Reversing Climate Change

Reversing Climate Change

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  • The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: Carbon Removal's Feature Film Debut, LEGION 44—w/ Leila Conners, filmmaker

    We all want to make sure carbon removal works. But who is working to make it beautiful? And could creating beauty be one of the most important jobs in all of climate?

    Leila Conners is a filmmaker who has been making environmental films for decades, including legendary ones like The 11th Hour with Leonardo DiCaprio. Her latest opus is Legion 44, which is a wonderful documentary highlighting so many alumni from this podcast and the CDR industry.

    We also discuss why the antihero is such a popular archetype, how you should construct your media diet, and the role of the feature film when long-form and short-form content are polarizing media duration.

    Legion 44 is now available for viewing on its own website and several other places, as well as on Tree+: Leila's new tv channel that you can download right to your smart tv. Please support her work spotlighting climate solutions and the delightful world of carbon removers.


    "The world will be saved by beauty."

    - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    -- Dorothy Day

    --- Michael Scott (jk... unless?)


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    The 11th Hour

    Koyaanisqatsi

    Philip Glass's theme from ⁠Koyaanisqatsi⁠

    Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother is also a lovely book by Kate Hennessy, and also probably what highlighted this beautiful sentiment for me.

    Ari Aster

    Hereditary

    Graham Hancock

    David Attenborough

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    49 min
  • Is CDR Even Using "Bankability" Correctly?—w/ Ryan Covington, Attorney at Philip Lee LLP

    Or "project finance", for that matter? Or are these just the current words we say at happy hours?

    Today, we attempt to nail down some of these definitions so we might have a chance of achieving either of these concepts.

    Ryan Covington is an attorney and partner in the Climate Projects team of Philip Lee (US) LLP, focused on the development and financing of engineered and nature-based carbon projects. Ryan shares his experience in structuring large financial deals in the carbon removal and climate tech space.

    Can carbon removal ever achieve scale without sufficient commercial finesse? Likely not, but isn't it pretty to think so?

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    J'Accuse...!

    Ryan Covington's profile at Philip Lee LLP

    Philip Lee LLP's Climate Projects page

    The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

    Midnight in Paris scene with Ernest Hemingway

    "359: Why Is the Pulp and Paper Industry So Great for CDR?—w/ Natalie Khtikian & Jon Rhone, Co-Founders of CO280"

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    54 min
  • I'm sailing from Seattle to San Francisco. Want to tag along?

    Are you interested in sailing from Seattle to San Francisco on a sailing vessel older than World War 1?! Well, you can at the end of October 2025. Moreover, you'll be crewing alongside me.

    I recently joined the team of Maritime Blue as an Executive in Residence, working with ocean tech startups on commercial strategy, storytelling, and go-to-market. They're putting on a fabulous ocean conference in Seattle October 20th-26th.

    Right after that and until November 3rd is a passage they've chartered onboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl that you can join as working crew.

    Check out the links to Maritime Blue, One Ocean Week, and the One Ocean Expedition below!

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    Maritime Blue

    One Ocean Week

    One Ocean Expedition (book your passage here!)

    Statsraad Lehmkuhl on Wikipedia

    S2E33: Sailing in the age of climate change—w/ John Kretschmer, author and sailor

    I found the image on Wikipedia and it is is: By Ronnie Robertson - Statsraad IMG_5206, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56179943

    I take no responsibility for the success or failure of the trip. Participation is at your own discretion. I have personally accepted the risk for myself, but every person must choose for themselves.

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    10 min
  • Raising Anti-Doomer Kids & Processing the Many Feelings of Climate Change—w/ Ariella Cook-Shonkoff, MFT; author of Raising Anti-Doomers

    Raising kids is hard enough. How do we do it now when existential dread is such a major part of youth experience? And how do we keep ourselves mentally healthy enough to be good at both our professional climate work and parenting?

    Today's show is with Ariella Cook-Shonkoff, psychotherapist and author of the new book, Raising Anti-Doomers: How to Bring Up Resilient Kids Through Climate Change and Tumultuous Times.

    She answers a bunch of questions I have about how much I should actually be staring into the abyss (but not whether it also stares back into me, weird I know...), agency, how to think about individual vs. collective safety, and how to bring children into a world where the grownups are either asking these enormous questions or pretending we don't need to.

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    Ariella's book, Raising Anti-Doomers: How to Bring Up Resilient Kids Through Climate Change and Tumultuous Times

    Ariella's Psychology Today blog, "The Anti-Doomer Mindset

    Cultivating Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty"

    Climate Action Venn Diagrams from Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

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    56 min
  • Is Climate Action "Quixotic"?: Don Quixote's Psychosis & the Misuses of Political Nostalgia

    Is that a noble man rejecting modernity and embracing tradition? Or is it a lunatic with a lance trying to disembowel a shepherd?

    The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes (Saavedra) is the much beloved literary classic—and perhaps the world's first true novel—but its reputation goes far beyond the book itself. The character has spawned his own adjective: "quixotic", which gets levied at anyone who dares to dream a bit too big.

    But is this a word kind of like "epicurean", whose true meaning is subverted by modern use? I believe the answer is yes.

    This episode goes out to all of the climate people who dare to dream of a better, kinder world, and why I don't think your critics know what being "quixotic" means.

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    "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Don Quixote

    Jainism

    It's hard for me to think about Don Quixote without also thinking about Sir Digby Chicken Caesar from That Mitchell and Webb Look since it is so clearly based upon Sancho and Don Quixote...

    And also Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces

    Man of La Mancha (musical)

    Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition meme

    "Golden Helmet of Mambrino" from Man of La Mancha

    Intertextuality

    I didn't explicitly name cases of left-wing nostalgia, but you can look to the Paris Commune (and earlier revolutionary moments in France), primitive communism, republican Spain, the consensus capitalism nostalgia of Michael Moore, etc.

    Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir

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    22 min
  • Lowering the Onion into Hell: Strategic Realism vs. Christian Pacifism

    In The Brothers Karamazov, the character Grushenka tells a story about an old peasant woman who never did a good deed in her entire life and went to Hell when she died. The woman's guardian angel petitioned God to let him search her life for a single good deed and if he found one, God would let her into Heaven. God agreed. It turns out she had once given a beggar an onion! Her single good deed! So God told the guardian angel to lower the onion into Hell to lift her out of the Lake of Fire...

    What happens next depends upon the teller of the tale...


    Today we venture into theology and the surprisingly radical nature of Christianity. Dorothy Day once quoted in The Long Loneliness, "no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy." I do my best to untangle what is genuinely striking in reading the Gospels with fresh eyes, and contrast that against much of the market-oriented and security competition games that dominate our world.

    So much of where that leads us sounds silly in the cold light of day. It's downright maladaptive to worldly success. But as Léon Bloy once said, "the only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint." So, what the hell are we supposed to make of a world that is so at odds with the gentleness commanded by so many of the world's spiritual traditions?

    I'll share with you what I've learned about myself in trying to become simpler, and do so with as open a heart as I can muster.


    "Do I contradict myself?
    Very well then I contradict myself,
    (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

    — Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself,", Leaves of Grass


    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire


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    43 min
  • Carbon Markets & The Art of Not Being Governed: Legibility vs. Complexity in James C. Scott—w/ Grant Faber

    One of my biggest podcasting regrets is not having been able to interview the anthropologist Dr. James C. Scott before he died in 2024. We had corresponded by email, but he'll forever be one of the ones who got away... Rest in peace, James. Your scholarship is still making people think.

    Today's show serves as an introduction to anthropology, and to some key Scottian concepts like "legibility" that Grant Faber and I apply to the carbon removal and carbon offsetting spaces.

    Why do states prefer straight lines? Why do more organic shapes take place seemingly everywhere else? How can creating legibility be simultaneously great for transparency and order but perilous for justice and truth? When complexity is often so much more accurate, what is it within us that yearns to abandon it? What is in us that desires to make everything legible to our gaze even if it creates a wasteland and calls it peace?

    If that's a soupy theoretical mess for you, you'll probably enjoy this episode. It's a doozy!


    “A language is a dialect with an army and navy."

    — Max Weinreich, attributed


    "[The Romans] create a desert and call it peace."

    — Tacitus

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    Grant Faber's Carbon-Based Commentary on Substack

    James C. Scott's Wikipedia page

    James C. Scott's posthumous In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings

    Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance by James C. Scott

    The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by Jame C. Scott

    "Not 'gay' as in 'happy' but 'queer' as in "f**k you'." is a line I've heard that is maybe informative here.

    "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" by Friedrich Nietzsche

    William of Ockham

    Nominalism

    Michel Foucault

    Jacques Derrida

    Postmodernism

    Hauntologies of carbon removal—w/ Dr. Holly Jean Buck of the University of Buffalo: RCC S3 bonus

    Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

    Edmund Burke

    Thomas Paine

    Zhou Enlai

    Michael Oakeshott, though I wonder if I have potentially overstated his position...

    Precautionary principle

    Br'er rabbit

    Fordism

    Sloanism

    333: Coproduction & Additionality: How Do We Draw the Line for Carbon Removal?—w/ Grant Faber, Carbon-Based Consulting

    "A primer on additionality and carbon removal" by Grant Faber

    350: Robert Höglund Presents: The Many Perils of Being Catalytic in a Carbon Accounting World

    David Graeber's Wikipedia page

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    1 hr 3 min
  • Will Humanity Pass Through the Great Filter and Become a Permanent Civilization?

    If there are so many inhabitable planets in the universe, why haven't we made contact with other civilizations? One terrifying answer is that very few civilizations are able to create world-altering technology without also killing themselves off in the process.

    This monologue episode introduces the concept of Great Filter Events through the work of Dr. David Grinspoon's outstanding book, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future.

    Go read it, and listen to the shows I've done with David Grinspoon in the past! Links below.


    “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

    ― E. O. Wilson


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    Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future by Dr. David Grinspoon

    47: David Grinspoon, Astrobiologist

    Geology Cage Match: The Sapiezoic vs. the Anthropocene

    S2E15: Are you a wizard or a phophet?—w/ Charles C. Mann

    Gaia hypothesis

    Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

    The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann

    Objectivism and Ayn Rand

    Geologic time scale

    Great Filter

    Fermi paradox

    Drake equation

    Schadenfreude

    Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

    Fallout (franchise)

    Abiogenesis

    Great Oxidation Event

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    29 min
  • Carbon-to-Value's Long-Awaited Vindication—w/ Matt Atwood, Founder & CEO of Aircapture

    A $50M Series A?! In this economy?

    Aircapture recently raised a big round at a time when big raises in climatetech are hard to come by. Their secret? Producing a valuable product better for their customers than what currently exists, and not being dependent upon policy or carbon credits.

    They're doing modular direct air capture in places that otherwise need to buy merchant carbon dioxide from companies that sell gases. Shipping merchant CO2 to the Canary Islands isn't cheap. If modular DAC can provide cheaper and less carbon-intensive CO2, that's surely a win for the climate, the economy, and the learnings that allow us to scale along the way.

    Matt brought his insights about how he built a successful business in carbontech. Folks would be wise to listen up!

    N.B. The photos aren't of actual Aircapture facilities.

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    Aircapture's website

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    A Mighty Wind scene about being retro vs. now-tro

    357: Making Graphite from Carbon Removal for Lithium-Ion Batteries—w/ Makoto Eyre, Founder & CEO of Homeostasis

    Capital efficiency

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    37 min
  • Jon Raymond's excellent new climate fiction novel, God and Sex

    Writing fiction about climate change is notoriously difficult. Some authors have gone for massive ensemble casts to defeat the hyperobject. But what if one zoomed in to smaller, quieter, interpersonal stories?

    Jon Raymond is a screenwriter and novelist whose work I very much enjoy. He is a frequent collaborator of Kelly Reichardt's, on films such as Old Joy, First Cow, Night Moves, and Showing Up. He also adapted James M. Cain's novel, Mildred Pierce, which became an HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslett.

    His novels in particular deal with our place in a world with a changing climate. His previous work, Denial, concerns itself with questions of climate culpability for the individual person with great skill. His new novel, God and Sex, asks poignant questions about the nature of miracles and doubt from within a climate context. We discuss both books at length in this show.

    They're both worth reading. Pick a copy of God and Sex while it is fresh off the presses!

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    Denial⁠

    Bonnie "Prince" Billy

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Adolf Eichmann's trial

    Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt

    Manicheaism

    Jean Valjean

    Go (re)watch The Sixth Sense—it's great.

    Ursula K Le Guin

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    53 min

About Reversing Climate Change

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Reversing Climate Change is a podcast about carbon removal and climatetech that keeps wandering off into literature, history, philosophy, theology, and geopolitics on the theory that the technical and scientific questions stop making much sense without them. Hosted by Ross Kenyon, who did not go past a year of political philosophy PhD coursework and has visibly not let it go.

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