Geoengineering — trying to change the Earth’s climate on a global scale by doing things like seeding the upper atmosphere with reflective particles — is getting attention from serious scientists.
But not so fast, says James Lovelock, originator of the hugely influential ‘Gaia Hypothesis.‘ In an article in today’s Guardian, Lovelock says:
our ignorance of the Earth system is great; we know little more than an early 19th-century physician knew about the body. Geoengineering is like trying to cure pneumonia by immersing the patient in a bath of icy water; the fever would be cured but not the disease.
Better to leave the Earth to cleanse itself, says Lovelock, since our cure may be worse even than the ailment it currently suffers, both for the Earth and for us.
EarthQuaker 
Lovelock has a new book, came out last year Gaia’s Revenge. I reviewed it recently at http://www.growandmake.com/blog
We’re raging war with the earth. As one act of violence requires another to secure it, in an endless cycle, so does our exploitation of nature.