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Ways to re-engineer the climate

From carbon insolvency to climate dividends: How observing the 2-degree target may lead to a new global order. How a carbon cap number can make millionaires: If we take 350 seriously, we can start affecting the climate in ways that we can account for to ourselves. The world's response to global warming is a classic case of all mouth and no trousers: The beauty of 10:10 is that it's both achievable and meaningful (and if you're not fighting climate change or improving the world, you're wasting your life). At least four big conundrums must be confronted if we are to make progress in preventing the worst outcomes from global warming. From Discover, the easiest way to fight global warming? Geoengineering has so far been something of a taboo topic for climate scientists; Peter Cox and Hazel Jeffery explain why it is now time to take it seriously. Is geoengineering humanity's last hope to avoid catastrophic global warming? (and more) From mimicking a volcanic eruption to mirrors in space, some geoengineering schemes are pretty far out there. Here are a few not-so-crazy ways to re-engineer the climate. The way we live will lead, inevitably, to the extinction of half of the planet’s biodiversity by century’s end; how can our morality, or our religion, prepare us for this? Is committed greenery entitled to the same protections as a religion?