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Geo-Engineering the Earth: Mad Science for a Mad Planet (scary because it can be done)

Geo-Engineering the Earth: Mad Science for a Mad Planet (scary because it can be done)

Geologists prefer to call the past two centuries as ‘the anthropocene period, a time when humans have reshaped about half of the Earth’s surface. We have dictated what plants grow and where. We’ve pocked and deformed the Earth’s crust with mines and wells, and we’ve commandeered a huge fraction of its freshwater supply for our own purposes.’ Humans [...]