It's hard to imagine exactly what a global effort on this would look like, precisely because we can't agree on very many things and starting something like geoengineering. Right now, the pitch is a podcast where real entrepreneurs pitch real tech investors for real money. Each episode follows a hopeful entrepreneur through their business pitch before a panel of prospective investors.
Solar geoengineering — the idea of cooling the planet by deflecting the sun’s rays — is so risky that scientists and policy experts can’t even agree on whether to research it.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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