Vrijdag 9 november – In oktober kwam een coalitie van maar liefst 110 maatschappelijke organisaties met het Manifesto Against Geoengineering. Met daarbij de uitroep: ‘hands Off Mother Earth!’

Wat is geoengineering? Uit het manifest:

Geoengineering refers to a set of proposed technologies to
deliberately intervene in and alter Earth systems on a large
– i.e. planetary – scale. There are two basic directions such
interventions can take: The first is a suite of technologies
that aim to reduce the amount of incoming sunlight to
artificially cool the climate. These are so-called Solar
Radiation Management (SRM) approaches that could consist
of shooting aerosols into the stratosphere to mimic the
effect of a volcanic eruption or brighten clouds and/or
ocean surfaces to make them more reflective. The second
category of Earth system interventions falls under the
umbrella of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) or greenhouse gas
removal (GGR) and aims to suck CO2
from the atmosphere at
a large-scale and store it underground, in the oceans, or in
monoculture tree plantations. Overall, geoengineering may
comprise interventions on land, oceans, or in the atmosphere
that come with large-scale risk and adverse impacts for
human communities, ecosystems and natural processes, and
international peace and security.

Daarmee is geoengineering dus totaal iets anders dan Climate Cleanup. Geoengineering vecht tegen de natuur, Climate Cleanup werkt met de natuur samen.