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Experts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
You didn’t read the article.
They’re calling for more research into geoengineering. They just don’t want governments going off half-cocked with under-researched “solutions” that might make things much worse.
What they’re arguing against is the kinds of solutions fossil fuel companies are pushing as a way to allow them to continue polluting. Fuck the scientists? These are the people trying to stop climate change.