The lead essay in Jacobin yesterday was "Against Geoengineering," and this piece is a critique of that essay. "Against Geoengineering" touches upon issues of climate change and of how a human society is to mitigate it.

Any alternate approach to climate change mitigation should start with an essay titled "Beyond Paris: avoiding the trap of carbon metrics" by Camila Moreno and a number of coauthors. The essay's byline is telling: