Name: The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response
Start: 2026-09-04T14:30:00-0500
End: 2026-09-04T16:00:00-0500

The Threat of Geoengineering and the Socialist Response

Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT

TBA

As the climate crisis intensifies, capital is turning to geoengineering, technologies capable of directed perturbation of Earth systems. Here, we’ll explain what geoengineering is and why socialists should be opposed to its development. We will also discuss large-scale visions of ecosocialist transformation that challenge the urgency of intentional climate modification.

Speakers

T Callahan

T Callahan is a freelance science writer based in Chicago and author of The Stranded Asset on Substack. An editor of the forthcoming third edition of the Ecological Economics textbook and passionate advocate for eco-socialism, T strives to reveal capital's root-level complicity and... Read More →

Ashwin Shantha

Ashwin Shantha (they/them) is a Ph.D. student at York University in Toronto, CA. They are a scholar of political economy, focused on exploitation and development in the Global South. Ashwin also maintains the Journal of International Solidarity Substack and podcast.