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The Good Fight

Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro explore what’s holding environmentalists back. Quico Toro is Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, a contributing editor at Persuasion, and writes the Substack One Percent Brighter. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Quico Toro discuss outdated ideas within environmentalism, why we need to decarbonize—and how technology can save us. Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's just a wrong conversation. It's a distraction from what we actually need to be concentrating on,

0:37.0

which are other techniques

0:39.0

to make the climate safe for people and safe for future generations.

0:44.1

And that's going to go through directly cooling the planet, but also through drawing down

0:49.4

emissions that are already in the atmosphere now, something that we don't talk too much

0:54.0

about, but it is possible.

0:56.2

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

1:05.2

With our politics going increasingly crazy and haywire in this moment,

1:10.1

it's easy to lose track of some of the broader

1:12.2

structural challenges humanity faces, challenges like climate change. We are continuing to emit a lot of

1:19.5

carbon into the air. It doesn't look like we're going to have a big global agreement to cut down

1:24.5

on carbon emissions anytime soon. And even if we did, that would come

1:27.9

at the cost of much needed economic development for some of poorer nations in the world.

1:34.1

So what are we to do? To discuss this question I invited back, Kiko Toro, a good friend,

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