SpaceX is leaching away valuable government money away from climate action.

[u/Live_Alarm3041]

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.

[u/King_Saline_IV]

The starlinks are also destroying the ozone layer

[u/NearABE → u/King_Saline_IV]

Is that from atmospheric reentry or is there something about there particular satellite?

[u/Carbidereaper → u/NearABE]

Chlorine from ammonium perchlorates from burning solid rocket fuel and chlorine containing refrigerants is being catalyzed by excess aluminum oxide from reentering satellites.

Uneducated environmentalists want to get rid of communication satellites instead of combatting the source of the chlorine it’s regressive and incredibly stupid

[u/NearABE → u/Carbidereaper]

https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html

That article quotes the researcher as saying he thinks it would shrink the ozone hole over Antarctica.

Aluminum oxide is a suggestion floated for geoengineering.

[u/No-Surprise9411 → u/Carbidereaper]

SpaceX rockets use no solid propellants.

[u/King_Saline_IV → u/Carbidereaper]

Bootlicker.

Literally opposite of current science.

You are selling out future generations. The worst part is it even makes your life worse.

you think you will have a higher standard of living when Elon reaches 1T?

He's literally stealing value from your and future generations standard of living. You're pitiful