Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it. You can read more about Johannes' work at http://founderspledge.com/climate
Timestamps:
00:00 Johannes's journey as an environmentalist
13:21 The drivers of climate change
23:00 Oil, coal, and gas
38:05 Solar, wind, and hydro
49:34 Nuclear energy
57:03 Geothermal energy
1:00:41 Most promising technologies
1:05:40 Government subsidies
1:13:28 Carbon taxation
1:17:10 Planting trees
1:21:53 Influencing government policy
1:26:39 Different climate scenarios
1:34:49 Economic growth and emissions
1:37:23 Social stability
References:
Emissions by sector: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Energy density of different energy sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25341-9
Emissions forecasts: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/the-unconditional-probability-distribution-of-future-emissions-and-temperatures/ and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6248
Risk management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJvIR1W-xI
Carbon pricing: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(18)30567-1.pdf
Why not simply plant trees?: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-need-offset-our-carbon-emissions
Deforestation: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade3535
Decoupling of economic growth and emissions: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonbudget/22/highlights.htm
Premature deaths from air pollution: https://www.unep.org/interactives/air-pollution-note/
