IL24: Our Chance to Build a Sustainable Future ft. Hannah Ritchie
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talk to Dr. Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor and Lead Researcher at Our World In Data and author of the Not The End of the World, How We Can Be The First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. Dr. Ritchie talks about her personal journey from a climate pessimist ready to switch careers to a data scientist explaining why the world can transition to a sustainable future. We discuss how China and India are becoming greener at a much faster rate than western countries did as they developed. We also talk about why electrification is so important and the role for nuclear and gas power in that process. She explains why food systems play an important role in emissions and the surprising list of individual actions that help - and also hurt - the environment.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:22 - Introduction to Hannah Ritchie
09:17 - How does Hannah describe herself and her work?
10:56 - How has global CO2 emission developed?
16:01 - How is China managing their intermittency problem?
19:10 - How does nuclear play a role for our future?
21:53 - Natural gas - a perfect bridge?
23:35 - Are EVs a viable solution for transportation?
26:55 - Addressing the criticism of EVs
30:31 - Why does a plant based diet have such a big environmental impact?
34:05 - Why organic farming methods and local meat isn't really sustainable
37:59 - Why is Ritchie skeptical about vertical farming?
40:50 - Can plastic be positive for the environment?
43:16 - Managing the plastic waste
47:27 - Importing and export plastic waste
49:38 - How to be an optimal data scientist
56:11 - Key takeaways from Niels
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at a petrol car, for example, for every dollar of gasoline that you put in it, |
| 0:13.6 | only around 20 cents actually goes towards turning the wheels. The other 80 cents is completely |
| 0:19.4 | wasted as heat, right? You don't get any benefit from |
| 0:21.8 | that whatsoever. When you're powering an electric car is almost the opposite. So for every dollar |
| 0:28.1 | of electricity you use, 80 cents go towards turning the wheels and only 20 cents are lost. |
| 0:36.0 | Now what that means is that to travel the same distance in an electric car, |
| 0:39.3 | you use three to four times less energy than you would in a petrol car. |
| 0:44.3 | So these efficiency gains from electrification are really, really, really massive. |
| 0:48.3 | And I think it's one of the reasons why I think this transition is just at this point inevitable. The time scale is |
| 0:55.9 | always debatable, but I think inevitable because we are just moving towards a much better system. |
| 1:03.5 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their |
| 1:08.5 | experiences, their successes and their failures. Imagine no more. |
| 1:12.6 | Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world, |
| 1:19.6 | so you can take your manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next level. |
| 1:23.6 | Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. |
| 1:28.5 | All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, and past performance |
| 1:33.1 | does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. Also understand that there's |
| 1:38.3 | a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, and you need to request |
| 1:42.9 | and understand the specific risks |
| 1:44.9 | from the investment manager about their product before you make investment decisions. |
| 1:49.3 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Nealz Kostrup Larson. |
| 1:58.6 | For me, the best part of my podcasting journey has been the opportunity to speak to a huge range |
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