It seems their critique boils down to: (1) It is a "techno-fix" (2) They claim (without substantiation) that it disempowers people from developing countries (3) That it would need to be deployed at large scale.
While (3) is clearly right, I think few people see solar geoengineering as a "fix" (unless you call chemotherapy a "techno-fix" for cancer). My sense is that they are wrong on (2). Solar geoengineering may be seen as empowering relatively poor tropical countries to take control (or at least to threaten to take control) of their own climate-- countries that may see crop failure as a result of CO2 emissions largely from rich countries. CO2 emissions on a massive scale is something that mostly rich countries do. Solar geoengineering is something that poor countries can do. On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Geoengineering Our Climate (eds. Blackstock, Miller and Rayner) <geoengineeringourclim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > The ETC Group penned an Opinion Article (1500 words) on the HOME > campaign's opposition to climate engineering for the 'Geoengineering Our > Climate?' Series, accompanied by excerpts of a video-interview with Jeff > Tollefson. > > You can find this at http://geoengineeringourclimate.com/, where once per > week for the next year, we will release either a Working Paper (5000 words, > academic analyses) or an Opinion Article (1500 words, practitioner-oriented > perspective). In 2015, these will be collected into an edited volume > published by Earthscan from Routledge's Science in Society Series. > > I've also attached the PDF here. > > Best wishes, > > Sean Low > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
