Despite capitalism's ills and the problems that it's caused, this is the most hopeful job I have ever had. The orientation of journalists has become to be only skeptical. So what can money do that information can't? Money can actually enable a solution to be born. "I'm talking to people who are trying to save the world"
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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