What if cooling the planet isn’t as complicated as it sounds—but deciding whether to do it is?
When disaster strikes and funding fails, some experts and leaders are considering a Plan B inspired by volcanoes: deliberately cooling the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space.
In an episode of our podcast Shocked, our Climate Systems Engineering initiative’s Founding Faculty Director and University of Chicago Geosciences Professor David Keith explains why temperature—not just extreme heat—is one of the biggest drivers of human mortality:
“It’s just the idea that if it’s a little less sunny, it gets a little bit less hot…I don’t know of a single credible argument that that’s not possible with solar geoengineering.”
Tune in to unpack the science, politics, and ethics of geoengineering and what it could mean for our future on Shocked.
