Naomi Klein is wrong. I do not see any substantial subset of people researching geoengineering who see it as a way to avoid doing the hard work of reducing emissions.
For most, researching 'geoengineering' is an expression of despair at the fact that others are unwilling to do the hard work of reducing emissions. _______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 kcalde...@carnegiescience.edu http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab @kencaldeira On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Andrew Lockley <andrew.lock...@gmail.com>wrote: > Poster's note : short extract below discussing geoengineering. Full > interview is very good. It basically describes why I left the green > movement - they're all out of ideas and they have no solutions left. I > don't agree with her conclusions, however - especially on geoengineering. > > > http://www.salon.com/2013/09/05/naomi_klein_big_green_groups_are_crippling_the_environmental_movement_partner/ > > You were talking about the Clean Development Mechanism as a sort of > disaster capitalism. Isn’t geoengineering the ultimate disaster capitalism? > > I certainly think it’s the ultimate expression of a desire to avoid doing > the hard work of reducing emissions, and I think that’s the appeal of it. I > think we will see this trajectory the more and more climate change becomes > impossible to deny. A lot of people will skip right to geoengineering. The > appeal of geoengineering is that it doesn’t threaten our worldview. It > leaves us in a dominant position. It says that there is an escape hatch. So > all the stories that got us to this point, that flatter ourselves for our > power, will just be scaled up. > > -- > 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. > 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
