To think that technology will save us from climate change invites the moral hazard. Whether new fixes create new problems has little to do with the fixes, and everything to do with us.
Rather than impeding the clean-energy race, the collapse of the U.S. start-up community's go-to bank offers lessons for managing the public-private minuet that net-zero transition requires.
Speeding up the adoption of already proven and scalable technologies and exposing the many hidden costs associated with fossil fuels is a necessary clean-energy goal.
Businesses and investors stand to make a lot of money if they properly navigate the new climate risk environment — yet we remain where we are.
Whether people believe that solar geoengineering is dangerous, potentially useful, or both, they should support more careful, open and transparent research into the matter.
Most governments have followed the bedrock economic principle that a higher price for something leads to less of its quantity being demanded in the marketplace.
There are indeed inherent biases built into the very structure of the economics — confusing precision with "rationality” might be among the most pernicious.
A technology called albedo modification, which boosts the reflectivity of the Earth's atmosphere, holds tremendous potential to cure climate change.
