Coming soon: Will climate tech save the planet?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
The climate crisis threatens the future of the planet. But don’t worry, technology will save us. At least that’s the message from startups, innovators and investors. Are they right? In a new season of Tech Tonic FT columnist and climate journalist Pilita Clark discovers the tech scene’s latest moonshot efforts to fight climate change, from sucking carbon straight out of the air to the apparent energy miracle of nuclear fusion. Will these technologies be ready in time, or are they a dangerous waste of money and resource at this most critical moment for our planet?
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Tech Tonic is Presented by Pilita Clark. Edwin Lane is senior producer. Produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco, with original music from Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT's tectonic podcast is back. |
| 0:03.5 | The new series focuses on climate tech and asks tough questions like can technology scale |
| 0:08.4 | up fast enough to make a difference in the fight against climate change? |
| 0:12.4 | As COP27 kicks off, long time FT climate journalist and columnist Polita Clark will take |
| 0:17.5 | a deep dive into the science and challenges we're facing. |
| 0:20.8 | You're going to hear a little bit more about the latest season of tectonic in just a bit. |
| 0:25.1 | We're going to play a quick trailer of it now and then you're going to hear the first |
| 0:28.4 | episode in our feed on Sunday. |
| 0:30.7 | So here we go. |
| 0:32.6 | Can climate tech save the planet? |
| 0:35.3 | When people hear it for the first time, it sounds pretty sci-fi, but we need big solutions |
| 0:39.2 | to get us out of this mess. |
| 0:41.3 | Billions of dollars are being invested in new, green, clean technology, like sucking carbon |
| 0:46.4 | dioxide straight out of the air that we breathe, net zero supersonic jets, even mimicking |
| 0:52.4 | the power of the sun on Earth. |
| 0:54.1 | That's a big one. |
| 0:55.1 | It's a big dream. |
| 0:56.1 | It's basically to really become the power source of the future, right? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Polita Clark, a columnist at the Financial Times, and in a new series of tectonic, I'm |
| 1:05.5 | asking, will any of this technology actually solve our climate change problem? |
| 1:10.8 | Or is it all a dangerous distraction? |
| 1:13.2 | We don't have time to wait for a miracle technology. |
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