Begging people to understand that solar geoengineering is literally genocide. I'm having difficulty understanding why people in a solarpunk lemmy instance think a project that has the potential to cause two mass extinctions, droughts, and social murder of millions of disabled folk is solarpunk.

Dumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight—a project called solar geoengineering—would cause mass ecological shocks to ecosystems worldwide that have adapted to a warmer climate and then shocked into a cooler one all of the sudden. Then there's the risk that solar geoengineering would stop due to all kinds of political reasons. Stopping the dumping of sulfur dioxide would cause the climate to rapidly warm again, which will then cause shocks to ecosystems that survived the original shock. That's two mass extinction events that can be caused by solar geoengineering.

Then there's the people who rely on wild and domesticated ecosystems that would be affected by less sunlight and cooler climates. We'd see droughts and famines.

Then there's the obvious fact that sulfur dioxide emissions will kill disabled people by the millions.

There are no technological solutions to social problems. Our climate crisis is a social issue and cannot be solved by a technological fix like solar geoengineering.

I don't know why it needs to be said, but genocide is not solarpunk.

#ClimateDiary #Solarpunk #Geoengineering #Climate

Huge thanks to Shane Hawk, co-editor of the Indigenous dark fiction anthology Never Whistle at Night for helping spread the word about Tiffany Morris's Green Fuse Burning. The novella is out Oct 31st & is available for pre-order from us and everywhere else:

https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/green-fuse-burning/.

#indigenousliterature #indigenoushorror #ecohorror #climatefiction #horrorbooks #swampcore #smallpress

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Hi everyone! We're back online after a short break in the woods where we explored caves, canoed, hiked, hung out on a forest beach and read so many truly amazing books. Check them out!

Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This is How You Lose the Time War
Thea Lim's An Ocean of Minutes
Cherie Dimaline's VenCo
Ai Jiang's Linghun
Sydney Hegele's The Pump
Anuja Varghese's Chysalis
The Reckoning collection Our Beautiful Reward

Loved every one of these books. It was so nice to be able to read again.