'In order to prevent an unprecedented disaster, humankind might have to make an unprecedented effort.”
The largest oil rig in the world, the $12 billion Berkut located north of Japan. It sucks up 4.5 million tons of hydrocarbons per year. The multi-trillion dollar fossil fuel industry isn't going to change anytime soon, so perhaps we will have to refreeze the Antarctic after all.and accounts for nearly 20% of the world’s total oil consumption per day. Under President Trump, it's also the only country in the world not to agree to the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation.
"We currently have no way of protecting our cities, New York, Shanghai, London and Hong Kong, for example, against this amount of sea level rise. In order to prevent an unprecedented disaster, humankind might have to make an unprecedented effort." "We don't have any further research planned because...I don't really like the idea. I feel obliged to give it to society because it is a thing that can be done and it has to be considered. Now, any next step would have to involve society, meaning that a government, or potentially all governments, would have to agree that this is something we want to do," Levermann says.
"I'm strongly opposed to geoengineering on a large scale. People call what we did geoengineering, but I would say that's not, because I don't want to interfere with any dynamic system because we don't understand these dynamic systems."Energy & Environment News
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