What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?

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OpinionClimate crisis

Moira Donegan

Climate engineering sounds scary. But is coming whether we like it or not, this scientist says

‘The two main types of geoengineering are carbon engineering, which aims to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, and solar engineering, which aims to reflect solar energy away from Earth.’
‘The two main types of geoengineering are carbon engineering, which aims to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, and solar engineering, which aims to reflect solar energy away from Earth.’Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

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The realities of climate change are front-page news every day. Temperature records are being smashed. Wildfires are raging. There isno signof

things going back to “normal”. If anything, they will only get worse.

Last year, when the planet was convulsing with the arrival of a pandemic, we pinned our hopes on technology – in the form of an mRNA vaccine – getting us out of our crisis. The vaccine was a technological intervention, injected into the arms of billions of people. Could we (should we?) look…

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