Africa: Geoengineering the Climate - a Cautionary Tale for Africa, Asia and Planet Earth

opinion

Naomi Klein's book 'This Changes Everything' shows how climate change and the bleak future we are marching toward are inextricably bound up with unfettered capitalism. To preserve capitalist excesses, hi-tech fixes for warming - like Solar Radiation Management - may be employed that hasten the demise of large parts of Africa and Asia and the natural world.

Given the radical decrease in belief in the reality of global warming among the population of the United States and various Western nations in recent years, it may seem premature and a bit hysterical to cry wolf about the dangers of remedial measures that may never be implemented.

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