Planetary Engineering: The Most Neglected Lever on Climate?

Mox Event Space (Mission 13th St) Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ Climate change gets enormous attention; deliberately engineering the planet to counteract it gets almost none. Yet solar radiation modification (SRM), injecting aerosols into the stratosphere, brightening marine clouds, could offset a large fraction of warming within years, at a cost measured in billions rather than trillions. Ocean iron fertilization and enhanced rock weathering offer analogous levers for carbon drawdown. By the standard importance–tractability–neglectedness test, this may be one of the most under-explored areas in climate. It's also one of the most dangerous. SRM is cheap enough that a single nation, or a single billionaire, could deploy it unilaterally, imposing planetary consequences on everyone (the "free driver" problem). Governance is nowhere close to ready. If that structure sounds familiar, it should: like advanced AI, geoengineering is a powerful dual-use technology where capability is outpacing oversight, and where the hard questions are as much about coordination as about engineering. Join us at Mox for a discussion of the science, the risks, and the governance gap, and whether this deserves a place on the EA priority list. No climate background needed; skepticism welcome. 4th floor Host: Jennifer Baik More info: luma.com/fbqbd820 ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do Do not edit this event! changes will be overwritten