Arctic blast was engineered to cause maximum damage to farms, roads and infrastructure, and interruptions to society 01/15/2024 // Belle Carter // 10.1
As if inexorably, the Keeling curve measuring carbon dioxide emissions continues to ratchet up. At the same time, annual global average temperatures continue to increase. This year looks set to become the warmest for millennia. Paltry efforts to curb fossil fuel use, to prevent the problem of climate change at source, have stalled or are swallowed by ever-growing energy demand. Net zero resembles a distant mirage. Activists have to redouble our efforts to impose mitigation measures on profiteering capitalists and their unwilling bourgeois states.
Amid efforts to counter climate change whilst ensuring energy security, the debate around the role of geoengineering in combatting carbon emissions is heating up.