The Dangers of Geoengineering

…the Myth of Scientific Supremacy

In recent years, confronted with the earth-shattering dangers from Global Climate Change (“GCC”), governments and NGOs alike have looked into the potential for scientific/technological solutions to save us from the environmental catastrophe caused by our avarice and ignorance. Rising temperatures worldwide, increased acidification of the oceans (along with their being the world’s largest plastics dump), loss of forests/jungles and the massive extinctions going on under our noses, all point to a planet in critical danger of loss of almost all life.

Shocked by the rapid decline in the ecosystems that have supported the world’s lives for hundreds of millions of years, Mankind — supposedly the smartest lifeform on this planet — wants a “silver bullet” to undo the catastrophe of its own making.

The latest form of this “instant gratification” solution is “geoengineering,” the scientific/technological means of manipulating the global environment to counteract GCC. Seriously? So we’re now playing God?

While it sounds benign, geoengineering actually presupposes that Man can alter not just local weather, but regional and, eventually, global climate. Through the use of seeding the atmosphere to reflect a portion of the Sun’s light and heat, to changing the patterns of…