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„I worry that this report would pave the way for wasting large investments of funding and effort researching these schemes, rather than focusing on the goal of slowing and eventually stopping climate change by transitioning to a low-carbon economy. Moreover, if people believe that a technological solution is possible in the distant future, they will not strive so hard to reduce carbon emissions today and will continue with business-as-usual.“

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„A relatively small, but growing, voice is suggesting a technological fix to these problems: active climate intervention. This is the audacious idea of intentionally modifying the climate to compensate for the carbon emissions that we seem unwilling to curtail.“

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„Today, some scientists are singing a very similar tune. But what technologies do we have at our disposal to counter climate change? Have we advanced geoengineering in the last half-century? Is geoengineering safe or even ethical?“

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„However, along with acceptance of a changing climate, there is a yearning for a technological fix, a silver bullet that will make things right.“

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