The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill targeting “chemtrails.”

SB 2691/HB 2063, sponsored by Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, and Sen. Steve Southerland, R-Morristown, passed in the Senate on Monday. The bill has yet to advance in the House.

The bill claims it is “documented the federal government or other entities acting on the federal government’s behalf or at the federal government’s request may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere, and those activities may occur within the State of Tennessee,” according to the bill.

The legislation would ban the practice in Tennessee.

“The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited,” the bill reads.

The bill is scheduled to go to the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    8 months ago

    I mean I support this bill. The solution to the climate catastrophe is a carbon tax and eventual carbon burning ban.

    We need to shutdown these stupid ideas of geoentineering cooked up by the oil industry.

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        8 months ago

        Its valid to ban something before it exists, however.

        Nobody is disputing that oil companies are pouring money into geoentineering bullshit so they can continue to pollute.

    • blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      the solution is the overthrow of the global capitalist system, the transition of energy to solar, nuclear, wind, hydroelectric, etc. then banning cars, transitioning to 100% electric infrastructure

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      8 months ago

      they aren’t good ideas but we dont seem to be doing much about our emissions, so research into potential methods to delay the problem doesn’t seem terrible. (as long as its not exploited to continue doing nothing)