Hacking Planet Earth w/ Thomas Kostigen

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by the author of “Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future,” Thomas Kostigen. They discuss the hype and the promise of technological advancements leading the fight against anthropogenic climate change.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Toth Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 7th, 2020.
0:20.0	Happy Labor Day everybody and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and this week we have a great interview but before we dive into that I do want to thank this week's top
0:30.8	Patrons of the show remember if you want to pledge your support,
0:34.0	you can visit Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy.
0:37.3	This week I want to thank Michael Goshé, Mary Niva,
0:40.6	Christopher Pitts, June Sapphara Pasquale Jalati, Ul Rica Hagman, Dudas Infinitas, Charles Payet,
0:48.0	Brian Holden, and Pedro M Rosario Barbosa. Oh Oh wait there's more Daniel Lang David J. E. Smith
0:57.8	Robert Christ or maybe it's Christ I'm not sure. Welcome to the fold.
1:02.1	Elise Christie. So many freaking awesome people here I can't
1:06.3	even read all of your names thank you from the bottom of my heart you make talk
1:10.3	nerdy possible week after week after week after week.
1:13.6	All right, so this week I had the opportunity to chat with Thomas Kostigan.
1:17.6	He is an award-winning journalist.
1:19.7	He's written for a ton of platforms like the Washington Post,
1:24.7	Discover LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal.
1:28.6	He also founded the Climate Survivalist column
1:30.9	for USA Today, and he's written two books for National Geographic
1:34.6	on climate preparedness. His newest book is called Hacking Planet Earth
1:39.8	how Geoengineering can help us reimagine the future.
1:43.6	So yeah, let's learn about how to hack planet Earth.
1:46.8	Without any further ado, here he is Thomas M. Kostigan.
1:55.0	Well Thomas, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks so much for having me.
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