"Deep in the ocean west of British Columbia, salmon eat
fish and plankton before they head inland to spawn. Well-fed enough to
make it upriver, they swim back toward the coast and past the islands of
Haida Gwaii, where the area’s indigenous population fishes them.
That’s how it was for decades. But in the 2000s, fish populations were declining, and unemployment among the Haida was high.
Enter an eccentric San Francisco-based entrepreneur named
Russ George. He had spent much of his career bouncing between ambitious
environmental projects: cold fusion, reforestation, and, most recently
at the time, a startup called Planktos, which focused on something
called “ocean restoration.”
In 2011, George told the Haida residents of the village
of Old Massett that he could bring back the salmon. The plan? To drop a
hundred tons of iron dust in the middle of the ocean, a few hundred
nautical miles west of the islands. The method had been tried before,
but George was attempting it at a larger scale."
#geoengineering #fish #oceans #globalheating #climatechange
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