Venture Capitalists have sold us on a lot of stories that didn't quite turn out to be as they presented. Capitalism is basically like any other organism unregulated and left to grow unchecked, it will 100% kill us all. I do not think this is like the winner. But it's the system that we have in on the globe at the moment that has produced the most outcomes.
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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