Changing the World (Literally)

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Could we create an atmospheric sun shield to halt the effects of global warming? Should we? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly are joined by climate scientist Daniele Visioni and sociologist Holly Jean Buck to explore the science and ethics of deliberately altering Earth’s climate.

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0:00.0	All this talk of geoengineering sounds like the plot of a movie soon to be written.
0:04.0	Yeah, a Bond movie.
0:05.1	A Bond movie.
0:06.0	Yes.
0:06.6	And a Bond movie always comes with a Bond villain.
0:08.6	That's what I'm talking about.
0:09.4	So the Bond villain is controlling the geoengineering.
0:12.4	All right.
0:13.3	Coming up, we're going to find out, is it Bond villain or is it science on StarTalk.
0:20.4	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:22.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:28.7	StarTalk begins right now.
0:33.1	This is StarTalk.
0:35.4	Neil DeGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist,
0:38.2	and this is special edition,
0:40.5	and we're going to be talking about geoengineering.
0:45.5	Gary, you cook this up.
0:47.6	Yes.
0:47.9	My co-host, Gary here.
0:49.0	How are you doing, man?
0:49.6	I'm good.
0:50.3	All right, you're looking in good shape.
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