There are so many theories as to why. Killing their tax cattle wholesale never sat right with me. So thought about it for a long while. Remember FarmAid? Remember when they started insuring crops both privately and with govt subsidies and disaster relief? This was the 70s and early 80s. The same time Monsanto was preparing to roll out Roundup, and the same time geoengineering was openly discussed, the same time global warming became a thing and the same time autism took a spike.
But farming isn't speculative. You can't fix a lack of crop with a donation. At the end of the day you MUST have product, for all other industries that rely on farming. So it was also expensive for every level, every aspect of cloth production, leather production, glue, plastics, other farming or branching sectors, All US exports, and not least of all, ALL US food production. From wheat, to sugar, to fruit and veg, and all meat production.
So what if they started geoengineering, to legit try to stabilize the weather. Regular rain, less hail, fewer tornados maybe, less snow. Sounds great from a farming and insuring farmers standpoint. That was VERY expensive. Expensive for insurance companies and farmers and govt to be sure.
But they messed with something they didn't understand. It had unexpected knock-on effects. They kept trying, but it wasn't helping, and stopping might have a snap-back effect, and the cost was too high, they were up to thier necks.
Running the program was also increasingly expensive, and other countries noticed and started too. When it was just NA should they have guessed that fucking with weather in one place might fuck with it in another totally clueless country? Probably. How many people did it kill inadvertently? How many leaders caught on and got pissed.
Now when the want to "save the world" via tax money, it makes sense. Globalize the program. But that wouldn't sell well, so they tried the usually effective fear mongering. It worked for the Ozone lie after all.
I think the current administration is attempting to roll it back here, but if Russia and Europe keep doing it, it could fuck us. It seems to have stopped abruptly where I am at, right after election. Then restarted, then slowly eased back. If Cali was wondering where it's snow had gone, well, Russia, Canada and the central states were stealing it. Not this year though.
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It's not benign if it keeps the industrial machine turning so they never have to pause the skimming. The turned farms into factories and farmers into mindless zombies.