Questionable solutions
Geoengineering, carbon offsets and other "solutions" that many climate scientists reject as unfeasible, ineffective, or extremely risky.
Better to adapt than mitigate? This is like saying 'It's better to smoke, get cancer, then spend years in chemo- and radiotherapy, than to ...
"'Coal = Jobs.' Yes, for lung doctors."—Thomas Friedman, New York Times Columnist
" 'Clean coal' represents a breakthrough —in the marketing of coal. But it does not represent a breakthrough in the burning of coal." ...
"Carbon offsets...are like pushing your food around your plate to give the impression you've eaten it."
"Before we start geoengineering we have to raise the following question: are we sufficiently talented to take on what might become the onero ...
“Is heart surgery preferable to a good diet? Of course not. Let’s go for the good diet.”—Bill Gates, on geoengineering.