MIT Media Lab Forbidden Research
Cambridge, MA
"Messing with Nature: Climate"
Stewart Brand, David Keith & Gernot Wagner
Geoengineering, or using technological interventions to address climate change, is much on the minds of scientists, policy makers and citizen groups. As our ability to “mess” with nature evolves from science fiction to reality, we are faced with serious questions about whether the possibility of success is worth the massive potential risks. Technologies for reflecting solar radiation back into space are being researched, but what will happen if we deploy them? Who should decide? Who will?
