Thomas Ramge

Dimming the Sun: The Urgent Case for Geoengineering (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking, vital examination of a powerfuland extremely controversialstopgap solution to looming climate catastrophe

It would be great if humanity could forgo solar geoengineering and get climate change under control before the world goes off the rails. But I no longer believe in this possibility.

Earth stands at a tipping point. As we fail to curtail emissions fast enough, our planet stares down a cascade of imminent, catastrophic, and irreversible disaster triggered by climate change. Yet a potent technology already exists to buy us more time: solar geoengineering. Through methods such as atmospheric aerosols, human-generated cirrus clouds, and solar sails, we humans canat least in the short termslow the Earth's warming. Should we?

Award-winning science writer Thomas Ramge's Dimming the Sun is his provocative, informative, urgent, and necessary exploration of this intriguing stopgap solution. Ramge shows us how the science works, what the risks areboth geophysical and politicaland how the international community might come together to agree on and regulate a safe and effective plan for geoengineering. And while he identifies the unknowns about the technology that remain, he believes this very uncertainty demands our full attention. With time to avert the worst of climate change rapidly running out, he makes a forceful case that the most responsible course of action is to dramatically increase research on solar geoengineering nowbefore it's too late.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Experiment
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798893030556
• Artikelnr.: 72257271

Autorenporträt

Dr. Thomas Ramge thinks and writes at the crossroads of technology and economics, sustainability and society. He has published more than twenty nonfiction books, selling more than two million copies worldwide, including Who's Afraid of AI?, On the Brink of Utopia, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, and The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It. His essays and articles appear in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Foreign Affairs. He holds a PhD in sociology of technology and is an Associated Researcher at the Einstein Center Digital Future. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous publishing awards, including the German Essay Prize 2022, the Axiom Business Book Award 2019 (Gold Medal, Economics), and the getAbstract International Book Prize 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: heaven and sulfur
2. Climate: Why we (probably) have to dim the sun
3. Technology: The geoengineers' toolbox
4. Research: The risks and side effects
5. Law: How to regulate dimming the sun
6. Scenario: A (plausible?) story from the year 2040
7. Politics: Geoengineering? Yes, please!