This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Author:Naomi Klein
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Industries, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy, Sustainable Development, Climate change, Energy, Economics, Sustainability, Political Science, Public Policy
ISBN: 9780307402028
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2014-09-16T04:00:00+00:00

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews conducted outside of the official sessions are exempt from these rules.)

* It’s particularly troubling that within the small group of scientists, engineers, and inventors who dominate the geoengineering debate, there have been a disproportionate share of big public errors in the past. Take, for instance, Lowell Wood, co-creator of Myhrvold’s StratoShield. Before becoming a prominent proponent of the “Pinatubo Option,” Wood was best known for coming up with some of the more fantastical elements of Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense program, widely discredited as expensive and reckless.

* That said, we would be wise to anticipate even small amounts of geoengineering unleashing a new age of weather-related geopolitical recrimination, paranoia, and possibly retaliation, with every future natural disaster being blamed—rightly or wrongly—on the people in faraway labs playing god.

* Ironically, the most reproduced of the earth-from-space photos was likely taken by Harrison Schmitt, a card-carrying climate change denier, former U.S. senator and a regular speaker at Heartland conferences. He was rather blasé about the experience: “You seen one Earth, you’ve seen them all,” he reportedly said.

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