{"id":516155,"date":"2010-04-05T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metasd.com\/?p=952"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:30:08","slug":"who-eats-the-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516155","title":{"rendered":"Who eats the risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Asilomar geoengineering conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/011051.html\">via WorldChanging<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lesson two: Nobody has any clear idea how to resolve the inequalities  inherent in geoengineering. One of the most quoted remarks at the  conference came from Pablo Suarez, the associate director of programs  with the Red Cross\/Red Crescent Climate Centre, who asked during one  plenary session, \u201cWho eats the risk?\u201d In Suarez\u2019s view, geoengineering  is all about shifting the risk of global warming from rich nations \u2014  i.e., those who can afford the technologies to manipulate the climate \u2014  to poor nations. Suarez admitted that one way to resolve this might be  for rich nations to pay poor nations for the damage caused by, say,  shifting precipitation patterns. But that conjured up visions of  Bangladeshi farmers suing Chinese geoengineers for ruining their rice  crop \u2014 a legalistic can of worms that nobody was willing to openly  explore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If geoengineering is a for-profit operation, it presumably also involves the public bearing the risk of private acts, because investors aren&#8217;t likely to have an appetite for the essentially unlimited liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Asilomar geoengineering conference, via WorldChanging: Lesson two: Nobody has any clear idea how to resolve the inequalities inherent in geoengineering. One of the most quoted remarks at the conference came from Pablo Suarez, the associate director of programs with the Red Cross\/Red Crescent Climate Centre, who asked during one plenary session, \u201cWho eats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}