Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser
Sep 1, 2019
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Kelly Wanser, a climate innovation activist, dives into the urgent necessity of climate intervention strategies. She discusses the dual effects of industrial emissions—how they can both warm the planet and reflect sunlight. Wanser explores the promising, albeit risky, concept of "cloud brightening" as a potential tool to mitigate climate change. She emphasizes the importance of rapid action and collaborative research to develop innovative solutions that address the health impacts of environmental crises.
As we recklessly warm the planet by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, some industrial emissions also produce particles that reflect sunshine back into space, putting a check on global warming that we're only starting to understand. Climate activist Kelly Wanser asks: Can we engineer ways to harness this effect and further reduce warming? Learn more about the promises and risks of "cloud brightening" -- and how it could help restore our climate to health.