What?
Summary
Notes
Oppose field experiments and deployment
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
Instead we need economic, political, social and cultural.
Mother Earth is our home.
Geoengineering violates its integrity.
We are against anyone attempting to take control of the global thermostat
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
Threatens global peace
Risks
- 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
- Distraction
Uncertainty is driving fear. No differentiation: it is all bad