Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it. You can read more about Johannes' work at http://founderspledge.com/climate

Timestamps:
00:00 Johannes's journey as an environmentalist
13:21 The drivers of climate change
23:00 Oil, coal, and gas
38:05 Solar, wind, and hydro
49:34 Nuclear energy
57:03 Geothermal energy
1:00:41 Most promising technologies
1:05:40 Government subsidies
1:13:28 Carbon taxation
1:17:10 Planting trees
1:21:53 Influencing government policy
1:26:39 Different climate scenarios
1:34:49 Economic growth and emissions
1:37:23 Social stability

References:
Emissions by sector: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-...
Energy density of different energy sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Emissions forecasts: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitu... and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Risk management:    • Structure of climate risk on high imp...  
Carbon pricing: https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-...
Why not simply plant trees?: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-m...
Deforestation: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Decoupling of economic growth and emissions: https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/c...
Premature deaths from air pollution: https://www.unep.org/interactives/air...