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Geoengineering
Season 9
Episode 10
Engineered solutions to reduce warming could be as simple as planting trees or as controversial as injecting huge volumes of aerosols into the stratosphere to cool the planet, raising complex political and ethical questions. We discuss this with Dr. Gernot Wagner of Columbia Business School and Dr. Stephen Gardiner, Professor of Ethics at the University of Washington, both authors on the subject.
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