Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Future of managing global environmental change

So can we reverse the impacts of global environmental change?

Since the first post of this blog, I have attempted to explore different management strategies proposed or implemented (already) against the global environmental change impacts across the world. Ranging from global cooperation efforts - on the road of positive future since the Paris Agreement - , hardcore geoengineering technologies that could rapidly alter the Earth's system particularly related to the CO2 emissions, to global conservation works agreed by the IUCN member parties. 

     Although all of those methods have potential to improve or even reverse current Earth system to pre-industrial state, lot of questions remain unanswered; whether such techniques will be cost-effective, how long will it take to show 'significant' result on Earth, will humans be able to cancel the implementation in the future if the results are detrimental to Earth? 

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