On Feb 17, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Poster's note : this historical news piece almost certainly incorrectly > points the finger of blame - a large low pressure system and a cold front > combined to cause the flood. Nevertheless, it's instructive of the > controversies we can expect in a geoengineered world.
I really cannot emphasize this enough. In a world with any large-scale engineered climate modification — SRM or CDR — every unusual weather event will be blamed on the geoengineering process by someone. The more visible and controversial the effort, the more people will accuse it of having “screwed up the planet.” Geoengineering countries/groups will be insulted, sued, and possibly even physically attacked by people who fully believe that the oddly large storm or lengthy drought or whatever had nothing to do with natural variations or climate change, and everything to do with arrogant Westerners/scientists/capitalists thinking that they can control the planet. It won’t be limited to chemtrail crackpots, or ETC, or whichever local equivalent of Fox News gets ahold of the issue. This will be taken seriously by people in positions of governmental authority, mostly (but not exclusively) in locations that feel left out of the decision-making process or feel buffeted about by historical, political, and geophysical events over which they have no control. Here’s a parallel example from a few years ago that illustrates what I mean: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802919.html <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/08/AR2008080802919.html> > ..."viral sovereignty." This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of > Indonesia's minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly > viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations -- even though they > cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the peoples of the > world. It’s not rational, it’s not globally-minded, it’s not long-term thinking. It is an effort to grasp some measure of control over an out-of-control situation. -Jamais Cascio -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
