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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Blot Out the Sun?
Description: Luke Iseman and Andrew Song explain how they think they can cool the planet.
Supposedly, Herodotus wrote that when the Greeks were told that the Persian archers at the Battle of Thermopylae would blot out the sun with their arrows, they responded: “Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade.”
Fast forward to the early 21st century and the issue is no longer Persian arrows, but the relentless heat from a sun less and less buffered by earth’s atmosphere because of the accumulated greenhouse gasses. The result, according to scientists, is a rapidly warming planet...