Chinese Play God

Some might say you need gold to be happy but in the case of the Chinese, it was silver. In fact, it was silver iodide. The Chinese shot Silver Iodide into the clouds between 8pm on Saturday and 11:25am on Sunday causing precipitation. This process is called 'Cloud Seeding'. Other than experimentation, for what reason would the Chinese do this? “We have to seize every opportunity to increase precipitation,” explained Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, to the Global Times. “Beijing had almost no rainfall in October.” Is it wrong to play God? In the 1970s during the Vietnam War, Agent Orange as well as other environment modification technologies were feared about because they may deliberately alter and change the environment. A treaty was signed between the Soviet Union and the United States, and many others, signed ENMOD (Environmental Modification Convention). ENMOD is an international treaty that prohibits the use of military and hostile use of environmental weapons. China has not signed this treaty which gives them the ability to legally contribute to their research in drastic environmental changes. As much of the world's population watches in amazement, many question if this is considered to be playing God and if it should be allowed. Regardless of this, this is new and unique for any culture. The Chinese were seen smiling to the site of snow which is not very usual for Beijing, especially this time of the years.