Environment Forum
Global environmental challenges
Save the planet, and win a T-shirt?
If you come up with an idea for saving the planet from global warming, you may be the lucky winner of a T-shirt emblazoned with your design.
A group opposed to large-scale intervention in nature to change the climate – such as placing vast mirrors in space to reflect the sun’s rays or fertilising the oceans with iron to promote the growth of algae that soak up greenhouse gases from the air – wants to hear of any zany ideas by April Fool’s Day.
Canada-based ETC Group, which says it works for conservation of ecological diversity and human rights, says the winner of what it calls the “pie-in-the-sky” contest will get a T-shirt and ETC will publish a cartoon of the winning entry on its website.
“The winning submission will be original, ludicrous and contain at least a nano-shred of perverse logic,” ETC says. “Industrialization geo-engineered us into the climate mess in the first place, and some companies and scientists are crazy enough to think they can geoengineer us out of it,” said Kathy Jo Wetter of ETC Group.
