Don’t Geoengineer Africa

April 5, 2024 | Zero Geoengineering |by Health of Mother Earth Foundation |

“Africa is being targeted by various actors to advance some of the most controversial technologies ever conceived, Geoengineering is one of such awful technologies. We see geoengineering proponents increasingly attempting to normalize geoengineering and confusing the public debate, while attempting to take advantage of African policymakers before they are fully informed.

As Africans, we reject the narrative that Africa should be at the forefront of geoengineering research and recognize this as a neo-colonial effort to co-opt African countries into supporting an agenda that is fundamentally against our interests.

In an effort to arm Africans with relevant knowledge on Geoengineering to enable them (especially policy makers) to make decisions and stand to reject this technology in favor of Africa and African people, HOME Alliance Africa working group has produced this very detailed policy brief. Read more here.”

“While the lobbying power and media presence of well-resourced geoengineering proponents
have clearly increased over the last few years, it is important to bear in mind that these have
always been and remain fringe ideas and extreme positions. Calls for the non-use and rejection
of such dangerous technologies are getting louder by the day, and constitute the commonsense, mainstream view. Africa can and must be at the heart of efforts to reject geoengineering and embrace real and just solutions.”