What are the promises and perils of geoengineering?
In the long term, the management of the planet is going to require CO2-removal devices of some sort. There are a lot of people working on it, but it boils down to a simple economic question: Can we capture CO2 at an economical price? Right now, the answer is no. But were still at the Wright Brothers stage of exploring this.
Jeff Goodell, author of How to Cool the Planet