The Royal Society’s Report on Geoengineering the Climate: Geoengineering or Geopiracy?
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With the Royal Society’s President, Lord Martin Rees, presiding and James Lovelock, the father of the Gaia Hypothesis, commenting, the release of the Society’s report[1] outlining the possibilities for geoengineering the world out of the climate crisis could seem the very embodiment of the precautionary principle. In his 2004 book, Our Final Century, it was Lord Rees after all who warned us that technological hubris could obliterate a million lives through “bio error or bioterror” before 2020. He is a cautious man not disposed to put faith in technological silver bullets. Likewise, Dr. Lovelock has been outspoken in his alarm over the impending climate chaos – edging toward geoengineering, but equally perturbed by the “Kafkaesque” prospects of scientists and governments trying to rejig the planetary thermostat.
UK Royal Society on Geoengineering: The Emperor's New Climate?
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The oldest scientific academy in the world, the UK’s Royal Society, will release its long-awaited report on geoengineering September 1st 2009 in London. The report, drafted by a panel dominated by geoengineering enthusiasts, is widely expected to recommend that the government support more research and perhaps even real-world experimentation of these controversial new technologies that intentionally manipulate the earth’s climate on a large scale with the aim of lessening the effects of climate change.
“Geoengineering is a bad idea, and, unfortunately, it may transform Lord Rees’s book from musings to memoir,” says Diana Bronson, researcher for the international technology watchdog ETC Group, referring to the Royal Society President’s 2004 book, Our Final Century, which suggested that humans may not live to see the end of the 21st century.
Ficciones científicas: La sociedad real del reino unido publica un importante reporte sobre geoingeniería
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La institución científica más antigua del mundo, la Sociedad Real del Reino Unido, publica hoy un muy esperado reporte sobre geoingeniería. Muchos prevén que el reporte, redactado por un panel dominado por entusiastas de la geoingeniería, recomendará que el gobierno apoye más investigaciones y quizá hasta experimentos en el mundo real con estas nuevas y polémicas tecnologías que intencionalmente manipulan el clima de la tierra en gran escala con el objetivo de disminuir los efectos del cambio climático.
Organizaciones denuncian ASALTO A LA BIOMASA DEL PLANETA durante reunión global de la industria biotecnológica
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Des ONG dénoncent l’écomarketing des entreprises biotechnologiques
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