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The Environment

may yield horrific unintended

consequences.

The promoters of

geoengineering are trying to
force dangerous experiments
on communities around the
world. For example, Indigenous
Peoples in Alaska are under

threat by an experiment on
their lands that would cover sea
ice with glass microbubbles to

deflect sunlight, as part of the
Arctic Ice project.[1] Similarly,
fisherfolk in Chile have found
the waters they depend on
threatened by plans for an

iron fertilization experiment
by the company Oceaneos
Environmental Solutions,

Inc., which would supposedly
stimulate phytoplankton growth
to sequester CO2.[2] The
ecological impacts of these
types of experiments are little

known and could have dire
long-term consequences.

Geoengineering represents an attempt to control nature and the resources in nature and money.
a potentially catastrophic But what really means is that, the control of nature in the hands of a
threat to human rights and the few money-men can sooner or later turn out to be a national security
environment, yet does nothing threats to nations of the world. If I can control rain, then I can flood
to address the root causes of any country with a push of a button or subject them to servitude by

climate change. In this sense, blackmailing them to do what I want because I can cause “natural
it is perhaps the ultimate false disaster” in their country.
solution.
We really need to look critically into the issue of geoengineering that

So, just maybe we should call allows a few people that are milking the world through capitalism,
geoengineering what it really is: have so much power to control nature. Its very dangerous.

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