Clive Hamilton: It’s rich white blokes saying, ‘well we’ve got to take control of this problem and we’re going to engineer the atmosphere’.
I just find that the most audacious and terrifying proposal that humans have ever put forward. Fundamentally, the technological capabilities of human beings are far in advance of the psychological maturity, which is why I think if we embark on geoengineering built on the psychological predisposition and weakness that have given us climate change we are only going to make the problem worse. I think we are insufficiently evolved as a species to responsibly intervene in the earth’s atmosphere."
United Nations science body calls for halt on climate-hacking experiments
Geoengineering moratorium proposal will go to UN Biodiversity Convention. A formal recommendation for a moratorium on all climate geoengineering activities is being sent to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for consideration by its 193 member governments when the CBD gathers in Nagoya Japan this October.
Naomi Klein: It’s time to learn the lesson of humility.
"How dare they claim the right to block the sun? To colour the clouds? To change the chemistry of the ocean? Look at the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. If we learn one lesson from this disaster, let it be that we cannot control the effects of our technology, nor is our technology capable of fixing the Earth disruptions that we unleash. It's time for some collective humility in the face of awesome natural forces, not more eco-hubris." - Naomi Klein, author "The Shock Doctrine"
Kari Polanyi Levitt: The Pandora’s box of geo-engineering should remain closed
"There is a legend in our family that, shortly before his death, Einstein expressed regret in having contributed to the science that made the atomic bomb. In a conversation with our family friend, Leo Szillard, he said, “the ancient sages were right: it is better to do nothing.” Szillard, and other atomic scientists of those times, shared Einstein’s regret.
