CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.
Graciela ChichilniskySigns of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
Graciela ChichilniskyTrees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it.
Graciela ChichilniskyTrying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.
Graciela ChichilniskyChanging the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.
Graciela Chichilnisky