The 2024 Election Outcome Could Boost the Case for Geoengineering

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2024-10-28

Summary:

Reflecting Sunlight: Recommendations for Solar Geoengineering Research and Research Governance (2021) coverA Trump victory would increase the odds that we will eventually need to “break the glass and pull the red lever.”  To be prepared for that possibility, we would also need to do more in the short term to research various forms of geoengineering, their feasibility, and their potential side effects.  Basically, if you decide you’re going to start smoking a lot more cigarettes, you need to be prepared for the greater likelihood you’ll need chemo.

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2024

Authors:

Dan Farber

Date tagged:

10/28/2024, 15:30

Date published:

10/28/2024, 13:55