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Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival

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Climate One

News Commentary, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, News

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET, the New York Times, and the public radio program Marketplace, Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis as an engineering problem requiring an acceleration of investment. And so, after producing the acclaimed climate podcast “How We Survive” for Marketplace, she recently left that program to begin a new career in venture capital. Now, in conversation with Climate One Host Greg Dalton, Molly Wood explores the limits of media in changing human behavior and the role of capital in addressing the climate crisis, even while considering that capitalism itself may be incompatible with survival.  Guests: Molly Wood, Investor, Podcaster For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.8

Hoka, together we fly higher. Find out more at hoker.com.

0:30.5

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton.

0:33.7

Reporter Molly Wood has covered economics, money, and tech for years.

0:38.1

Her latest project focused on climate survival.

0:41.2

There is this sense that climate coverage is like vegetables.

0:44.0

It's the kind of bummer thing that you have to put on the plate.

0:47.1

And audiences don't respond to it.

0:48.7

That's a big reason why it took me so long to start doing climate coverage in earnest because

0:53.1

people thought no one was going to listen.

0:54.8

Now she's moved out of journalism and into venture capital, where she sees greater potential

0:59.7

for climate solutions through focused investments. I spent six years on a business show,

1:05.9

and I think economics really matters. In no way do I think we need to get rid of every other solution, but capitalism

1:13.3

is a very effective global solution for making huge change, good or ill.

1:20.3

Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival. Up next on Climate One.

1:34.8

After a 20-year career as a tech reporter for CNET in the public radio program Marketplace,

1:37.6

Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis

1:39.7

as an engineering problem requiring a lot more investment.

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