You Can Fight Climate Change at Work!
with Nathan Manuel
Climate risk is getting worse, but many of the solutions are getting cheaper. The bigger challenge may no longer be inventing new technology, but deciding what to deploy, who pays for it, and which tradeoffs are actually worth making.
Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School and author of "Climate Shock" and "Geoengineering: The Gamble," joins Nathan Manuel to unpack the economics behind climate change. They discuss nuclear power, AI data centers, the massive carbon footprint of construction, why the rich are better positioned to adapt, and whether solar geoengineering could ever become a serious option.
At the center of the conversation is a practical question: if we already know much of what to do, what is actually stopping us from doing it?
