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REWIND: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 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 left that program to begin a new career in venture capital. What are the limits of media in changing human behavior? And what is the role of capital in addressing the climate crisis, even while considering that capitalism itself may be incompatible with survival?  Guests: Molly Wood, Climate Solutions Investor, Podcaster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection,

0:05.5

made the way denim should feel. Their denim has always been a staple in my wardrobe and has a wide range of fits,

0:11.4

styles, and washes. Every jean is available in both their classic fit and viral curve love.

0:17.5

Shop in the app, online, and in stores.

0:34.6

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Reporter Molly Wood has covered economics, money, and tech for years. Her latest project focused on climate survival.

0:39.7

There is this sense that climate coverage is like vegetables. It's the kind of bummer thing that

0:43.8

you have to put on the plate. And audiences don't respond to it. That's a big reason why it took me

0:48.6

so long to start doing climate coverage in earnest because people thought no one was going to listen.

0:53.4

Now she's moved out of journalism and into venture capital, where she sees greater potential for climate solutions through focused investments.

1:02.0

I spent six years on a business show, and I think economics really matters.

1:06.0

In no way do I think we need to get rid of every other solution.

1:11.1

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

1:18.6

Molly Wood on tech, money, and survival.

1:21.8

Up next on Climate One.

1:26.2

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

1:33.7

Molly Wood has come to see the climate crisis as an engineering problem requiring a lot more investment.

1:39.7

In one of her last journalism projects, she produced the acclaimed documentary podcast How We Survive

1:45.3

for Marketplace. She left that program to begin a new career and venture capital. This past

1:51.0

September, Molly Wood joined me in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California.

1:56.8

In the final episode of How We Survise first Season, she says that there's one possible future

2:01.8

where we adapt to climate change and avoid the worst impacts.

2:06.2

And there's another possible future where we don't.

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