Gernot Wagner is a research associate at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy, and a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
His most recent book, Climate Shock, joint with Harvard’s Martin Weitzman and published by Princeton University Press, is a 2015 Top 15 Financial Times McKinsey Business Book. His books have earned plaudits from voices as diverse as Van Jones and Bill McKibben on the one hand and Peter Orszag, Jeff Sachs, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the other.
Prior to Harvard, Gernot served as economist at the Environment Defense Fund, most recently as its lead senior economist and member of its Leadership Council. He has taught energy economics at Columbia and the NYU Stern School of Business.
Can These Taboo Techs Solve Climate Change?
What raises hackles as much as "GMOs"? Geo-engineering and nuclear of course! But in one view, these are the exact two technologies that can best address climate change and our growing energy needs. Is it not incumbent on us to fully explore technologies that could most affect climate change mitigation, the economy and global development?
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MANkind’s evolving relationship with tools and MACHINES is nothing new. But the speed at which we, and everything around us, are becoming more closely connected and NETWORKed is.
