Should We Dim the Skies to Save the World?

Crazy/Genius

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Business, Society & Culture, Technology

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🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Climate change could be the most important problem facing humanity. To address it, scientists are thinking seriously about an idea that might sound like something from a sci-fi dystopia: Spraying the skies with sulfuric acid to partially block out the sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	At the crossroads of artistic insight and intellectual curiosity we find the edge of reason
0:07.0	dive into the heart of artistic inspiration rooted in Enlightenment thinking and discover how contemporary creators are holding a mirror up to society to reflect who we are, where we've been, and where we're headed.
0:20.0	Join me, Jeff Chang, at the Edge of Reason, a new limited podcast from Atlantic
0:25.6	Rethink, the branded content studio at the Atlantic, and Howzer and Worth.
0:29.4	I'm Arturo DAG, a geologist, and actually when I just started and my first experience was Pinatubo, volcano, yeah.
0:45.0	Artero Dog studies volcanoes.
0:50.0	And on June 15, 1991, he was hunkered down in an Air Force base in the Philippines,
0:57.0	10 miles east of Mount Pinatubo. And then, he felt something.
1:04.0	The station is quite near to the volcano and we can feel the rumbling sound.
1:08.0	We feel earthquakes.
1:10.0	It's like every 10 seconds.
1:12.8	We feel earthquake on the ground.
1:14.4	It's just a volcanic earthquake, actually.
1:17.1	Mount Pinatubo would turn out to be the largest
1:19.6	volcanic eruption of the last 100 years.
1:23.2	Inside the big ash cloud is a total darkness like evening and
1:28.1	a raining of ash continuously.
1:31.4	The ash cloud blotted out the sun.
1:35.0	Things got biblical.
1:37.0	So there's initially chaos and we think it's quite dangerous.
1:41.0	Only you can see lightning.
1:44.0	So we don't know what's happening.
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