The Planet Remade

Oliver Morton writes about geoengineering, the deliberate modification of the planet’s climate, treating it neither as taboo nor as a fix. He works through the science of solar radiation management and carbon removal, the history of weather modification, and the political questions a technology of this kind creates. Who decides, who is compensated, what happens when one country acts alone. His larger argument is that humans have already remade the planet’s basic systems, so the choice is not whether to intervene but whether to do it knowingly.