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Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
By Tim Flannery

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. <strong>Tim Flannery</strong> outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/06/five-outlandish-plans-to-remodel-earth-climate

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Pale Blue Dot

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us." Carl Sagan

Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future

Listen to my podcast on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBDtsEyQN1Y

Based on Tim Flannery's book Now or Never (2018) and the iconic image from Voyager 1.

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North America is a land of immigrants, and not only human immigrants

It was colonized by South American & Asian species after the Chicxulub asteroid devastation & by Asian species (including humans) when the Bering Strait was dry. Then, at the historical (human) scale, Europeans invaded America (15th C) & many subsequent waves of immigration shaped the current North America

Text from #TimFlannery, https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-eternal-frontier/
Map from JF #Kennedy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_of_Immigrants

#FinishedReading #TimFlannery 's epic story of life in North America, from the continent's formation shortly after the dinosaur-destroying asteroid wiped the slate clean, to the modern industrial economy and conservation movement. Parts are a bit repetitive - there's only so many times an animal can pop into the story, be described as 'odd', then go extinct a few million years later, before I lose track - but I loved the scope and ambition. #Bookstodon @bookstodon