Time for reflection

Fourteen posts ago, as I began my inquiries into geoengineering I concluded my first post stating that ‘I hold a hesitant view of geoengineering’, believing it to be a distraction from the main agenda and that instead the world ‘should be investing significantly more into renewable industries’ immediately.

Upon reflection of books, journals, magazine extracts and case studies that I have examined over the past three months, I must admit that my viewpoint on geoengineering has changed. I now see carbon removal methods such as Carbon Capture and Storage as well as artificial trees as somewhat favourable. Moreover, I’m keen to keep on reading into these methods to monitor future developments into this field.

The passion that this process has stirred up within myself has also had further personal impacts. Firstly, as a final year undergraduate student with no life plan after May 2017, I have begun looking into potential Masters courses based on Carbon Capture themes, which combines climate issues learned here with my Earth Sciences background. Secondly, after reading into the catastrophic impacts that humans are having on the Earth’s climate, I have developed a moral guilt towards how I personally treat the environment. As a result, I have started to adapt my current lifestyle through acts including majorly reducing my meat intake and switching to soya based products, avoiding environmentally destructive dairy products almost completely. 

I would like to thank any readers who have kept up to date with my posts, and hope you may have learned a thing or two (I certainly have!). I intend provide updates on important geoengineering developments in the coming future.

 

Until then, good afternoon, good evening and goodnight.