# The Past The White Barrow Initiative was a global attempt to repair and reverse climate change. United by the reality of the situation, government, industry, religion and science came together to create a series of ‘campfire’ sites. The campsites focused on five umbrella projects each with hundreds of other projects operating under them. Nothing was off the table, and research began into everything from consciousness transferral and cybernetics to Artificial Intelligence and genetic modification. All of which was steered towards addressing the five core issues at the heart of climate change, as expressed in the [Earthshot Prize](https://earthshotprize.org/the-earthshots/). The five projects were based on ambitious nanotech, hopeful of success, occasionally looked like something from wild sci-fi, and in one case totally classified. The aim was to fix the world. They almost made it. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://olivex-1.gitbook.io/dustland-litepaper/story/dustland-history/the-past.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.