Experts are reportedly considering geo-engineering climate in a somewhat desperate attempt to curb the effects of climate change.
They are even calling for a moratorium on efforts to geo-engineer climate.
While this, if it does materialise in some form after many years of R&D, may sound like a breakthrough, on paper, our fellow humans must be careful.
Some humans are wealthy beyond imagination, some smarter than 20 professors put together, some more ambitious than Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson, and some still trying to understand climate change properly.
Many are still sitting on the fence on the subject. Rather than pretending to be an expert on the subject like some 90 per cent of the people, I’d play it safe and say, “do not tinker with God’s creation”.
However, I would join our Government’s e ffort in lobbying for climate funding.
If humans have caused it, humans pay, both the price and the cost of mitigation. If humans didn’t cause it, still humans pay because everyone now believes beyond doubt that humans caused it.
As an expert in the agriculture industry, I have knowledge and experience on engineering the microclimate for crop production.
That’s fine because the technology is limited to farms only. Trying to restrict the sun’s rays shining on earth takes it too far.
I hope experts fail in their geoengineering attempts. The problem, however, is that many will have made millions and even billions by the time the concept is ruled out.
Fiji must cash in through the current global funding mechanisms though. So, the next COP meeting should not be taken lightly.
A billion or two dollars will do no harm.
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