Five outlandish 20th-century geoengineering proposals to remodel Earth's climate
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Tim Flannery
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This article explores the history of geoengineering ideas, focusing on five outlandish 20th-century proposals to remodel Earth's climate. Written by Tim Flannery, it covers concepts like bombing the Arctic with soot to melt ice, damming the Mediterranean, building a second moon, and other radical interventions. The piece contextualizes these ideas within the growing discourse that technological intervention may be necessary to address the climate crisis, while highlighting the hubris and unintended consequences that often accompanied such grand schemes.
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· 3 pulledAn increasing number of scientists think we have let the climate crisis fester for so long that our only hope to stave off ever-intensifying catastrophes is to use technological interventions.
Geoengineering, they argue, is now inevitable.
Ever since the God of the Old Testament granted our species dominion over the Earth, ideas of remaking the world...
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