Flipping oil to electric. Globalism and Green Politics with Mats Larsson
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Robert talks with Swedish author Mats Larsson about the power consumption we use and how we use it in these Covid-19 times. How can oil power be replaced by electricity, is it viable, reasonable and inevitable?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the fully charged show podcast brought to you |
| 0:28.0 | with delight optimism at hope but also reality facing the real proper difficult |
| 0:35.2 | challenges that lie ahead for the human race on this small blue dot floating |
| 0:41.0 | through space. Today's guest is a remarkable man. He's from Sweden. His name is |
| 0:46.1 | Matt Larson and he has written this book that has completely taken over my |
| 0:49.8 | life. I was actually out for a walk though day with it with me and I started |
| 0:55.3 | reading when I was walking which actually is not a good idea from gentleman |
| 0:57.8 | of my age and he fell over. The book is called The Blind Guardians of |
| 1:01.4 | Ignorance COVID-19 Sustainability and our vulnerable future. A handbook for |
| 1:06.8 | change leaders young and old and it's really about it's a very Swedish look at |
| 1:13.0 | the world but I have a lot of respect for many things that the Swedish people have |
| 1:17.3 | done and Matt's is just a really clever thinker. There's some amazing things |
| 1:25.5 | some of which we talk about in the podcast some of which I can only suggest if |
| 1:30.0 | you are interested at all in following up and reading the book it is a really |
| 1:36.5 | really challenging and interesting book so as I said to Matt's during our |
| 1:41.0 | wonderful conversation that some of my bubbles were burst by his insights and |
| 1:46.6 | his grasp of numbers and of actual challenges but then a lot of other bubbles |
| 1:52.8 | that I know that many of us live in our own little bubbles. Those were burst by |
| 1:56.4 | the dozen so it wasn't. It's a very well balanced book. Matt's is a business |
| 2:02.3 | consultant assisting companies with strategy development and the |
| 2:05.2 | management of change projects and over the last 15 years he has analysed the |
| 2:09.7 | challenges of the future and written extensively on the transformation to |
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