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David Keith presents "Patient Geoengineering"
SFJAZZ Center
San Francisco, CA
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David Keith presents "Patient Geoengineering"
The main arguments against geo-engineering (direct climate intervention) to stop global warming are: 1) It  would be a massive, irreversible, risky bet; 2) everyone has to agree to it, which they won't; 3) the unexpected side effects might be horrific; 4) once committed to, it could never be stopped.

What if none of those need be true?  

Harvard climate expert David Keith has a practical proposal for an incremental, low-cost, easily reversible program of research and eventual deployment that builds on local research and is designed from the beginning for eventual shutdown.  All it attempts is to reduce the rate of global warming to a manageable pace while the permanent solutions for excess greenhouse gases are worked out.  Global rainfall would not be affected.  The system is based on transparency and patienceeach stage building adaptively only on the proven success of prior stages, deployed only as needed, and then phased out the same way.

One of Time magazine's "Heroes for the Environment," David Keith is a Professor of Applied Physics in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School.  He is also executive chairman of the Calgary-based company, Carbon Engineering, which is developing air capture of carbon dioxide.

About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

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SFJAZZ Center (View)
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

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Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: The Long Now Foundation
On BPT Since: May 02, 2008
 
The Long Now Foundation
longnow.org/seminars/02015...


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