The Environmental Defense Fund, entering controversial territory, will spend millions of dollars examining the impact of reflecting sunlight into space as global warming worsens.
While it’s worth researching, our quickest and most foolproof methods of drawing down carbon are simple things, like educating women worldwide, getting more people on mass transit and bikes, and cutting industrial emissions from oil and gas, construction, food, plastics and other waste, such as crypto and fast fashion.
Edit: if you are feeling depressed about it, I remember reading this book as part of a class and it being pretty interesting on the stuff we can do today to fix the climate. Not moonshot ideas like orbital mirrors or direct air capture at the planetary scale
While it’s worth researching, our quickest and most foolproof methods of drawing down carbon are simple things, like educating women worldwide, getting more people on mass transit and bikes, and cutting industrial emissions from oil and gas, construction, food, plastics and other waste, such as crypto and fast fashion.
Edit: if you are feeling depressed about it, I remember reading this book as part of a class and it being pretty interesting on the stuff we can do today to fix the climate. Not moonshot ideas like orbital mirrors or direct air capture at the planetary scale
https://bookshop.org/p/books/drawdown-the-most-comprehensive-plan-ever-proposed-to-reverse-global-warming-paul-hawken/15277859?ean=9780143130444