We’ve entered a new climate reality. The pace of the energy transition has picked up – and so have the impacts of climate change.

But has there ever actually been an energy transition? Or do we just use more and more and more of everything?

As climate change accelerates, feedback loops in the climate system will start to speed it up even further.

All this is to say: we’re approaching the point when geoengineering will start to seem awfully tempting.

Richard Hames spoke to Laurie Laybourn, executive director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, about what we do when that temptation arises.