There are a number of people who are interested in squeezing geoengineering
into their pre-established worldview, wherein geoengineering is somehow
another manifestation of the evils of crony capitalism and the current
world order, and that therefore research into geoengineering as seen as an
In response to could be a good idea... wouldn't help in an emergency:
Achieving soil carbon sequestration in the United States, Lal, Follett
and Kimble 2003
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/745281/soil-carbon-amp-challenes-to-policy-makers.pdf
Better to talk about it now
To Ken,
I don't think Naomi Klein was questioning the motives of geoengineering
researchers, rather saying that there could be a passive drift toward
geoengineering because emissions aren't reduced and climate change
continues; indeed even with big emission reductions there will be continued