There are plenty of technological solutions to climate change. Just like human activities, technology can be a solution or a cause for more problems. We define technical solutions as a wide variety of approaches, from satellite technology, supporting environmental monitoring and planning, renewable energy technology that helps to reduce environmental and carbon footprint, to industrial carbon capture.
Here’s some good news for the tech fans: this discipline has the power to help us reduce global emissions and even manage extreme weather events. But there is also bad news: technologies like industrial carbon capture, geoengineering, and climate engineering hold promise, yet they encounter significant barriers and are unfeasible at this time and the foreseable future. These proposals, while innovative, lack the scalability needed to address the pressing and extensive challenges of climate and biodiversity disruption we face in the present moment. Some are too idealistic to be practically implemented, while others introduce the potential for unforeseen predicaments due to the intricate nature of climate and biodiversity systems. The complexity of these systems means that the consequences and side effects of technological interventions remain unclear.
