Strategies for a Changing Planet: If All Else Fails...
Desperate Measures Bombarding the stratosphere with aerosol-packed artillery shells could either lower the temperature of the planet-or destroy it. Graham MurdochWhen it's 115 degrees in March, it might take a Hail Mary of a solution to help us Climate change is already happening, and it's time to get ready. Here's how we could adjust our most basic needs--food, water, shelter--to survive. It's impossible to predict the exact speed and severity with which climate change will unfold, but one thing is clear: if we take no preventive action, eventually we'll be tempted to take desperate action. And over the decades, as the effects of climate change grow increasingly severe, the amount of risk humankind is willing to bear will increase. In the next decade, as Dust Bowl-like conditions afflict the American West and it becomes ever more difficult to dismiss the drought as a temporary glitch, low-risk methods for removing carbon dioxide...