Oblivion's Cross

My novel is a precautionary tale of greed and arrogance, where those with too much power make some poor choices while the planet and its inhabitants pay the cost. So when I saw the article in Sunday's Times about geoengineering, I thought awesome, this should boost sales! Jeremy Freeman, executive director of the non-profit research group Carbon Plan writes: "some techno-futurists, like OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, are already normalizing it: “We’re going to have to do something dramatic with climate like geoengineering as a Band-Aid, as a stop gap,” he said in January at the World Economic Forum in Davos." I actually went to the interview on Bloomberg and listened to the "visionary smart people" predict the future. Be very afraid. They are doubling down on techno-acceleration and green capitalism to save the day. Big "breakthroughs". True believers with lots of money and power. The article goes on to say that: "The alternative is clandestine research controlled by corporations or autocratic regimes, lurching toward deployment without knowing — or knowing and not sharing — the true risks." Exactly. Buy the book.