348: Thomas Kostigen | Hacking Planet Earth
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Thomas Kostigen (@kostigen) is a New York Times bestselling author and journalist. His latest book is Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future.
What We Discuss with Thomas Kostigen:- What is geoengineering, how is it being used today, and what forms will it take with rapidly developing technology?
- Why those who stand to be the first victims of climate disenfranchisement certainly won't be the last.
- How soon we need to act, and to what degree, if we want to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
- How we can use geoengineering to catalyze a solutions-based society that will reduce and eliminate these effects.
- In what ways have we geoengineered the world in the past, and what does this tell us about the transformative power of industry and the role Thomas believes it should play in current and future geoengineering efforts?
- And much more...
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| 1:36.4 | threat to the planet, no surprise there. But while most solutions revolve around recycling or |
| 1:41.6 | government action, Thomas Costigan has some different ideas. Just as we changed our entire planet |
| 1:47.6 | and infrastructure to accommodate the automobile, and our lives have been taken over by the internet |
| 1:52.5 | and mobile phones, our generation and those coming after us can take the reins in partnership |
| 1:57.4 | with Big Business to geoengineer our way to a safer world. Today, we'll address some of the |
| 2:04.1 | admittedly wackier but still scientifically sound ideas in geoengineering, |
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