1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio studios, podcasts, radio news. 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 2: The year is twenty thirty one. A last ditch attempt 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: to cool down our overheating planet by dimming the Sun's 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 2: rays has failed, plunging the Earth into an ice age 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: and throwing humanity into chaos. The remaining survivors struggle to 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: make do with limited resources, living out their days aboard 7 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: a train endlessly circling the globe. Wealthy citizens live in 8 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: safe luxury. Society's cast outs are confined to the back 9 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 2: of the train. Podcasters document everything from small chili studios. 10 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: It's the end of the world as we know it, Okay, 11 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: just kidding. Aside from that last part, this is just 12 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: the plot of the twenty thirteen sci fi film Snow Piercer, 13 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: and don't worry us. Present day podcasters are fine. The 14 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 2: studio is pretty cozy. No ice age yet. But this 15 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 2: idea of humans trying to fight climate change by blocking 16 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 2: the sun has appeared in movies and books for years. 17 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: Usually the effects are disastrous, like so many dystopian fantasies, 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 2: though they've got some basis in reality because the science 19 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: that some of these stories draw from actually exists. 20 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: It's very cheap at the low end, seven billion dollars 21 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: a year to do this in a way that would 22 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: actually slash further warming in half, which is pretty significant. 23 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: Sophia Alexander is a wealth reporter who covers billionaires and 24 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 2: philanthropy for Bloomberg. This approach she's talking about is called 25 00:01:55,080 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: solar radiation modification or SRM for short, and it's part 26 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 2: of a broader field of research called geoengineering, and recently 27 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 2: it started getting a lot more attention from venture capitalists, 28 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 2: startup founders, and billionaires. 29 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, climate change is the issue of our generation 30 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: and probably generations to come, and so it is a 31 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: huge problem that people want solutions to. And for my 32 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,079 Speaker 1: beat covering a lot of billionaire philanthropy, it's a topic 33 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,639 Speaker 1: that a lot of these billionaires are interested in. It's 34 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:33,519 Speaker 1: not really a question of if we can. We definitely can, 35 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,839 Speaker 1: it's just a matter of are we sure we want 36 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: to do this? 37 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 2: Today on the show, why funding for SRM research is 38 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 2: ramping up and why Silicon Valley's interest in experiments to 39 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: block the sun is getting some advocates and researchers worried. 40 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the big take from 41 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: Bloomberg news, Sophie, you've been digging into some new enthusiasm 42 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: around a not so new idea to slow climate change. 43 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 2: Tell me about it. 44 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: So this is called solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification, 45 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: and it's an idea that goes back to the fifties 46 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: but is really only picking up steam now. And the 47 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: idea is to essentially block the sun. There's a number 48 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 1: of methods, but the best researched one is to spray 49 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 1: sulfates into the stratosphere and all of those particles would 50 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: reflect sunlight and then make the planet less hot. 51 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 2: Where does the idea come from. 52 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: The idea actually comes from volcanoes. So something similar happens. 53 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: One of a volcano erupts, It shoots all kinds of 54 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: stuff up, and if it's a very powerful eruption, then 55 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: all of those particles will be shot all the way 56 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: up in In the past, we've seen volcanic eruptions shoot 57 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: millions and millions of tons of sulfates into the stratosphere. 58 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 1: Basically the year after these big volcanic eruptions, all kinds 59 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: of stuff happens. But one of the things that happens 60 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: is the planet is cooled, and so Everyone's like, oh wow, 61 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: this could block the sun. 62 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 2: Wow, and then the idea has picked up steam ever since. 63 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: It didn't really pick up steam again until like the 64 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: late nineteen nineties in the early two thousands, when a 65 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: couple of researchers in California stood in modeling what would 66 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: happen if you did this? And they actually set out 67 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: thinking that they were just going to put the idea 68 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: to rest, but then it turns out that it actually 69 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 1: could work. This Nobel Prize winner Paul Kurutsen publishes a 70 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: paper citing their work, and all of a sudden people 71 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: start taking it seriously, and so it's really starts picking 72 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,800 Speaker 1: up in two thousand and six ish, still a very 73 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: controversial idea, but more and more people are picking it up. 74 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 2: What made you want to start looking into this? Now? 75 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,919 Speaker 1: More philanthropic funding than ever is being put into solar 76 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 1: geo engineering right now, and that is coming from all 77 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 1: the world, including in the UK and in New York. 78 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: But most of the interest and most of the new 79 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,039 Speaker 1: names who are really starting to talk about this and 80 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: start funding this are in Silicon Valley. The fact that 81 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: it's concentrated in Silicon Valley, it makes sense for a 82 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: lot of reasons. For one, that's where the new money is, 83 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:23,000 Speaker 1: but also like, it just sounds cool. It's using technology 84 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: to block the sun and save the planet. That's very 85 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: appealing to a Silicon Valley crowd. 86 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: But it's not just that it seems cool. Some people 87 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: think that, faced with a rapidly warming planet, SRM could 88 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: be one of our best bets. What do proponents say 89 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: about its potential? 90 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: In an ideal world, we would get off greenhouse gases 91 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,919 Speaker 1: and take the steps necessary to stop heating up the planet. 92 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: But we're not doing that, and so we don't want 93 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: to get ten years down the line and realize, oh, 94 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: we don't have any knowledge about this thing, and we're 95 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: just going to have to start doing it because we 96 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: don't have any other choice. So that's what the proponents 97 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: of specifically research think. The proponents of just deploying it 98 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: right now are like, we're already at that point. What 99 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: are we waiting for. Let's do it. We can figure 100 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: out what happens later. 101 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 2: What do the critics say? 102 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: The critics say, that's just it's not a good idea. 103 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: I mean, the critics say, we don't know what's going 104 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: to happen, and so it's just too risky to start 105 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 1: doing this all of a sudden. There are just so 106 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: many things that we would need to get into place 107 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,440 Speaker 1: before we were to start doing it. 108 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 2: But if there's one thing Sophie knows about the tech industry, 109 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 2: it's that it doesn't always wait for permission to start experimenting. 110 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,920 Speaker 2: One startup called Stardust Solutions has raised fifteen million dollars 111 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: just to do research and development on planet cooling tech. 112 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 2: Others are forging ahead. Tell me about some of those startups. 113 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: What are the companies that are actually trying to make 114 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: SRM work. 115 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: So the best known one is make sunsets, but it's 116 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: very controversial in the actual solar geoengineering world because they 117 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: kind of just have this very like stereotypical silicon value 118 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: mentality of move fast and break things. What they do 119 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: is they launch balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. 120 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: But it's just simply not enough sulfur dioxide to actually 121 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: be doing anything because if you have it patchwork, if 122 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,440 Speaker 1: you're only deploying sulfates and one part of the globe, 123 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: that's going to have adverse effects on the climate, on 124 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: rain patterns, on things like that this needs to be 125 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: evenly distributed around the whole planet, which is why there's 126 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: so much emphasis on this being, you know, a geopolitical hurdle. 127 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: And I mean, there's this novel, The Termination Shock by 128 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: Neil Stevenson, and that was actually the inspiration for make Sunsets. 129 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: And in that novel there's this billionaire mc cooligan. 130 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: Nike Cooligan logan pretty on the nose. 131 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: And he shoots sulfur into the statosphere and like it's 132 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: not a happy ending, Like by any means, it's not good. 133 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: After the break. Why the tech sector's interest in SRM 134 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: is so worrying to scientists and nonprofits? Where government regulation 135 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 2: comes in and what happens when communities affected by geoengineering 136 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 2: experiments push back. We've been talking to Sophie Alexander, a 137 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 2: wealth reporter for Bloomberg about solar radiation modification. It's a 138 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 2: controversial technology that's meant to cool the warming planet by 139 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 2: blocking the sun. I ask Sophie why the tech industry's 140 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: involvement in SRM is especially divisive. 141 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, first of all, it's just controversial to 142 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: begin with, to geoengineer the planet. We don't know what 143 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: might come from it, which is why so many people 144 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: are committing all of money to research. For the most 145 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: part is so we can figure out, Okay, how is 146 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: this going to affect rainfall, How is this going to 147 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: affect you know, malaria patterns and things like that. 148 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 2: Spraying sunlight reflecting sulfates into the stratosphere could have any 149 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 2: number of unintended consequences. Critics say cooling the earth too 150 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:25,079 Speaker 2: much could cause crop failures and disease outbreaks, but turning 151 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: off the sulfate guns too quickly could also risk plunging 152 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 2: the Earth into something called termination shock. The Grave scenario 153 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 2: Neil Stevenson's sci fi book is named. 154 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,760 Speaker 1: After Termination Shock is what would happen if we weren't 155 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: to wean ourselves off of solar geoengineering. If we were 156 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: to all of a sudden cold Turkey and stop shooting 157 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: sulfates into the air, then the planet would just heat 158 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: up really fast. It would basically like make up for 159 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: lost time, and that would cause all sorts of weather 160 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: problems and other problems. 161 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: With the global stakes of solar geoengineering. So Hi Sophie says, 162 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 2: there are also major concerns about how this kind of 163 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 2: technology would be regulated. And which governments or individuals would 164 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,359 Speaker 2: be calling the shots. 165 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,839 Speaker 1: There is a camp that is trying to make sure 166 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 1: that we are prepared for the inevitable geopolitical issues that 167 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: will come with this, which include getting more of this 168 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: research to come from the Global South so that if 169 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: the time comes where governments are making the decision of 170 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 1: okay are we going to do this, countries in the 171 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: Global South can go to their own researchers and say, well, 172 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: should we do this? How will this impact us? 173 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,959 Speaker 2: But Sophie says, the people driving these efforts aren't always 174 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 2: thinking about that impact. A few years ago, a Harvard 175 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 2: University led SRM research project, funded in part by Bill Gates, 176 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 2: was set to launch in the Swedish Arctic. The indigenous 177 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 2: community that lived there wasn't consulted first, and after protests 178 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 2: and pushback, the experiment with canceled. 179 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: The move fast and break things ethos is sort of like, well, 180 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: I don't have time to make sure that everyone's okay 181 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: with this, We just need to do this. 182 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 2: The US and the EU are beginning to dip their 183 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: toes into funding SRM research, but while the US is 184 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 2: trying to develop ways to suss out rogue launches. The 185 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 2: space is still largely unregulated. When Sophie asked the US's 186 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 2: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration whether it had any protocols 187 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 2: to deal with an unauthorized deployment of the technology, for example, 188 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,839 Speaker 2: it said it wasn't aware. 189 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: Of any If we wanted to do this, like we 190 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: could start doing this. It's really more of like a 191 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,839 Speaker 1: political issue, Like the US government has really taken its 192 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: time with touching this at all. They only designated explicit 193 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 1: funding for SRM research through NOAH in twenty twenty. 194 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 2: Some of the people that you're talking to are worried 195 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 2: that the developing this technology are not going to wait, 196 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 2: that they're going to apply silicon valleys, move fast and 197 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 2: break things mentality to this rollout. Why is that so 198 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: scary to some people? 199 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,960 Speaker 1: There is the risk that if we move fast and 200 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: break things on the scale of make sunsets, which is 201 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 1: small or a more medium sized scale, or even a 202 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: bigger scale, you're just going to erode trust in the public. 203 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: That is necessary because a lot of people are afraid 204 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: that people want to use this technology to sort of 205 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: push back the date that we can reduce our emissions. 206 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: We are getting hotter and hotter, and there's no signs 207 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: of that stopping. 208 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 2: This is the Big Take from Bloomberg News. 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