You've Been Warmed

Ben Franta joins the show to discuss the history of fossil fuel propaganda, the parallels to the tobacco industry, the lawsuits that are emerging against them right now and how these companies infiltrate the media.

Lubomila Jordanova joins me for an extensive discussion about how Plan A uses analytics & data to help companies reduce & offset their emissions, the lack of education that most people & stakeholders have regarding climate change & her macro view of the issue and how to solve it.

Hampus Jakobsson joined the podcast to discuss why climate change investing is currently an underserved industry, how he thinks about climate startup investments & how each of us can make an impact individually based on our particular situations & skill-sets.

Dave Jones of European climate change think tank Sandbag joins the show to discuss the past 4 years of European policy targeting coal phase-out. We discuss why the UK is leading the effort, what the general situation in Europe is, why Germany is lagging behind & what this all means for our ability to reach the targets set in the Paris Agreement.

Nori CEO - Paul Gambill - joins the pod to discuss how his company has built a blockchain-powered carbon removal marketplace which addresses a lot of the current issues around carbon offsets & enables companies and individuals to purchase actual unique tonnes of CO2 that have been provably removed from the atmosphere.

DroneSeed CEO (Grant Canary) & CTO (Ben Reilly) discuss how their company handles post-wildfire reforestation projects 6x faster than human tree-planters while covering much larger surfaces (up to 40 acres per day). We also discuss reforestation globally and whether our current efforts can help reverse climate change.

Builddie Co-founder & CEO - Nana Wilberforce - discusses why smart buildings are a must in the fight against climate change, how we can communicate the issues to people across the political spectrum and how Builddie and other smart home solutions can help deliver cost savings to everyday consumers by making their homes more energy-efficient, whilst keeping the same level of comfort.

On my climate journey I was struck initially by how passionately some people were denying the fact that climate change was real and 100% caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, I have developed tools & arguments that I have used to both understand the science better, but also be able to debate climate change deniers.

You're most likely not going to be able to change their mind, even though any rational person that listens to facts cannot come to a different conclusion. However, I do believe debates are important, especially when they take place in public forums, because the people who are watching those debates are the ones that will be convinced and walk away with a greater sense of urgency regarding the climate crisis.

In this first episode I wanted to give a brief overview of how I started to become obsessed by climate change, what I have learned while researching it so far & what my stance is on a variety of aspects surrounding how to tackle it.

The talk extends to a lot of different areas including climate change denial, the intersection of politics, big business, society & economics, the psychological biases that we each have and how that influences our ability to perceive climate change as a threat and more.