According to Bloomberg, venture capital and private equity invested more than 53 billion in climate tech last year. How much of it is motivated by absolving guilt fear? This is not the first time Silicon Valley has said we're big on climate. But for the first time they did it, they got burned because they realized that steel and concrete is not software.
After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis as an engineering problem requiring an acceleration of investment. And so, after producing the acclaimed climate podcast “How We Survive” for Marketplace, she left that program to begin a new career in venture capital. What are the limits of media in changing human behavior? And what is the role of capital in addressing the climate crisis, even while considering that capitalism itself may be incompatible with survival?
Guests:
Molly Wood, Climate Solutions Investor, Podcaster
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