Geoengineering solves inequality.

[Jonathan; December 2020; Managing Editor at Harvard Magazine, citing Dan Schrag, Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment; Harvard Magazine, “Controlling the Global Thermostat,” ]

“Potentially interesting,” he adds, “is the fact that the countries most likely to benefit are lower-income. They don’t have the resources for adaptation, and will weigh the low costs of geoengineering interventions against the high costs of building sea walls and moving populations.” Work by students of Keith, the faculty director of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program, indicates that this type of intervention would decrease global inequality substantially because the benefits are biggest for the poorest populations. “For me,” he says, “that’s the fundamental argument for anything in public policy.”