In this second interview I had the honour to chat with Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, Associate Professor of Paleoecology at the University of Maine. These are some of the topics we talked about:
- How do we define what is alive and what is not?
- Origins of life on Earth
- CO2 concentration in Earth’s atmosphere, how back data can go, how do we measure it?
- Ice cores, seafloor cores, plant fossils
- Tectonic plates
- Migrations thousands of years ago and its drivers
- What drives CO2 levels in the atmosphere, long-term, short-term and now
- Natural ways of carbon capture
- Milankovitch cycles
- Can we use plants to manipulate climate?
- Geoengineering
- Carbon capture technology and drivers
- Geopolitical implications and ethics
- The importance of immediate action
- The real problem… consumption and inequality
- Planetary stewardship
