Augustus Doricko

We operate all over the Western US.

someday, like, I don't think drought is the only thing that we should solve.

If you could engineer away severe weather, flooding, if you can mitigate hurricanes, if you can mitigate hail, you know, you'd have to do a lot of experiments to prove it was safe first, but

why would we let the Eastern seaboard of the United States keep getting blasted with hurricanes if we could build a solution for it?

No, we wouldn't because –

You know, it would take decades to make this air green.

You'd have to do that step by step, piece by piece.

It'd be a very slow process.

And with cloud seeding, you could turn it off whenever you want.

So in that long process of trying to do large scale terraforming, you would be able to stop at any point if you didn't like what was happening from producing more water in one place versus the other.

I don't think we would have to have a solution at the drop of a hat.

And also on the flip, even if we did, and I think that we don't, right?

Because it would take so long to deploy this tech to cause these things.

Like, there is suffering now.

There's $140 billion in damage done by hurricanes every year in the U.S.

There's hundreds of billions of dollars in crop failures every year in the U.S.

from lack of water.

So it's not that, like, this tech is without risk, but, like, there is a horrible problem right now because there isn't enough water and because we have severe weather and, like,

I guess in principle, right?

You want to fill the immediate need.