216. Drilled, Baby, Drilled!
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week on O+O, our hosts, Christiana, Tom and Paul delve into the latest International Energy Agency report which sounds the death knell on the fossil fuel era and welcome award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt onto the show.
With the IEA’s publication of their World Energy Outlook report, Christiana, Tom and Paul assess what this means for the fossil fuel industry, national governments and the companies continuing to push the exponential growth of the renewable energy markets. The IEA report still offers us an opportunity, a very, very slim opportunity to act unitedly and decisively to keep within our global targets - can we heed this advice before the door finally closes on this opportunity?
We’re extremely excited to welcome Amy Westervelt as our guest this week. Amy is an award-winning investigative print and audio journalist, loved by our team for her true crime climate podcast Drilled. Join us as she shares her journey to launching Drilled and Critical Frequency, her podcast production company, and why she’s dedicating her time to unearth the nefarious actions of a few PR firms that enable incumbents to keep a stake in the climate crisis narrative.
Music this week comes from Nick Nuttall and his debut album, Just Because Some Bad Wind Blows, which draws on rich life experiences between his eccentric upbringing in the North of England, to his nearly two decades of work at the UN fighting the climate and environmental crises across the globe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism, I'm Tom Ravikkarnak. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Cristiana Pigueras. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm Paul Degunson. |
| 0:18.4 | This week we discuss the recent report from the International Energy Agency on the Net |
| 0:22.4 | Zero Roadmap, a global pathway to keep the 1.5-degree goal in reach. |
| 0:27.4 | We speak to legendary podcaster Amy Westerville and we have music from Nick Nuttle. |
| 0:32.1 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:46.9 | Nick Nuttle. |
| 0:48.5 | Nick Nuttle, we've got to kick off with that. |
| 0:51.3 | Good idea. |
| 0:52.3 | This is Nick Nuttle, like Nick Nuttle, from like the UNFCC and for we don't have time. |
| 0:57.5 | And he's also making music. |
| 0:58.6 | I mean, wow. |
| 0:59.8 | We will come to Nick later in the episode, but yes, we should start off many of that. |
| 1:03.3 | Nick, Cristiana, Nick was your director of communications for the Paris negotiations. |
| 1:07.3 | Why don't we start with Nick? |
| 1:08.5 | Let's start with Nick. |
| 1:10.3 | Well, what everybody has to know is that Nick, he'll probably kill us for revealing this. |
| 1:18.3 | But Nick, I don't know if he has actually gotten better by now, |
| 1:22.6 | but whenever I walked into Nick's office in Bonn, |
| 1:26.8 | it was hard to get to his desk because the floor was strewn with empty coke bottles. |
| 1:37.7 | And he is just completely or was, maybe under stress, completely addicted. |
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