Rapid Response: How to decarbonize your business, w/John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
“Go for the megatons.” That’s John Doerr’s recommendation for how we need to combat the existential threat of climate change. Doerr, a venture capitalist and author of the new book Speed and Scale, joins host Bob Safian to discuss our decarbonization efforts, what he calls “the greatest economic opportunity of the next century.” The book quantifies the specific societal needs, in six discrete areas, to achieve a carbon-neutral world. John isn’t arguing that we all need to be vegan ascetics, but rather, the need for collective action – and the critical role that business plays in advancing that movement.
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| 0:57.5 | smarter business. IBM. Hi everybody. It's Bob. The surge in energy prices this year has been |
| 1:05.0 | hard to ignore. Some argue that we need to ramp up fossil fuel production to meet near-term needs and reduce inflation. |
| 1:12.5 | Others say this moment proves the danger of relying on fossil fuels that we need to redouble |
| 1:18.1 | efforts on renewable sources. Climate emergency discussions are now underway at the White |
| 1:23.1 | House while record-setting temperatures or claiming lives across Europe. I spoke earlier this year with |
| 1:29.2 | legendary investor John Doer, a venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins, about his new book Speed and Scale, |
| 1:35.3 | which provides a framework for considering these issues. John's voice and message are compelling |
| 1:41.0 | about the risks of climate change, as well as the opportunities for businesses |
| 1:45.3 | that embrace a new reality. We're re-releasing the episode now as a reminder and a roadmap for |
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| 1:56.8 | What we are doing is not enough, and it's not happening fast enough. There's a revolution underway, |
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