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Sustainable Minimalists

HEADLINES: Geoengineering

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Identifying 5 expensive and downright impractical geoengineering ideas designed to curb global warming: [5:30] 2 direct carbon capture projects (one of which plans to drill more oil) [8:30] A gigantic umbrella in space? [10:00] Adding iron to the ocean in hopes of spurring algae blooms [13:00] Sending sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere in weather balloons, oh my   Resources mentioned: This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube. Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

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1:05.0

Well, hello my, and welcome back. You're listening to another headlines episode here on the Sustainable Minimalist

1:09.4

podcast.

1:10.0

And as a reminder on these headlines episodes, we do things a bit differently.

1:15.0

I'm giving you the need to know environmental news headlines in 15-ish minutes.

1:21.0

Today we're talking all about geoengineering.

1:25.0

Geoengineering projects are designed to change the Earth's atmosphere and hopefully curb global warming.

1:32.0

Specifically, we are seeking to at the very least think

1:37.6

about today this question. The question is can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis?

1:48.2

Can we? I'm not sure. We're going to think about that question though today. I'm talking infusing clouds with

1:55.7

sulfur dioxide to block the sun's rays. I'm talking vacuuming carbon dioxide out of air.

2:02.4

I'm talking adding iron to the ocean to draw greenhouse gases to the sea floor

2:08.7

so buckle up my friends this is going to be a real interesting 15 minutes now as recently as a few

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