Kelly Wanser: Innovations for Rapid Climate Intervention with Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of SilverLining

Kelly Wanser joined 4-Good Ventures to talk about rapid innovations for a fast-moving problem.

Is it too late to solve climate change? "Today, we have slow-moving solutions to a fast-moving problem," says Kelly Wanser, Executive Director of Silver Lining. Wanser has spent her career combatting climate change with rapid scientific innovation at the intersection of technology, environment, and policy. Here are some of the key takeaways:

• Here is how we should think about rapid intervention: What do we have in our portfolio to manage risk for the next 30 years?

  • No matter what steps we take now, climate change is going to happen up until 2050

• We have funding and plans for lower risk events like astroids and super volcanos; why not global warming?

  • We must re-think how we allocate funds and programs to mitigate the risk for higher probability disasters

• With climate change, how should we think about “man getting out of the way” versus “man managing Mother Nature”?

  • Scientists have been watching how natural events change the course of climate change

  • Opportunities to learn from Mother Nature

  • We can study how recent global events like the Mt Pinatubo eruption in 1991 caused the climate to cool for over a year

  • We can learn from what happened during that eruption — and try to recreate it through programs like cloud brightening.

  • How radical is climate intervention, really?