How putting down our devices, regenerative re-greening, and beavers will save the west…

By Paul Bean

I spent the last week in the Colorado High Desert with one of my best friends from my college days back at the University of Vermont.

On this journey, I learned a ton about the drought and water scarcity issues they are dealing with in the American west. 

My friend from school, Bennett, recently decided to go entirely ‘analog’ and has completely abandoned his smart phone. Increasingly he is removing technology in all ways possible. He’s given up his beloved YouTube and is using an MP3 player for music. Instead of constantly using Bluetooth speakers and wireless technology he’s gotten really into vinyl records. 

He’s got an old digital camera that takes really cool aesthetic photos like the one below. All of the incredible photos in this article were taken with his camera.

He’s even going as far to write down directions before going somewhere to become less dependent on Google maps and the like— something I think many of us do not realize how challenging it is to go without.

While we certainly ran into some interesting obstacles together navigating his personal shift in tech, a newfound ‘space’ was found in our interactions that allowed us to get deep into topics on life.

As part of his shift in his relationship with technology has been a deepening in his relationship with nature and of course in Colorado there is no shortage of opportunities to immerse yourself within nature. I have to give my buddy a lot of credit. Many years ago he was one of my only friends in school I could share my thoughts and concerns on geoengineering whilst others would scoff at me and maybe even laugh in my face. 

Naturally, the chemtrail conversation came up a handful of times throughout our conversation on our hike up the tallest peak in Colorado, Mt Elbert, as the skies overhead were littered with chemtrails and fake clouds on what was supposed to be a bluebird day. 

Before we get into that I should point out:

Last week, our good friend Augustus Doricko announced that his company, Rainmaker, has recently launched “the largest cloud-seeding project in American History,” in Colorado’s border state, Utah. 

“We can refill the Great Salt Lake,” writes Augustus in a post on X last week.“This month, Rainmaker began the largest cloud seeding project in modern American history. With Utah and Idaho, we are enhancing snowpack across 7,500 square miles of the Bear River Basin.”

He continues, “Economizing water us is part of what it means to be a good steward of our God given resources, but reducing consumption alone will not suffice. We must make more water, so @RainmakerCorp will make more snow.”

Now before we get into the weeds on “making water” and “economizing water” as part of being a “good steward of God given Resources,” we ought to point out that there are a lot of root causes of water scarcity and drought that he completely unknown to him and his overlords or they are simply ignored.

Like so many of our issues today, geoengineering and weather modification are a perfect mirror of the medical industry and how poorly we treat our ‘dis-ease’— treating the symptom rather than the root causes. 

This lapse in human behavior is rooted in a lack of awareness, knowledge, and understanding of our relationship to nature.

I’m going to be very hard on Augustus Doricko today and throughout this series, but I am doing it from a place of love because I will continue to give him the benefit of the doubt because of my respect for his entrepreneurial spirit and all of the young Americans who work for him. 

I make the case that because Augustus Doricko and his company “Rainmaker” is overall environmentally unconscious, uneducated, and that he should not be allowed to do what he is doing because of his lack of awareness. 

He doesn’t know or even understand any solutions that are aligned with nature, nor what’s causing the drought and so-called ‘climate change’ to begin with. 

The people of Utah who have approved this project need a reality check as well…

Over the next few days I will continue to drop around three total parts on a series of real solutions to geoengineering, so-called ‘climate change,’ and our increasing dependency on a technological grid that is seeking to enslave us.

I believe my friend Bennett is setting one of the most important examples for solutions to our problem of dependency on technology, which is exactly what geoengineering is an expansion of.

Each and every one of us has a responsibility to redefine our relationship with our phones and our digital identities as a whole. 

Putting down our devices and looking up is an incredible step in the right direction and we can all start making these changes right at home. 

I look forward to sharing with you more solutions going forward, but in the meantime…

Thanks for tuning in.

EYES ON OUR SKY!