{"id":268302,"date":"2010-02-02T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.openthefuture.com,2010:\/\/1.9205"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:37:24","slug":"living-on-and-hacking-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268302","title":{"rendered":"Living On (and Hacking the) Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I was interviewed for the syndicated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/index.htm\">Living on Earth<\/a>&#8221; program (typically heard on NPR stations) on the subject of geoengineering. That interview was run this past weekend, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loe.org\/shows\/segments.htm?programID=10-P13-00005&#038;segmentID=2\">now available &#8212; with transcript &#8212; at the Living on Earth website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/stream.loe.org\/audio\/100129\/100129geoengineering.mp3\">Direct link to the MP3<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>YOUNG: What do you think is the likelihood that we might need a geo-engineering approach?<\/p>\n<p>CASCIO: I think it&#8217;s more likely than not, unfortunately because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>YOUNG: Now wait a minute, you spent all this time telling me how it&#8217;s a disaster, now you&#8217;re saying we might have to use it?<\/p>\n<p>CASCIO: Well, yes. It&#8217;s because over the past few decades we simply have been ignoring the problem of global warming. We&#8217;re in a situation where we simply no longer have the best option available to us. The best option would have been to deal with this 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And so, what we&#8217;re stuck with [is] a selection of less good options. Are we talking rapid decarbonization and what that&#8217;s going to the economy? Are we talking about making major changes to our energy infrastructure? Useful, but again, disruptive. These other alternatives are so seemingly unpalatable. It&#8217;s very likely that we&#8217;re going to be stuck in a situation where we will feel ourselves forced to take radical action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis in that last paragraph on the &#8220;seemingly,&#8221; btw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I was interviewed for the syndicated &#8220;Living on Earth&#8221; program (typically heard on NPR stations) on the subject of geoengineering. That interview was run this past weekend, and is now available &#8212; with transcript &#8212; at the Living on Earth website. (Direct link to the MP3.) YOUNG: What do you think is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}