AS THE EFFECTS OF CLI­MATE CHANGE BECOME MORE OBVI­OUS ACROSS THE WORLD, THE IDEA OF DOC­TOR­ING EARTH­’S ATMOS­PHERE TO REDUCE GLOB­AL WARM­ING IS MAK­ING A COME­BACK. SCI­EN­TIF­IC AMER­I­CAN HEAD­LINED ITS REJEC­TION OF THIS SUP­POSED SOLU­TION IN APRIL 2023; BUT ENGI­NEERS AT MAJOR UNI­VER­SI­TIES LIKE HAR­VARD AND OXFORD EMBRACE GEO-ENGI­NEER­ING. SOME MAJOR MEDIA ARE TOUT­ING IT. AND SO ARE SOME PROMI­NENT TECH ENTRE­PRE­NEURS — EVEN THOSE WHO ACKNOWL­EDGE IT WOULD ALSO DO A LOT OF DAMAGE.A UN SPACE TREATY FROM 1972 HOLDS GOV­ERN­MENTS RESPON­SI­BLE FOR DAM­AGE CAUSED BY A SPACE LAUNCH FROM THEIR TER­RI­TO­RIES; BUT TODAY SPACE IS COL­O­NIZED BY PRI­VATE ACTORS, CAPA­BLE OF BLITHE­LY TRY­ING WHAT­EV­ER THEY IMAG­INE.
NAO­MI KLEIN CALLED OUT THE HUBRIS OF GEO-ENGI­NEER­ING IN A TALK TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM. THE AUS­TRALIAN RADIO SHOW WOMEN ON THE LINE BROAD­CAST THAT TALK, AND SHARED IT WITH WINGS.