Podcast Episodes

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

Season 1 Episode 365

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 Cervante…

Published on 12 hours ago

364: Lowering the Onion into Hell: Strategic Realism vs. Christian Pacifism

Season 1 Episode 364

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 pet…

Published on 1 week ago

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

Season 1 Episode 363

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 o…

Published on 2 weeks ago

362: Will Humanity Pass Through the Great Filter and Become a Permanent Civilization?

Season 1 Episode 362

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 …

Published on 3 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 361

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 cust…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

360: Jon Raymond's excellent new climate fiction novel, God and Sex

Season 1 Episode 360

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, interpersona…

Published on 1 month ago

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

Season 1 Episode 359

Many hardtech entrepreneurs develop a technology and then figure out how to commercialize it. What happens if you find an industry with potential and then engineer a solution to open an entirely new …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

358: A Beginner's Mind for this Bizarre Moment in Carbon Removal—w/ Marian Krueger, Coauthor of Race to Zero: How Companies Can Lead the Way to Climate Neutrality

Season 1 Episode 358

When you finish painting the Golden Gate Bridge, it is time to paint the Golden Gate Bridge. With a subject as interdisciplinary as carbon dioxide removal, a beginner's mind can also be a great asset…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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

Season 1 Episode 357

We primarily talk about pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ocean and storing it. But there are some places where we should actually be using it productively. Is graphite for lithium-ion…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

356: The World's First International Transfer of Carbon Removals Between Countries Under the Paris Agreement—w/ Victoria Harvey, CDR Strategy Lead at ClimeFi

Season 1 Episode 356

When you think of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, you probably aren't thinking about carbon removal. But should you be?

Today's guest is Victoria Harvey, CDR Strategy Lead at ClimeFi. ClimeFi just s…

Published on 2 months ago