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Does the technology to stop the worst of climate change already exist?

And if it doesn't, can we afford to wait for it?

Climate One Conversations feature energy companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats,

the exciting and the scary aspects of the climate challenge. I'm Greg Dalton.

Technology has helped the world survive, thrive, and stay connected through the COVID pandemic.

But does tech hold the same promise in the fight to solve climate change?

It's not very clear to me that with the technologies that we have today, we can move into a world where 9, 10 billion people are living middle or upper middle class lives.

And we're still keeping emissions at a level that are sustainable.

Valerie Shen is chief operating officer at the venture capital firm G2VP.

She'll join us later in the program, along with Michael Wilshire, head of strategy at Bloomberg NEF.

First, a techie's view on climate tech.

The robots we have today are fat, they're blind, they're stupid, and they're insensitive.

Saul Griffith is founder and chief scientist of other lab, an independent R&D lab and co-author of a new report on rewiring America.

His book Electrify is due out in the fall of 2021.

We begin by thinking about whether the narrative of the

past 50 years of increasing efficiency and reducing consumption has been effective in addressing

the climate challenge. It has not been a narrative that politically works terribly well and

hasn't really changed our behaviors enormously. We still, in fact, average American homes have grown in size, vehicles have grown in size.

So although the technology did make them more efficient, a lot of those efficiency wins we

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