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"A Sky Looming With Danger
Modern chemtrail conspiracies are wrong of course, but they reveal the consequential ways that different belief systems impact the invisible atmosphere.
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When Hurricanes Helene and then Milton hit in the autumn of 2024, pundits across social media began speculating that the storms were the product of climatic engineering. Meteorologists attempting to warn local residents even received death threats for supposedly obscuring the government’s role in weather manipulation. Last August, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to a tweet about chemtrails, saying: 'We are going to stop this crime.' This year, as the newly minted secretary of health and human services, he said that he suspects these chemicals are being infused into jet fuel by DARPA. Meanwhile, legislators in states like Florida and Alabama have attempted to ban nonexistent chemtrail geoengineering practices.
Attempts by mainstream commentators to make sense of these persistent conspiracies have tended to characterize them as either stubborn fantasy — 'beyond ridiculous,' as Joe Biden put it in an address — or the product of a muddied and fractured media landscape. Yet the rampant misinformation, shameless politicians and profit-driven platforms amplifying these narratives fail to fully explain the allure of these conspiracies.
Conflicting beliefs about the nature of the air predate digital echo chambers and modern environmental disasters. If we look further back, we can begin to develop a deeper understanding of what these aerial controversies really are: not mere delusions to be brushed off or misunderstandings to be fact-checked, not just dangerous misconceptions potentially leading to violent acts. Ultimately, they are the expression of a tension in how humans materialize the world itself.
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Both now and then, the question of what is or isn’t in the air is under a spotlight amid political turmoil and social fracture. Air is a magnetic medium for people’s conflicted thoughts and suspicions to express themselves, a blank canvas upon which assumptions about the world and our role in it can be projected."