Solving the Climate Crisis: Geoengineering and the Billion-Dollar Remediation Choices

We broke it, now we must try to fix it before we reach one of the climate’s many tipping points. One way is geoengineering, defined as a deliberate, large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system. Or, there may be other solutions. With everyday climate, disasters get worse and worse. Every day the money spent repairing the damages subtracts from the money available to try to prevent future disasters. Do we spend billions of dollars to build a seawall around Miami Florida (just 3 feet above sea level) to protect trillions of dollars of real estate investment, or do we pay people to move away from potential danger zones? 

Do we risk proposed geoengineering experiments like creating sunlight-blocking clouds in the stratosphere or do we undertake a massive Manhattan project-style effort to build small neighborhood nuclear power plants and massive solar energy farms? This seminar will explore many of these choices that will soon be forced upon us.  

Dave DesJardins is a retired environmental research scientist who has taught  many popular courses on the climate crisis over the years  

One Session: 1:30 to 3:30 PM, Thursday, February 23 

The Cypress, HH Plantation, 20 Lady Slipper Lane, (Use the back gate.)