160. No Doom for Boomers! Mobilizing a Generation with Bill McKibben
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
ESG is in hot water - Is it just simmering or is it spoiling?
When Elon Musk tweets “ESG is a scam” that “has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” and a day later, an HSBC executive says that “climate change isn’t a financial risk that we need to worry about,” and then after that Former Vice President Mike Pence writes an opinion in WSJ that “ESG is elevating left-wing goals over the interests of businesses and their employees”...You start to wonder - What is all this fuss about? And why now?
This week we dig into the future or collapse of ESG as we know it, and is all this attention making ESG better or worse? And later on in the episode Bill McKibben returns to the podcast to talk about his latest venture mobilizing ‘The Greatest Generation’ to take action on Climate Change call Third Act - and his new book, ‘The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. What a title!
And of course, be sure to stick around for an exclusive podcast performance of ‘Leaving Song’ by Max Jury.
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READ: Could Google’s Carbon Emissions Have Effectively Doubled Overnight?
READ: The Carbon Bankroll
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Thanks to our guest this week, Bill McKibben!
Bill McKibben
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NEW: Bill’s New Book - The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon
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Thank you to our musical guest this week, Max Jury!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outragean Optimism, I'm Tom Rific Carnick. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Cristiana Figheres. |
| 0:17.2 | And I'm Paul Bekinson. |
| 0:18.6 | Today we talk about the rise and possibly the fall of environmental, social, governance, |
| 0:24.2 | investing. |
| 0:25.2 | We speak to activists and author Bill McKibben and we have music from Max Jury. |
| 0:29.8 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:45.8 | Right, so we have a topic today that Paul Bekinson is just going to shine in. |
| 0:49.8 | Paul is one of the world leaders in the city. |
| 0:51.8 | Oh no, no. |
| 0:52.8 | Here we go. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm ready to be dazzled. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm a world leader. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm a world leader. |
| 0:57.8 | Coming our way. |
| 0:58.8 | Cascade, Christian. |
| 0:59.8 | We will do our best to keep the man contained. |
| 1:02.8 | Cascade. |
| 1:03.8 | I think we'll draw the line at singing and poetry, but everything else is very welcome, Paul. |
| 1:07.8 | We look forward to benefiting from your experience. |
| 1:09.8 | We're going to talk about a range of things today, but in particular we're going to focus on environmental |
| 1:14.8 | social and governance investing. |
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