About Wake Smith

As a lecturer at Yale University, Wake Smith teaches a world-leading undergraduate course on climate intervention, the syllabus of which forms the basis of this book. Smith is also a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, writing scholarly articles on the aeronautics, costs, and governance of solar geoengineering. Prior to his academic career, Smith served in several executive roles in the commercial aviation industry, including as the President of the flight training division of Boeing and the COO of Atlas Air. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Business School.

Why I Wrote Pandora's Toolbox

This book grows out of a course I teach at Yale that is, insofar as I am aware, the world’s first undergraduate survey course on climate intervention or “geoengineering”.  My motivation for pioneering the course and subsequently writing the book is that I am convinced the world will require vastly more climate intervention in the future than it appreciates.  Emissions reductions remain the urgent priority, but reaching net zero emissions will not solve the climate problem.  It will merely stop making it worse.  Both to hasten the pace to net zero and to repair the climate thereafter, we will need massive amounts of climate intervention.  Funding, governing, and implementing these novel technologies will be tomorrow’s problem.  Today’s problem is that few people have even heard of geoengineering.  This book aims to change that.

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