A defence of geoengineering

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Fantasy or nightmare? If you look beyond extreme ideas such as space shades, there's much to like about this fast-evolving category of climate tech

How far should humans go to save Planet Earth? That was my first question in early March, when a new book about geoengineering, Hacking Planet Earth, authored by journalist Thomas Kostigen, landed on...

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