Can Climate Technology Help Solve Climate Change?

Climate technology can help revert human environmental damage, but can we innovate our way out of danger?

Developing new climate technology might be a small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind. If there’s one thing climate strikers have been teaching us, it’s that the public is outraged at our world leaders’ inertia in the face of the climate crisis.

Thanks to technological innovation, hopeful activists and conscious individuals worldwide can now look to climate technology to help veer the Earth off its dreadful track. But what exactly is climate technology, and is it the climate change solution we’ve all been waiting for?

What is climate change?

With the dawn of the industrial revolution, humans began burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas to foster industrial development. Fossil fuels come from the buried remains of fossilized plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. When they are burned to generate energy, all the carbon that was once stored beneath the Earth’s surface is released back into the atmosphere.

Over the last century, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) more than doubled. As a greenhouse gas (GHG), CO2 works to trap…