It's bad economics to be a bad actor around the climate. And I 100% think that that message can come from consumers, from other businesses. Even if every government agrees to every promise they made at COP26, we still won't make 1.5 degrees of warming. There is an increasing conversation about stakeholder capitalism. Can we continue to have compounded quarterly growth of more, more, more stuff on a limited planet? Because you did the mining story. You admitted, I think you had this sort of wonder and kind of fear of a 14 year old looking at the mining operation. We are realizing that again, growth of any organism will kill you. The only thing that grows it
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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