Well over a thousand structures burned down. We were evacuated because the fire burned for six days or seven days. And while we were still evacuated, we knew we had to do something in partBecause there's a real misperception about Malibu,. which is that everybody's rich people and it's just not true. So my wife worked on Wall Street, but then she'd also been involved in philanthropy and I've done stuff in philanthropy so we decided we would create the Malibu foundation.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Trevor Neilson, founder of startup Wastefuel and the Climate Emergency Fund, to talk about how he helped launch and finance Extinction Rebellion (XR) (4:50), how the Malibu wildfires inspired him to act (8:20), meeting Roger Hallam, founder of XR and Just Stop Oil (16:00), bankrolling protestors (18:00), why he thinks the movement has gone off the rails (22:50), whether he is worried about what his former colleagues will think (32:00), how XR has experimented with changing tactics (40:30), where and how he grew up (43:30), getting a job at the White House (46:30), working with Bono on AIDS (50:00), starting his own company (55:00), why he does not think we will meet the 1.5 degree goal (58:10), telling the truth (1:09:00), and the children suing Montana (1:11:50)
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