Frontier Climate: A bugreport

Constant took part in the writing of a bugreport on Frontier Climate on the initiative of TITiPI.

This bugreport was a collective action against Frontier Climate.

Frontier Climate is a consortium of Big Tech companies which was established to manage advanced market commitments (AMC) for carbon removal. Permanent carbon removal, previously known as “negative emissions”, refers to both the imaginary and the technoscience of a range of processes that seek to eliminate carbon from the atmosphere. It is a techno-economic model based on a violent mix of speculative accounting, and questionable geo-engineering practices. The experimental, speculative and techno-solutionist promise of permanent carbon removal is one in which the underground becomes the site of negative accumulation and the space of spatialised storage of carbon, following the axis of vertical models of extraction. We call for businesses, institutions, communities, science labs and consumers to de-invest their money, time, energy and trust from this enterprise.

Instead of payment systems for carbon removal, we called for an immediate halt to the logistics of racial capitalism that make fossil fuel extraction unavoidable. We urged to work towards the abolition of the computational infrastructuring of the Big Tech Complex, and towards the establishment of mutual-aid proposals for infrastructuring otherwise.

The bugreport was posted on the github of Stripe, the financial infrastructure provider and sole owner of Frontier Climate, but was removed few hours after submission.
You can read it here: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Frontier or in PDF format: https://titipi.org/pub/Frontier-bugreport.pdf