Time has run out. Physicist David Keith has spent the past 30 years fighting for research into a disruptive, planetary-cooling technology called solar geoengineering. He knows for certain it will work, it’s fast, and in the words of Al Gore it is “utterly mad”. Defiant in the face of personal attacks and death threats, his attempt to launch the first experiment into the stratosphere has divided the environmental community, spawned the viral chemtrail conspiracy and inspired a rogue start-up company to begin their own deployment. As he drives this idea out of the lab and into a planet in the grips of a climate meltdown, are there any ideas too risky to explore?
Filmmaker details Ben Kalina
Ben Kalina é um realizador e produtor de documentários distinguido com diversos prémios, cuja obra explora a interseção entre a natureza humana e as mudanças sociais e ambientais. A sua primeira longa-metragem Ben is a director and producer whose work centers on the collision between humanity, technology and the force of nature. His 2014 film Shored Up explored rising sea levels and the politics of climate change in the U.S. in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, winning the Sundance Institute LightStay Sustainability Award and airing on DirecTV. His 2020 PBS NOVA film Can We Cool the Planet? surveyed the landscape of emergent climate solutions around the world, while A River Reborn and Higher Ground center on complex challenges facing rural and urban communities in his adopted state of Pennsylvania.