Re: [geo] Opinion Article on HOME campaign by ETC Group

2013-05-09 Thread Lou Grinzo
The notion that geoengineering disempowers those in developing countries is a very odd argument, IMO. How many times do we need to see analyses that say developing countries will be very seriously impacted by climate change before we're willing to say that they have such a huge incentive to s

Re: [geo] Opinion Article on HOME campaign by ETC Group

2013-05-08 Thread Ken Caldeira
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Max Mogren wrote: > Re:#1 I call chemotherapy a techno-fix for cancer (and a criminally > expensive one at that). Less techno-based fixes for cancer include banning > carcinogenic products/chemicals/pesticides, promoting vegetarianism, > Vitamin B17, and good old

Re: [geo] Opinion Article on HOME campaign by ETC Group

2013-05-07 Thread Ken Caldeira
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" (un