The realities of climate change look bleak, but is relying on a climate engineering project like solar radiation management the answer?
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It's time to admit the age of pristine nature is over. In its place is humanity and planet-shaping technologies, from gene editing to climate engineering. Earth Day in a Synthetic Age.
A disaster fantasy raises questions about tinkering with Earth's climate. With real-life scientists exploring geoengineering, what conversations should we be having now around these technologies?
The prospect of attempting to engineer the world's climate has become a lot more real since the Paris Agreement.
We have the technology to temporarily shift wet weather elsewhere.
It's a daunting technical challenge. But the key question is whether such engineering is socially acceptable.
Though climate engineering has lots of problems we need to do more than simply cut emissions.
Top contributors
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Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
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Reader in Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Reader in Natural Hazards, University of Bristol
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Professor of Philosophy, The University of Montana
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Presidential Fellow in Environment, University of Manchester
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Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Political Theory, University of Reading
