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May 2023

5m 27s

Whales! A climate solution no one is tal...

About this episode

Last week The Scientific American newsletter talked about the viability of using a carbon credit system to revive declining whale populations. So in today’s episode for 5th May 2023, we discuss a bizarre but plausible idea of protecting whales to fight climate change.

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