Opinion | Is Decarbonization Dead?
Despite the fact that climate change is a pressing concern with material and immediate negative health effects, to put it mildly, it is not of interest to many of the people who are in control of where money and research attention are flowing. There is this idea that climate change can be easily solved, and we already know how to do it. So once tec... See more
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
Dealing with this challenge will, for the first time in history, require a truly global, as well as a very substantial and prolonged, commitment. To conclude that we will be able to achieve decarbonization anytime soon, effectively and on the required scales, runs against all past evidence. The UN’s first climate conference took place in 1992, and
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I am generally not a catastrophist, though I have embraced climate catastrophist positions on occasion. Catastrophe or not, 3 degrees feels like a lot; growing up in Delhi, I can say that playing cricket in 37 degree weather is a lot different from playing it in 40 degree weather.
Nevertheless, this article has good arguments tha
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