Название | Geoengineering |
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Автор произведения | Gernot Wagner |
Жанр | Биология |
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Издательство | Биология |
Год выпуска | 0 |
isbn | 9781509543076 |
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The Gamble
Gernot Wagner
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Copyright © Gernot Wagner 2021
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First published in 2021 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4305-2 (hardback)
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Names: Wagner, Gernot, author.
Title: Geoengineering : the gamble / Gernot Wagner.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A bestselling climate economist asks ‘is geoengineering worth the gamble to tackle climate change?’”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021011283 (print) | LCCN 2021011284 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509543052 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509543069 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509543076 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Environmental geotechnology. | Climate change mitigation. | Carbon dioxide mitigation. | Pollution--Economic aspects. | Environmental policy.
Classification: LCC TD171.9 .W34 2021 (print) | LCC TD171.9 (ebook) | DDC 628--dc23
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About the author
Gernot Wagner teaches climate economics at NYU, co-authored Climate Shock, and writes Bloomberg’s Risky Climate column. He was the founding executive director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program and served as lead senior economist at Environmental Defense Fund. His writings appear frequently in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, TIME, among many others. Follow his work at gwagner.com
Introduction Start here – But don’t start with geoengineering
The first time I heard about solar geoengineering, I considered the idea nuts. It is. Two decades later – after having worked on the topic at Environmental Defense Fund, helping launch Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, and doing quite a bit of research and writing on the topic myself – I still think it is a rather healthy attitude to have toward the topic. The entire enterprise seems like a gamble, and a planetary one at that.
Of course, anyone who’s been paying attention to what’s happening with the rapidly changing climate will recognize that the world is currently playing a different kind of gamble with the planet, and arguably an even larger one.
Geoengineering – in particular, solar geoengineering, attempting to cool the planet by sending a small fraction of sunlight back into space, or by increasing the amount of solar radiation that escapes back into space – is no solution to climate change. That much is clear. It does not address the root cause of too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, nor the continuing inflow of CO2 emissions. Geoengineering is a technofix, and