The Cost Of Doing Nothing w/ Nick Cooney (#80)

Lately, it's starting to feel like more people I meet are starting to sign up for team hopeless. There's a climate crisis, a few wars waging, and the most powerful and influential country on earth is openly accepting bribes, pardoning white collar criminals and using the White House lawn as a used car sales lot. And oh yeah, we still have to pay our mortgages, feed ourselves, and figure out what that weird rash is. You're right, it's aaa lot.

But what I have in common with my guest Nick Cooney author of the book, "What We Don’t Do: Inaction in the Face of Suffering and the Drive to Do More" reframes modern ethics around the true cost of doing nothing.

Because the worst thing we can all do in the face of mounting issues... is nothing.

Nick Cooney is the Founder of Lever VC, a venture fund backing the next wave of sustainability innovators—from plant-based foods and fermentation-derived proteins to disease-detection software and precision animal genetics.

He’s also a seasoned nonprofit leader: founder of The Humane League, co-founder of the Good Food Institute, and today Board Chair of the Lever Foundation, a charity accelerating sustainable food supply chains across Asia.

Nick is someone focused on doing what he can to make tomorrow a better place. But today, we’ll explore why small choices can add up to massive change, how to do good without burning out, and what it means to shift from bystander to changemaker.

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