What?
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Oppose field experiments and deployment
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Dangerous
Unnecessary
Unjust
proposal to tackle climate change
It is a techno-fix to tame the effects of climate change.
False belief that today's unjust world / consumption cannot be changed No access
Instead we need economic, political, social and cultural.
Mother Earth is our home.
Geoengineering violates its integrity. No access
We are against anyone attempting to take control of the global thermostat No access No access
Geoengineering put ecosystems and human communities at risk
Geoeng is a diversion and serves to perpetuate the oil industry
Adverse effects may be worse than the cure No access
Threatens global peace No access
Risks No access
- Large scale
- Unreliable: poorly understood
- Another option for rich countries and oil industry
- Unequal: disruptions would impact poorer countries
- Untestable:
- Unilateral: because it's cheap
- Treaty violation
- Carbon profiteering: some techs can be used to make a profit through carbon trading
- New geopolitical balance favoring those who can control the climate No access
- Distraction
Uncertainty is driving fear. No differentiation: it is all bad