Geoengineering

Geoengineering

Recent years have seen a proliferation of dangerous geoengineering proposals – attempts to manipulate Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in order to address the effects of climate change. These range from injecting megatons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, to every container ship in the world dumping limestone in its wake to draw carbon dioxide down from the atmosphere.

Friends of the Earth campaigns against the development and deployment of geoengineering technologies that have the potential to inflict catastrophic side-effects on Earth’s systems, such as reducing monsoon rainfall in Asia and Africa, increasing heat waves in Europe to cool California, or killing off phytoplankton at the base of the marine food chain in oceans across the planet.