Episode 81

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why the global climate movement must ditch any semblance of defeatism, ignore the bad-faith calls to "just adapt," and push climate diplomacy to focus on the only two levers that physically move the thermostat: electrifying everything and stopping de ...  Show more

The haze currently (and regularly) choking Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Indonesia is not weather, it's a business model. Drained peat swamps are worth more torched than wet, and 9 out of 10 people killed by the smoke are Indonesians. In this episode, The Angry Clean Energy Guy sh ...  Show more

Much of our modern world is made of plastic, but as more signs point to its dangers to human health, what can we even do about it? Guest: Annie Lowrey, Atlantic writer and author of I fought plastic. Plastic won. For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠ ...  Show more

From climate change to smoking and cancer, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured.In this episode we take you to an oil company’s boardroom as they plan their response to the ‘crisis mentality’ that was emerging after the long hot summer of 1988. 5,000 people died i ...  Show more

On today’s show we are talking about what is happening in the world of energy. There are so many moving parts right now that it’s hard to make sense of what is going to happen to energy prices, and oil prices in particular.