Sentences with word «technofix»

Once again, a research team has considered all the benefits of climate technofix — that is, deliberate steps to neutralize the consequences of unrestrained greenhouse gas emissions — and come to a grim conclusion.

TURNING a greenhouse gas into stone is a climate change technofix suggested for Earth.

Using technofixes to tinker with global climate systems is an excuse to avoid unpopular but necessary measures to reduce carbon emissions

An Ecomodernist Manifesto does not offer a new way out of the climate morass, but only a warmed - over version of the old - fashioned American technofix.

Chasing technofixes is at best a distraction and at worst a ploy.

We need to be focussing on radical emissions cuts, not dangerous and unjust technofixes.»

«The pressure is really on the science community to develop the technofix solutions we're going to need,» he says.

With half of Republican voters favoring government action to tackle global warming, any Republican administration would be tempted by the technofix to beat all technofixes.

So the technofix remains an option.

Others are in fact «technofixes».

Yet another study sees dangers in the technofix.

«My critique of the technofix is when technology substitutes for political change, which is necessary for bringing about that technological revolution,» replied Hamilton.

Caldeira argues that we should be doing the research now so that when calls for a technofix rise at some moment of future crisis, we can at least know what we're doing, instead of fumbling blindly.