39. Science! Leadership! Action! with Rainn Wilson, Dr. Gail Whiteman, and David Perry
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week we deviate from the normal episode with 3 of our friends!
First, we meet up with Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute / The Office U.S.) and Dr. Gail Whiteman to talk about @ArcticBasecamp's new campaign, "Speak Science To Power" and how we can give power to scientists and bring science into corporate boardrooms everywhere.
Later on David Perry (Indigo Ag / Terraton Initiative) tells us why carbon shouldn't be vilified and how we can solve the climate crisis by looking right where we're standing.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the podcast is brought to us by our very special sponsor. Who is that called? |
| 0:06.2 | Nesta. Nesta, we're so grateful to Nesta, aren't we? What do they do? |
| 0:10.2 | Do you think they could be in the business of fighting climate change? |
| 0:13.0 | I'm sure they're in the business of fighting climate change. |
| 0:15.0 | I don't think there'd be sponsors of our show if they weren't. |
| 0:17.0 | They probably wouldn't be. |
| 0:18.0 | And do you think that they produce renewable fuels, |
| 0:20.0 | or do you think they invest in circular solutions? |
| 0:23.0 | I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did both. |
| 0:25.0 | Do you think they do? |
| 0:26.0 | That would be very impressive. |
| 0:27.0 | I really genuinely, I do. |
| 0:28.0 | Okay, and which country do you think they're from? |
| 0:30.0 | Well, I think they're from Finland, but I wouldn't be a tall surprise if their products were all around the world. |
| 0:33.6 | They probably do, don't they? |
| 0:35.1 | We're very grateful to them. |
| 0:36.1 | Thank you Nesta, thank you. |
| 0:37.3 | Thank you. Hi everyone it's Tom here just at the top of the episode and I am just taking a moment of your time to remind you that we have a book coming out in just a little bit over a week |
| 0:55.8 | so the 25th of February the future we choose will be available everywhere you can pre-order it now by going to |
| 1:00.8 | global optimism.com. |
| 1:02.8 | And I've been sharing these different quotes from people who have very generously |
| 1:06.8 | provided them to us after they've read the book. |
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