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Accepted Paper:
Saving global goods or messing with mother nature? Conflicts between indigenous communities and the developers of techno-scientific projects that aim to mitigate the decline of the cryosphere
Albert van Wijngaarden
(Cambridge University)
Paper short abstract:
As the global cryosphere declines, some have proposed technoscientific interventions to mitigate the thaw. Several of these projects have however run into staunch (indigenous-led opposition). This paper will explore the different perspectives that led to the two most prominent such controversies.
Paper long abstract:
As the global cryosphere declines, some have proposed technoscientific interventions to mitigate this thawing. Such proposals are known under varius names, but are most commonly referred to as geoengineering, climate intervention, or climate repair. These projects are often designed by scholars affiliated with prominent "Western" research institutions, but would primarily be deployed far away from where they are located, often on indigenous territories, and have several times sparked major indigenous-led protest. This paper will briefly mention two such protests, one against the Harvard-led SCoPEx project in Sweden, and one against the Arctic Ice Project in Alaska, and explain the fundamentally different ways of seeing the environment and human-nature relationships that underlie these conflicts.