Greg: cc list (not keeping Simon Factor as this relates only to the new
article by Michael Branson - whose email address I could not find)
Thanks for alerting us to Mr. Branson’s extensive recent legal paper.
I agree with your recommendation to this lengthy, well referenced (>200 cites)
article relating mostly to a need for a CDR (mostly ocean-based) experimental
program.
Like most everyone, Mr. Branson briefly (cite #8b) references biochar
- but does not see that biochar is quite different from the other ocean CDR
approaches. Rather than adding a new material (descending new iron-caused
biomass), biochar (necessarily going ashore) will benificiaily remove, not add,
biomass. And that biomass formed via ocean photosynthesis will have removed
harmful excess ocean CO2.
I believe that all of Mr. Branson’s legal citations refer to harmful
additions to the ocean. And most of the CDR ocean technologies do that. But
it make no sense for biochar.
I look forward to further discussion on how to initiate the proposed
experimental CDR program. And again thank Greg for his “contrasting”
persistence on this topic.
Ron
On Jul 14, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Greg Rau <[email protected]> wrote:
> "My argument here is that such methods of geoengineering inject disturbances
> into the algae-ocean-earth system that do not seek control, but to elicit
> surprise and explicate the mechanisms of the complex permutations of their
> unpredictability, where new forms of knowledge and value are created not
> through the application of preconceived ideas or a process of commensuration,
> but through the harnessing of anticipation and the generation of surprise."
>
> Who knew? As for injecting disturbances, surprise, unpredictbility into the
> algae-ocean-earth system, it would seem that our unabated injection of CO2
> into the atmosphere and, hence, the ocean is doing a pretty good job. What
> then are the better remedies should our current behavior continue, and
> doesn't science and research on such remedies reduce surprise and
> unpredictability of their application e.g. as demonstrated in our treatment
> of disease and medicine, etc?
>
> Anyway, the article is paywalled.
>
> For a contrasting view of the potentialities, I recommend:
> http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/lawreview/vol54/iss1/5/
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 12:30 AM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17530350.2015.1039459#_=_
> The Experimental Economy of Geoengineering
> Simon Factor
>
> Journal of Cultural Economy
> Published online: 03 Jul 2015
> DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2015.1039459
> Will the practical application of geoengineering technologies inadvertently
> bring about the catastrophic futures they are meant to pre-empt? And is such
> elicitation of unpredictability as unintended as it might appear – the
> accidental consequence of the extension of a modernist attitude to control
> and domesticate nature? To grasp what is at stake in such questions, this
> paper traces out the marginal history of ocean geoengineering, its
> correlative ‘green’ economy, and through the deployment of algae as an
> inventive world-remaking device, their co-formation of the earth as a site of
> unbounded experimentation – of what I call experiment earth. My argument here
> is that such methods of geoengineering inject disturbances into the
> algae-ocean-earth system that do not seek control, but to elicit surprise and
> explicate the mechanisms of the complex permutations of their
> unpredictability, where new forms of knowledge and value are created not
> through the
> application of preconceived ideas or a process of commensuration, but through
> the harnessing of anticipation and the generation of surprise. How, I ask,
> are we to understand the lineaments of a pre-emptive ‘green’ economy that is
> premised on not just managing, but speculatively materially recomposing the
> non-linear chemical and ecological constitution of the earth’s metabolism?
> And what, from this vantage point, is the earth becoming?
> keywords : geoengineering; experiment; green capitalism; pre-emption;
> inventive methods
>
>
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