De la Garza: Environmental opposition no longer stops rogue outdoor geoengineering
Alejandro de la Garza · A rogue geoengineering startup sparks worry · Mar 15, 2023 · at 20:32
Time reporter Alejandro de la Garza discusses how institutional pushback failed to stop Make Sunsets compared to earlier academic projects in Sweden.
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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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