No Risk, All Reward
This week, we look beyond the physical infrastructure supporting our lives to the owners taking over that infrastructure: asset managers. Brett Christophers, an author, professor, and economic geographer at Uppsala University in Sweden, joins me to explore the troubling transformation of infrastr...
Brett Christophers on why markets don’t fix climate change (rebroadcast)
00:08 Brett Christophers is an economic geographer at Upsalla University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research. His new book is The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet [originally recorded June 2024]
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47. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency
This week Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Juan Auz to discuss the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency. What is it, how did it come about and what's its significance? (Note: this episode was recorded before the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change was hand...
Here Comes the Sun: Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakout Moment
Sometimes I get to bring you a conversation that really feels like a turning point.
This week, I sat down with Bill McKibben, one of the most respected voices in climate and energy. His new book, Here Comes the Sun (out today! order it here), is different from his earlier work. Bill has long been...
Where does our waste go?
Since the 1980s, Brett Christophers wrote recently in the LRB, ‘firms have made vast amounts of money by sending the rich world’s waste to the global South’ – hazardous waste at first, joined more recently by discarded electronics, clothes and plastics. Literal mountains of our rubbish are accumu...
Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid
Matt and Rudy join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid. We talk about the USSR's and China's attempts at electrification, how a modern grid looks like, the current US grid and its governing authorities, and a discussion on possible futures for electricity.
References: RK's thoughts...
Brokering the ongoing energy transition
In our fraught and ongoing energy transition, the metrics of finance are largely determining how, when, and where the electricity sector transitions to low-carbon energy sources—if at all. Author Conor Harrison (Brokers of Power) draws from case studies including 2021’s Winter Storm Uri and inter...
Episode One - Setting the Scene
April 19th, around four o'clock, outside Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton. jD is about to sit with the whole creative team, with no idea what's coming.
The first preview is three days out. jD bought a ticket for April 22nd thinking it was the premiere. It wasn't (musicals have previews, it turns out ...
