The fact that we have unwittingly geoengineered the planet puts us in an extremely awkward position.

And you can say, let's try to think this through rationally.

And can we come up with technologies like solar geoengineering to mitigate or counteract,

you know, our own reckless geoengineering, or you could say,

would you trust this group that completely willy-nilly re-engineered the climate? Would you trust

them to re-engineer it in a rational way? This group that can't even get its act together to cut

emissions. Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast.

Here you'll find extended versions of the interviews from my show on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer.

And today, if the pandemic is the crisis of the moment, and it certainly is, many experts say

climate change is the crisis of our lifetimes.

This year's UN climate report has been

described as a red alert, record high temperatures, rapidly melting ice in the Arctic, all as

carbon emissions continue to climb. While an overwhelming number of people globally believe

governments can and should be doing more politics continues to get in the way.

As President Joe Biden prepares to host an international Earth Day summit, his most important

diplomatic effort on the global stage to date is the climate right for real change, both

domestically and abroad. I'm talking about that today with Pulitzer Prize-winning

journalist and author Elizabeth Colbert. She's a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her new book

Under a White Sky, The Nature of the Future, examines the tough choices need to save the planet.

Let's get right to it.

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