked one summer as an engineering student at a nuclear plant. I want to remind readers that plutonium has a half life of 25,000 years. That means it will take 250,000 years before anything in proximity to it will be considered "safe" from radioactivity due to gamma radiation.

This is an excellent, excellent essay. You saved me the time and effort of writing one. I will restack this.

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Thanks so much, Perry! I'm glad you appreciate it.

And I didn't know that about plutonium. It's worse than I thought!

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I should make it clear that applies to Pu-239, which is the one used for nuclear or atomic weapons. They taught me well at the nuclear facility.

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Wow. Thankyou. My wife has family in Lao, who have been in the wrong place at the wrong time an lost limbs. Unreal. May peace prevail somehow. At least in our hearts.

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You're welcome. I'm so sorry to hear about her family! May peace prevail, indeed.

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Totally agree, ecological desasters of war are not often enough reported on or protested against, so it's great that you write about it.

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Wow. Thank you for informing me, that is absolutely terrifying.

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Hi Kollibri, Thanks for this. I've been collecting links to research and reporting on this distressing subject for years. I've just added your comprehensive essay to the top of the list which resides here: https://mainenaturalguard.wordpress.com

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Thanks so much, Lisa!

I enjoyed interviewing you for my podcast back in 2020. I hope you've been doing well. Glad to see the Maine Natural Guard is still on duty!

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What a damning and excellently argued piece. I remember a botanist giving a talk at one of my undergrad seminars arguing that the biggest global environmental threat wasn’t climate change but nuclear warfare. Not mutually exclusive but often overlooked.

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Thank you very much. I put a lot of work into it!

I didn't go into it here, but in my reading it was mentioned that nuclear winter would exacerbate climate change by damaging the ozone layer and increasing ocean acidification. Also, the cooling would be temporary because eventually the particulates would settle out of the atmosphere so at some point we'd be back to warming again.

I really don't like thinking about it and it was hard to read and write about it, tbh.

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I can imagine, not a fun subject to be immersed in, even if important

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Scary too

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Thank you for such a great piece of writing

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No I’m not writing about those two aspects of these ongoing efforts. I’m specifically writing about the military industrial complex’s efforts via geoengineered terraforming that’s currently being documented by Many individuals and the nanotech and cross domain bacteria that are being delivered to all life on the planet via the same geoengineering, vaccines and the food supply. All this is driven by the military industrial complex. Patents and ongoing research is available.

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You're welcome! I agree the topic doesn't get enough attention.

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