Holly Jean Buck

Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. However, “net-zero” is a term that conveniently obscures multiple futures. There could be a version of net-zero where the fossil fuel industry continues to emit tens of billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere while establishing an industry for extracting it. Holly Buck argues that focusing on...

Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering will be used to maintain the status quo, but is there another possible future after geoengineering? Can these technologies and...