Soil people are the biggest optimists that I come across. There is a lot of really incredible regenerative agriculture technologies coming out all the time. The other one that I actually think is a dark horse is like what they sometimes call blue tech, but ocean technologies. We hardly know anything about it. Like there's 2,500 vegetables that none of us have ever gotten to eat that just grow in the ocean. And algae, you know, varieties that are effectively like total protein replacements and algae itself is a huge carbon sink.
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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