Podium: Climate change is inevitable. We must adapt to it

Published September 1, 2008, 4:33 pm, Independent

If geoengineering is defined as purposeful human activity that significantly alters the state of the Earth, we became geoengineers soon after we started using fire, for cooking, land clearance and smelting bronze and iron. During this long engineering apprenticeship, we changed the Earth, but until quite recently, we were unaware that we were doing it, still less the adverse consequences.

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