Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As the impacts of climate change grow more severe and global decarbonization goals seem increasingly out of reach, conversations about whether and how to directly intervene in the global atmosphere are growing more serious. As geoengineering moves from science fiction to potential reality, policymakers and the public will need to answer a series of increasingly urgent questions: who gets to decide whether, when, and how much to alter the Earth’s atmosphere?
As the impacts of climate change grow more severe and global decarbonization goals seem increasingly out of reach, conversations about whether and how to directly intervene in the global atmosphere are growing more serious. As geoengineering moves from science fiction to potential reality, policymakers and the public will need to answer a series of increasingly urgent questions: who gets to decide whether, when, and how much to alter the Earth’s atmosphere?
