De la Garza: Environmental opposition no longer stops rogue geoengineering experiments
Alejandro de la Garza · The Carbon Copy: A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry · Apr 27, 2023 · at 24:48
Alejandro de la Garza, reporter for TIME, discusses how the threshold for launching unauthorized solar geoengineering trials has permanently shifted.
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“Some kind of critical mass has been reached where two years ago, a strongly worded letter from indigenous groups and Greenpeace and other environmental organizations was enough to dissuade the researchers at the time from Doing this kind of thing from, in that case, it was doing some atmosphere, some outdoor geoengineering experiments over Sweden. Now we have a combination of people and conditions where that doesn't matter anymore. Like they're going to do it anyway.”
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