Retooling the Planet: The False Promise of Geoengineering

By ETC Group, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

November 11, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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Retooling the Planet

This essay was adapted from the report Retooling the Planet, which ETC Group prepared for the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation; lead authors were Diana Bronson, Pat Mooney, and Kathy Jo Wetter.

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ETC Group is an international civil society organization that promotes critical analysis of emerging technologies. Based in Canada, the organization works to sustain cultural and biological diversity and to advance food sovereignty and human rights.

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