Planetary Maintenance Engineers

Join author, historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer for an unforgettable lecture during British Columbia Climate Action Week.

Gwynne has spent the past three years interviewing over a hundred climate scientists and engineers for his new book ‘Intervention Earth’. Geoengineering frightens them, and at the beginning a clear majority ruled it out as ‘too dangerous’. By now, he reckons, a majority among the climate scientists has reluctantly swung the other way: we must hold the heat down to keep our societies intact while we cope with the changes. Early research suggests that various forms of geoengineering are technically feasible and not even stunningly expensive, but it can only be a temporary patch, not a long-term solution. New emissions still have to stop, and most of the historic emissions will still eventually have to be removed. But climate engineering may be the necessary bridge to get us through the crisis without a catastrophe.

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