The question is: If there is an emergency, do we have a Plan B in our back pocket to solve it? Geoengineering is no longer unmentionable (and more). The effects of geoengineering could be worse than climate change, so we need to do our homework rather than assume it can stave off disaster. As carbon dioxide levels creep ever higher, scientists are working to put greenhouse gas in its place. We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived. The easiest way to fight global warming: Simply cleaning up soot could work wonders for the climate. Can condoms save us from climate change?: A study finds improved family planning is one of the most effective methods of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions we’ve got, but nobody dares comment on it — that is how abortion politics have skewed our political universe (and more). If Obama can't defeat the Republican headbangers, our planet is doomed. GEO-Politics: The gains of Copenhagen will be fleeting unless the world's nations create a Global Environmental Organization to enforce them. Poor countries’ economic development will contribute to climate change - but they are already its greatest victims. We are all Madoffs: Our relationship to the natural world is a Ponzi scheme. Can civilisation survive the unavoidable environmental catastrophe?: A review of Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine. New Scientist on reasons to be optimistic for the future and a blueprint for a better world.
