Is the world sleepwalking into a geoengineering nightmare?
Environmental groups warn on hare-brained schemes to mitigate global warming
Lost amid the emergence of the pandemic’s third wave towards the end of March was an obscure development that could have profound influence on how the world attempts to avoid runaway climate change.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a major independent, nonpartisan advisory body to the US government, released a report calling for the country to develop a comprehensive, multilateral research programme to explore how solar geoengineering could help curb rising global temperatures. For many technocrats and scientists this is an exciting and long overdue step. But for many environmental groups and activists it is unnerving, another dangerous push towards a possible point of no return...
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