ETC publication "The Artificial Intelligence of Geoengineering"

[Chris]

The Group may be interested to see this new publication by the ETC Group that can be found at:

 

http://www.etcgroup.org/sites/www.etcgroup.org/files/AI_Geoengineering_Governance_130119.pdf

 

There isn't an abstract but the final paragraph says:

 

“SRM wars: Both unilateral global geoengineering initiatives and unilateral regional geoengineering initiatives represent a direct threat to global security and invite – almost require – responses from other governments. Especially, ocean and solar radiation management (SRM)

interventions will start an escalation of meteorological experimentation that could quickly spin out of control. Geoengineering experimentation, then, is a transgression of the ENMOD (Environmental Modification) treaty of the 1970s and governments and/or the United Nations should immediately bring this concern before the International Court of Justice. In keeping with the geoengineering moratorium adopted by member governments at the UN Biodiversity Convention in 2010 and until the court makes its decision, no experimentation – outside of laboratories – can be allowed.”

 

Chris.

[RAU greg]

Thanks, Chris.  Artificial or not, I think we can all agree that intelligent (rather than the alternative) use of technology will be needed to conserve earth habitability. Interestingly, CDR seems to have dropped from ETC's s%&t list.  Also in their "communique" they view high tech satellite-based earth monitoring as critically important, rather than as evil, military-industrial spawn of the Cold War. Who knew? An what other technologies might ETC come to endorse as useful, governable, and socially acceptable? 

-Greg

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