under a white sky: explore the interventions that could reverse the environmental damage humans have caused  explore the interventions that could reverse the environmental damage humans have caused. <br> <br>in our time on planet earth, humans have had a massive and undeniable impact. in fact, one so great that some argue we’ve sparked an entirely new geological era: the anthropocene. <br> <br>humans now control the world’s major rivers, our biomass outweighs that of wild mammals eight to one, and we’ve directly altered half of the ice-free land on our planet. our species has been incredibly successful. but that success has come at a heavy cost: atmospheric and oceanic warming, extinction, desertification, and deglaciation. <br> <br>in the past, people spoke of “the control of nature” –⁠ in other words, using technology to solve the problems that nature presented. those solutions, however, created entirely different problems –⁠ ones that are now in dire need of solving. these blinks tell their story.