Within five years, China intends to use a dubious geoengineering technology known as cloud seeding to induce more than 60 billion cubic meters of additional rain each year, its government said this week. [T]he truth is that geoengineering is itself a rogue proposition, Naomi Klein wrote in 2012. By definition, technologies that tamper with ocean and atmospheric chemistry affect everyone. Yet it is impossible to get anything like unanimous consent for these interventions. Nor could any such consent possibly be informed since we don’t—and can’t—know the full risks involved until these planet-altering technologies are actually deployed. commondreams.org/news/2015/01/14/china-goes-rogue-artificial-weather-scheme
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 01:13:10 +0000
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