I think it is similar to the problems associated with climate scepticism. I remember when I first heard about “mirrors in space” as proposed (I think) by Paul Crutzen, in the early 2000s. I’ve worked in the biodiversity arena since the mid-1980s, and I was horrified. It seemed a license to continue spewing out CO2.
The problem is our collective yen to mythologize: that image of great big reflectors in space still probably underpins much of the hostility to geoengineering (apologies in advance to Oliver Morton as I am sure he goes into all of this in his book, which I have, but not yet read). Now of course (and in large part by learning from the exchanges on this list) I know better – of course we need geoengineering, and in addition we now know (which I don’t think most of us knew in say, c.2006) that we need a massive amount of negative emissions. DAC was not on the table as a serious solution, back then, but it is now. So that is what I think this community needs to concentrate on its media/celebrity outreach: the potential of geoengineering solutions to remove atmospheric CO2. That is a quite different narrative from the prevention of global warming by deflecting solar rays. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Lockley Sent: 28 August 2017 19:37 To: durbrow <[email protected]>; geoengineering <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [geo] Environmentalists that denounce climate eng research; what to do? Centrally controlled CE certainly isn't the only approach. It can be democratic or decentralised. I'm working on a paper concerning decentralised governance A On 28 Aug 2017 19:29, "Eric Durbrow" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Attenborough referred to climate engineering as “fascist" (he meant that a small group of people would control the climate) and Gore has called it “insane…delusional". Bill McKibben called it a "serious deadend” Is it too late to reach out to environmental leaders and get them to change their minds for *research* in climate engineering? E.g. an open-letter editorial in the Times, etc. Or do celebrity leaders actually have minimal impact among grassroots environmentalists and activists? -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
