Prof. William E. Rees, FRSC

Canada

Professor Emeritus and former Director, University of British Columbia School of Community and Regional Planning; Founding member and former President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute; recipient of a 2012 Blue Planet Prize.

Solar geoengineering is a wasteful, potentially dangerous undertaking that ignores the real meta-problem facing humanity, namely OVERSHOOT, and, in execution, may ever exacerbate climate change (one of many symptoms of overshoot).