{"id":697688,"date":"2010-03-22T13:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.openthefuture.com,2010:\/\/1.9219"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:49:20","slug":"getting-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697688","title":{"rendered":"Getting it Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.openthefuture.com\/images\/Screen%20shot%202010-03-13%20at%2012.35.20%20PM.PNG?resize=500%2C502\" alt=\"Screen shot 2010-03-13 at 12.35.20 PM.PNG\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"502\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.umn.edu\/momentum\/current\/feature3.html\">A Survival Guide to Geoengineering<\/a>, my essay for <em>Momentum<\/em>, the journal of the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Institute on the Environment, is now available online and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.umn.edu\/momentum\/images\/images_2010winter\/momentum_winter2010_spreads_lowres.pdf\">via PDF<\/a>. It&#8217;s an exploration of what would be necessary to reduce the risks associated with geoengineering, if (or, sadly, when) it gets deployed. This essay served as the basis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthefuture.com\/2010\/02\/hacking_the_earth_without_void.html\">talk I gave at the State of Green Business Forum<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the essay is a recap of the main issues around geoengineering &#8212; the kinds of proposals out there, the uncertainties involved, and the political dilemmas. But the real focus is the list of five key steps that I believe to be mandatory to steer us away from the worst potential results of geoengineering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Transparency\n<li> Ongoing international advisory group\n<li> A bottom-up &#8220;Ecoscientists without Borders&#8221;\n<li> Clear mechanisms for resolving disputes\n<li> Ban (with teeth) on non-state projects\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, when I gave the talk in February going over these ideas, the last is the one that I got the most push-back on. I suspect that, once real mechanisms for monitoring and managing global climate systems are in place, non-state projects could be useful and warranted. For now, however, it seems clear that non-state groups acting independently are more likely to lead to inter-state disputes than any persistent moderation of temperatures or carbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Survival Guide to Geoengineering, my essay for Momentum, the journal of the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Institute on the Environment, is now available online and via PDF. It&#8217;s an exploration of what would be necessary to reduce the risks associated with geoengineering, if (or, sadly, when) it gets deployed. This essay served as the basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vv2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}