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Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess
Manage episode 441911477 series 3390521
Our guest in this episode is Matt Burgess. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, where he moved this year after six years at the University of Boulder, Colorado. He has specialised in the economics of climate change.
Calum met Matt at a recent event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and knows from their conversations then that Matt has also thought deeply about the impact of social media, the causes of populism, and many other subjects.
Selected follow-ups:
- Matt Burgess at the University of Wyoming
- Guided Civic Revival - Substack of Matt Burgess
- How polarization will destroy itself
- Roger A. Pielke Jr. - Wikipedia
- ‘My Life as a Climate Lukewarmer’ - National Review
- Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - Wikipedia (includes climate scenario SSP5-8.5)
- Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points - Science
- Fat-Tailed Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change (PDF) - explains "The Dismal Theorem"
- Sri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained - Vox
- Solar panel prices have fallen by around 20% every time global capacity doubled - Our World in Data
- Special guest speech by Mark Carney - YouTube
- Younger Dryas - Wikipedia (prehistoric period with rapid climate change)
- Platform policies of Jill Stein, US Green Party leader
- Agrowth – should we better be agnostic about growth? - degrowth
- ‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong - The Conversation
- Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends
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Chapters
1. Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Promoguy Talk Pills (00:08:51)
3. (Cont.) Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:09:25)
4. [Ad] Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson (00:18:35)
5. (Cont.) Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:19:16)
113 episodes
Manage episode 441911477 series 3390521
Our guest in this episode is Matt Burgess. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, where he moved this year after six years at the University of Boulder, Colorado. He has specialised in the economics of climate change.
Calum met Matt at a recent event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and knows from their conversations then that Matt has also thought deeply about the impact of social media, the causes of populism, and many other subjects.
Selected follow-ups:
- Matt Burgess at the University of Wyoming
- Guided Civic Revival - Substack of Matt Burgess
- How polarization will destroy itself
- Roger A. Pielke Jr. - Wikipedia
- ‘My Life as a Climate Lukewarmer’ - National Review
- Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - Wikipedia (includes climate scenario SSP5-8.5)
- Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points - Science
- Fat-Tailed Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change (PDF) - explains "The Dismal Theorem"
- Sri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained - Vox
- Solar panel prices have fallen by around 20% every time global capacity doubled - Our World in Data
- Special guest speech by Mark Carney - YouTube
- Younger Dryas - Wikipedia (prehistoric period with rapid climate change)
- Platform policies of Jill Stein, US Green Party leader
- Agrowth – should we better be agnostic about growth? - degrowth
- ‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong - The Conversation
- Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends
Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama...
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson
Discover how technology is reshaping our lives and livelihoods.
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
Chapters
1. Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:00:00)
2. [Ad] Promoguy Talk Pills (00:08:51)
3. (Cont.) Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:09:25)
4. [Ad] Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson (00:18:35)
5. (Cont.) Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess (00:19:16)
113 episodes
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