<p>Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysicist Dr. Martin Elvis explains how beaming power down from solar panels in space might help us decarbonize travel - and how the iron from asteroids might make it all possible.</p><p>Dr. Elvis’s book on asteroid mining is out now. “Asteroids: How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space” can be purchased at <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Asteroids-Greed-Determine-Future-Space/dp/030023192X" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Asteroids-Greed-Determine-Future-Space/dp/030023192X</a>. Music in this episode is Podington Bear’s Blue Highway and Scott Holmes Music’s Embrace. Logo by Noelle Chung.</p>

The Right to Climate?

How are we going to live with anthropogenic global warming? Climate Futures at Harvard talks to professors, activists, and experts about possible social and technical futures of an increasingly unstable world. This season, Climate Futures hunts down big ideas from Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate sci-fi novel Ministry for the Future.