Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate

If we had a real climate emergency - the ecological equivalent of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown - could geoengineering help cool the planet, avert crisis, and sustain future life on earth? Or is geoengineering closer to scientific hubris, boasting of technically daring and outlandish schemes, such as contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that deflect sunlight away from the earth, artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the atmosphere? What happens to our relationship with nature if we find ourselves living in a giant terrarium? Goodell explores the scientific, political, financial and moral aspects of these deeply complex and controversial issues.

Speaker: Jeff Goodell, Journalist; Author, How to Cool the Planet