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.