Battlefield Earth

It’s only a matter of time before the world’s militaries learn to wield geo-engineering of the climate as a weapon.

Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. Such innovations remain critical, and yet disruptions to the Earth’s climate could overwhelm these relatively slow, incremental changes in how we live. As reports of faster-than-expected climate changes mount, a growing number of experts worry that we might ultimately be forced to try something quite radical: geoengineering…

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Jamais Cascio is a fellow of the IEET, and a professional futurist. He writes the popular blog Open the Future.