The Problem With Geoengineering (ft. @ClimateAdam)

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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I join forces with @ClimateAdam to look at silver bullet geoengineering solutions to climate change. Specifically, we look at how silver bullet geoengineering ideas can be appealing in theory, but in practice they often have a lot of ethical, economic, and social drawbacks. We dive deep into two geoengineering practices that some are touting as climate saviors: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage and Solar Radiation Management (specifically Stratospheric Aerosol Injection). Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage is a very appealing geoengineering technology but it requires massive amounts of land if it is scaled up. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection essentially dims the sun and there are many climate-related drawbacks as well as political ramifications that could arise if we use aerosol injections as a way to stave off the worst of climate change. Essentially these geoengineering silver bullet propositions are in many ways an excuse for us to continue business as usual instead of digging in and actually reducing emissions.

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Resources:

1. ‘Silver bullet’ to suck CO2 from air and halt climate change ruled out (The Guardian)

2. The Climate Hackers (Dissent)

3. We Can Pull CO2 from Air, But It's No Silver Bullet for Climate Change, Scientists Warn (InsideClimate News)

4. Bill Gates on the need for climate innovators (Bill Gates via YouTube)

5. BECCS deploymenta reality check (Grantham Institute)

6. Biomass with capturenegative emissions within social and environmental constraintsan editorial comment (Rhodes & Keith)

7. Climate Change’s Silver Bullet? Our Interview With One Of The World’s Top Geoengineering Scholars (ThinkProgress)

8. From Bill Gates to Oil Giants, Who Stands to Profit From Geoengineering Nature? (Democracy Now)

9. IndepthExperts assess the feasibility of 'negative emissions' (Carbon Brief)

10. Challenges to the use of BECCS as a keystone technology in pursuit of 1.5⁰C (Gough et al.)

11. As climate change worsens, some people might decide to DIY a solution (Vox)

12. Stratospheric aerosol injection tactics and costs in the first 15 years of deployment (Smith & Wagner)

13. Exploring the geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulfate aerosolsThe role of particle size (Rasch et al.)

14. Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering (Alan Robock)

15. Can we deploy enough BECCS to achieve climate targets? (Avoid 2)

16. TimelineHow BECCS became climate change's 'saviour' technology (Carbon Brief)

17. The Man Who Wants to Fix the Climate. Can Anyone Stop Him? (Pacific Standard)

18. Is It O.K. to Tinker With the Environment to Fight Climate Change? (NY Times)

#Geoengineering #SilverBullet #ClimateChange