Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.
Graciela ChichilniskyClimate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.
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 ChichilniskySigns of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.
Graciela ChichilniskyAs difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change.
Graciela ChichilniskyWe know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.
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