It is time to discuss the giant elephant in the sky. Those lingering and eerie webs being sprayed above us. The pilots playing tic-tac-toe with their on and off switch for the poison. Most likely, all of them are newly licensed and have no idea what they are actually spraying.

Here’s how we imagine a hypothetical reason given from a higher up chain of command would go: “These chemicals are to assist in decreasing the devastating effects of man-made climate change, to help save the planet. So go spray this gaseous suspension of fine solid and liquid particles out of your plane over the whole globe, including densely populated areas, to dim the sun. It will help decrease our carbon footprint ten-fold, and we need your help to solve this impending disaster now!” They would be quite persuasive, we imagine.

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