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“Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.”

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Graciela Chichilnisky is an influential scholar in the fields of economics and environmental science. Born in 1944, she is renowned for her research on sustainable development and climate change policy. more

“Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would only capture at most 10 percent of the CO2 we need to reduce. This does not mean that we should not plant trees; we should, for biodiversity's sake, and for our long-term future together with the other species.”

“Trees and clean energy [are] the long-run solution but we have no time to wait for the long run. We need a short-run solution now, and one that encourages and facilitates the transition to the long-run solution.”

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Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Geoengineering means changing the Earth's fundamental large-scale processes.”

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“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.”

“The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.”

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Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of the oceans kills tiny crustaceans, such as krill, that are the basis of the pyramid of life on the planet as we know it.”

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