49 - Climate Intervention and Geoengineering with Wake Smith

Scaling Sustainability

English - October 27, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB
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Public discourse around climate change widely focuses on reaching net zero emissions. Yet, some propose that even after we reach net zero, temperatures will continue to warm, sea levels will continue to rise, and climate disasters will continue to occur. There are currently a number of proposed ideas that go beyond net zero by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere or artificially cooling the planet, known collectively as geoengineering. While geoengineering methods don’t invalidate the need to decarbonize now and fast, given the dangerous trajectory of global heating, reaching net zero emissions may only be the beginning, not the end, of our fight against climate change.

Wake Smith argues that future generations may be forced to take such dire actions to combat climate change and, if so, they deserve to inherit research done now to understand the potential feasibility and consequences of geoengineering. As a lecturer at Yale University, Wake teaches a world-leading undergraduate course on climate intervention, the syllabus of which forms the basis of his book, Pandora’s Toolbox. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, writing scholarly articles on the aeronautics, costs, and governance of solar geoengineering. In this episode, Wake and I discuss the current climate intervention landscape and the future possibilities that geoengineering offers.

Resources mentioned in today’s episode:
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention https://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Toolbox-Hazards-Climate-Intervention/dp/1316518434

Connect with Wake Smith:
https://www.wakesmith.earth/

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