Earth’s Aging Boosts Heat Risk

Lovelock argues that, like an elderly body, an old Earth is less resilient to heat shocks. Global warming is gradual, but fatal outcomes will come from acute overheating events, so we should prioritize cooling the planet and hardening systems over complacent timelines. This frames geoengineering and resilience as urgent complements to mitigation. — It reframes climate policy toward near‑term planetary cooling and robustness, legitimizing geoengineering and adaptation as central strategies rather than last resorts.