The surprising way we can cool the planet - Elise Cutts

The Canary Islands are home to Mount Teide, one of the world’s largest active volcanoes.

Capable of spewing tens of millions of cubic meters of lava in a single eruption, Teide’s destructive power is nothing to scoff at.

But there may be a way to use the basalt rock inside Teide to save humanity.

That’s right— blowing up this volcano could offset Earth’s emissions for the foreseeable future.

Obviously, destroying an ancient volcano is not a good idea.

The ecological fallout would be catastrophic and unpredictable.

But even if we harvested some of that basalt, could we really use it to stop climate change?

This theoretical scheme is a dramatic way to enhance one of Earth’s least dramatic natural processes: rock weathering.