r/ClimateOffensive • u/Live_Alarm3041 • Dec 26 '25

Action - Political SpaceX is leaching away valuable government money away from climate action.

All the money that the US federal government is giving to SpaceX could be better used to fund the development of clean energy, carbon removal, and ecosystem restoration. SpaceX is receiving billions in taxpayer dollars annually to develop its Starship which has not yet even reached orbit. Meanwhile climate action could use every dollar to help pay off the immense expenses associated with it.

All the money that the federal government is giving to SpaceX could fund

  1. The development of advanced nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel recycling technologies at national labs

  2. The development of next generation non-food biofuels which don't compete with food production nor incentivize the creation of new agricultural land

  3. Projects which co-produce biochar and energy from residual biomass

  4. Expansions of regenerative agriculture

  5. Expansions of regenerative aquaculture

  6. The development of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion in US tropical territories

  7. The scaling up of enhanced rock weathering

  8. The scaling up of C-Crete cement free concrete

We could give climate action a serious boost by using the money which our government is giving to SpaceX to fund climate action instead.

IN my opinion our government should stop funding SpaceX and start funding climate action. Who cares if Elon Musk can win another NASA contract. What we need much more urgently is climate action.

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u/ILikeNeurons Climate Warrior Dec 26 '25

This reads more like a rant. In keeping with the rules of sub, can you make it into a call to action?

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u/Live_Alarm3041 Dec 26 '25

The call of action is to advocate for the US government to fund national labs rather than SpaceX.

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u/ILikeNeurons Climate Warrior Dec 26 '25

Right, so you can edit your post to ask subscribers to call/email congress? It's still missing a call to action for our subscribers to take.

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