What If We Woke Up Volcanoes to Fight Climate Change?

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Several volcanoes around the world are being woken up on purpose. The mission? To use volcanic eruptions to protect the Earth from global warming. In what ways could you activate a volcano? How could you do this in the safest way possible? And would this save the planet or create more climate chaos? How will they stop climate change? What is solar geoengineering?

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00:00 Waking up volcanoes to stop global warming.
00:45 What is solar geoengineering?
02:03 Activating volcanoes with a nuke.
05:02 Evacuating the devastated areas.

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