The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change, with Professor Steve Keen
This episode, we have a guest on the show that I'm very excited about. Professor Steve Keen is an economist and author who has been a longstanding critic of neoclassical economics, which has included ...
1 Feb 20211h 13min
Climate 201: Drawdown II: Fridges, Regenerative Agriculture, and Technological Sliding Doors
In this episode of our Climate 201 series, we continue discussing the practical emissions-reduction solutions from Project Drawdown - talking about regenerative agriculture, managing refridgerants, an...
30 Jan 202140min
Debunking Economics, with Professor Steve Keen
This episode, we have a guest on the show that I'm very excited about. Professor Steve Keen is an economist and author who has been a longstanding critic of neoclassical economics, which has included ...
26 Jan 20211h 4min
Climate 201: Project Drawdown's Solutions, Part I
In this Climate 201 episode, we look at some of the climate change mitigation solutions proposed by Project Drawdown, in an effort to be more quantiative about what needs to be done to address our gre...
19 Jan 202136min
Climate 201: What Drives Global CO2 Emissions?
In this episode, we discuss the Kaya decomposition - splitting CO2 emissions into CO2/energy, Energy/GDP, GDP/person, and population. We'll talk about its usefulness and limitations in tracking what d...
12 Jan 202129min
Climate Conversations: How the Tech/IT Sector Should (+ Shouldn't) Address Climate Change, with Paul D Johnston
I sat down with Paul Johnston (@PaulDJohnston), cloud computing expert and tech/climate scholar, to talk about how the tech sector should tackle climate change, as well as his experiences discussing c...
7 Jan 20211h 5min
Lord Martin Rees on Catastrophe, Cosmology, and the Future
Sometimes in this game you get to do an interview where you genuinely can say: "the person I'm about to interview needs no introduction." This is one of those occasions. But if I were to do that, it w...
1 Jan 20211h 7min
Thermonuclear Takes: Uber, Boston Dynamics, Income Inequality, Climate Change
A bumper episode with a crop of interesting news stories to round out the year: -> Uber sells its self-driving car section, and Softbank sells robot company Boston Dynamics. What can we infer from th...
21 Des 20201h
