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Near Futures with Kim Stanley Robinson

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Are We Going to Have a Democratic Debate About Geo Engineering?

In the book, you depict solar radiation management, a king out some of the sun with sulphur dust. You depict draining water from underneath glaciers. Maybe most optimistically, you depict direct air capture. And this is, you know, geomageering is heresy for much of the climate left. They see that as an excuse for fossil fuel anno companies. It's no longer a get out of jail freecard for capitalism going on the way it is. Nobody's discussingit way. Who are proposing it? How realistic is it to sort of imagine these decisions will be made in ways that somebody like you would feel?"

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