Fwd: Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions
Louise Mitchell
From: Nate Hagens from The Great Simplification <nateh...@substack.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Subject: Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate Interventions
To: <louise....@bio4climate.org>
Fighting for a Livable Future: Exploring Frontier Climate InterventionsThe Great Simplification #204 with Kelly Erhart
While current conversations about global heating tend to center around a few well-established pieces of science, we don’t often hear about the scientists and leaders working at the frontier of what is still unknown about Earth’s systems. This includes unpredictable tipping points and cascading effects of our rapidly changing climate, as well as the unconventional adaptation strategies that might help us maintain a stable planet. What is the newest climate science being researched right now, and what areas are we still needing to explore as we fight for a livable future? In this episode, I’m joined by climate philanthropist Kelly Erhart to discuss the urgent state of climate science and emerging response strategies beyond traditional mitigation and adaptation. Kelly explains the climate research that reveals increasingly alarming risks, including natural feedback loops such as glacier collapse, declining albedo (the reflectivity of Earth), and methane release from melting permafrost. We also discuss frontier emergency climate interventions such as oceanic carbon sequestration, atmospheric methane removal, and glacier stabilization strategies, among others – while emphasizing that none of these replace the need for the drastic reduction of emissions. What are the biggest climate questions that are currently being researched? How can an interdisciplinary approach help us better understand the climate mitigation and adaptation options available to us? And finally, how do we, especially the youngest among us, maintain hope and motivation to continue working towards better outcomes for humanity and the planet?  Listen on your favorite podcast platform We will always keep all of our content free for everyone — however, you can voluntarily upgrade your subscription to help ensure this possibility. In case you missed it…In last week’s Frankly, I explored how the prices we encounter in our daily lives are influenced by not only how much money is in the system, but also by resource depletion, technology, affordability by ‘the masses,’ and trust within a complex global system.  Listen on your favorite podcast platform If you want to support The Great Simplification podcast…The Great Simplification podcast is produced by The Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future (ISEOF), a 501(c)(3) organization. We want to keep all content completely free to view globally and without ads. If you’d like to support ISEOF and its content via a tax-deductible donation, please use the link below. Support The Great Simplification Want to connect with other TGS listeners?
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