@kaufman

A major scoop from my friend Robinson Meyer at Heatmap this morning: Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight away from the Earth by the 2030s. It's a fascinating, lengthy story with a balanced view of the dangers of using aerosols to bounce heat back into space -- and the threat of failing to do something like this when mitigating emissions is clearly so far from where it needs to be to preserve a climate similar to what humans evolved in as a species. Rob closed out the story with a line that harkens to one of my all-time favorite books, @CharlesCMann's "1493," an environmental history of the world after Columbus arrived in the Americas and established trans-Atlantic trade reroutes that spread plants and animals that hadn't interacted in millennia around the globe: https://heatmap.news/climate-tech/stardust-geoengineering

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