REWIND: Molly Wood on Tech, Money and Survival
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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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, |
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| 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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