Crazy Town

Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement's Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies


Listen Later

Meet Mark Jacobson and David Keith, the leading techno-fixologists who overpromise overhyped “solutions” to the climate conundrum. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.


For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. 


Sources/Links/Notes:

  • The Solutions Project
  • Carbon Engineering
  • David W. Keith et al., "A Process for Capturing CO2 from the Atmosphere," Joule, August 15, 2018.
  • Christopher T. M. Clack et al., "Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar," PNAS, June 19, 2017.
  • Natanael Bolson, P. Prieto, and T. Patzek, "Capacity factors for electrical power generation from renewable and nonrenewable sources," PNAS, December 20, 2022.
  • Simon Michaux's website
  • Richard Heinberg, "Can Civilization Survive? These Studies Might Tell Us," Resilience, December 19, 2022.
  • Average household electricity consumption
  • David Fridley and Richard Heinberg, "Can Climate Change Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline?," Renewable Energy World, June 19, 2018.
  • Mark Jacobson on Late Night with David Letterman
  • James R. Martin, "Energy Transition & the Luxury Economy," Resilience, October 31, 2022.
  • Yamina Saheb, Kai Kuhnhenn, and Juliane Schumacher, "It’s a Very Western Vision of the World," Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.
  • Mark Z. Jacobson et al., "Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy insecurity for 145 countries," Energy & Environmental Science (2022).
  • Nicole Jewell, "Leading Stanford climate scientist builds incredible net zero home, complete with Tesla Powerwall," In Habitat (2017).
  • Raymond Pierrehumbert, "The trouble with geoengineers 'hacking the planet'," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (2017).

Support the show

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Crazy TownBy Post Carbon Institute

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

203 ratings


More shows like Crazy Town

View all
Living on Earth by World Media Foundation

Living on Earth

468 Listeners

Living Planet by DW

Living Planet

143 Listeners

Climate One by Climate One from The Commonwealth Club

Climate One

566 Listeners

For The Wild by For The Wild

For The Wild

1,168 Listeners

Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff

Team Human

379 Listeners

Emergence Magazine Podcast by Emergence Magazine

Emergence Magazine Podcast

511 Listeners

The War on Cars by The War on Cars, LLC

The War on Cars

922 Listeners

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast by Persephonica and Global Optimism

Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast

466 Listeners

The Emerald by Joshua Schrei

The Emerald

1,045 Listeners

Accidental Gods by Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

159 Listeners

Planet: Critical by Rachel Donald

Planet: Critical

91 Listeners

Wild with Sarah Wilson by Sarah Wilson

Wild with Sarah Wilson

81 Listeners

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens by Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

418 Listeners

The Chris Hedges Report by Chris Hedges

The Chris Hedges Report

356 Listeners

Human Nature Odyssey by Alex Leff

Human Nature Odyssey

49 Listeners