With the world's population so far unable or unwilling to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Michael Specter wonders if we should start deliberately altering our climate:
There are people who argue that even discussing the concept will weaken our resolve to change our behavior. They see geoengineering as an easy out, a parachute for an irresponsible world. They have a point. But people deploy parachutes when their only other option is to crash and die. I don’t think any climate scientist can say for certain when we will reach the point at which we need to pull the ripcord. But it certainly looks like we might have to.
The Dish previously looked at the idea of pumping volcano-inspired chemicals into the atmosphere here, as well as Specter's earlier reporting on geoengineering here and here.
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