Science writer Rowan Hooper answers a simple question: what is the best way to spend a trillion dollars to make Earth a better place and advance science?

If you had a trillion dollars and wanted to improve the world, how would you spend it?

With numerous global problems and the growing climate crisis, it is difficult to know what to improve first.

In his 2021 book, Rowan Hooper investigates how we could use a trillion dollars to mitigate the effects of climate change, advance our knowledge, and make the planet a better place for all life.

Hooper is an author and managing editor of New Science magazine.

With a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and more than a decade of writing on various scientific topics, Hooper debates if human ingenuity will prevail over greed and ignorance.