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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.

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.