Stop Solar Geo

What?

  • Campaign by Swedish indigenous people to stop planned research on SRM in Sweden.

Summary

  • Solar Geoengineering cannot be controlled: it will escape the hands of those doing research
  • Like all other tech it is not a tool against climate injustice
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Article full of fallacies

Notes

What's wrong with "It's just about research"

  • Technology needs to be developed to perform the research. Technology used in research will eventually be used to deploy. It will escape the scientist's control.
  • We never managed to control GMOs, human cloning, weapons, pathogens ...
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Human cloning?? If we cannot control technology that comes out of research, we cannot control the research in the first place: someone WILL do the research
  • Termination shock alone shows that this should not be done
  • Even the studies cannot give us an idea of the real risk
  • Fallacy of believing in a plan B: It is a distraction from reduction

Climate justice

  • SCoPEx (project by Harvard in northern Sweden), was done without consulting local Sami Council = this shows this technology will not be used to protect the most impacted / it is not for their benefit
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Worst argument ever
  • No one ever listens to the global south ... why would it start now?