Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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If we can just get through the 21st century, humanity might have a chance, says Elizabeth Kolbert, who is a writer and staff journalist at 'The New Yorker'. We have already intervened in the earth’s system to the extent that we are now living in the ‘Anthropocene’. Maybe we can buy time by intervening even more, with so-called geo-engineering: turning carbon emissions to stone, for example, genetically modifying trees or even dimming the sun by shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere.
After having done so much damage, can we change nature again, this time in order to save it?

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