1 hr 26 min

Ketan Joshi on technology, climate, politics and culture - GMPOOG - 05 A Rational Fear

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Once a month on A Rational Fear on the podcast feed we present a different kind of show:
Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation is a long form conversation with a climate leader from around the world.
This month Dan Ilic talks with Ketan Joshi is one of Australia's great thinkers on energy, climate change, politics and technology. This is a great wide ranging chat about all those topics.
📝 Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels
🐦 Ketan's most underrated tweet from 2020
📗 Ketan's book: Windfall
Links mentioned in the climate news:
📺 Salla — The Coldest Town in Findland's bid video for the 2034 Olympics: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-bid-salla/salla-coldest-town-in-finland-to-bid-for-2032-summer-games-idUSKBN29V2I8
📺 Brisbane Bid Video for 2038 Winter Olympic Games: https://youtu.be/He0vdIqn_1Y
 
 
 
 
 
TRANSCRIPTION FROM A ROBOT:
 
Unknown Speaker  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the birth of foundation.
Dan Ilic  0:04  Hello, Lynn.
Linh Do  0:05  Hey Dan. Longtime no chat.
Dan Ilic  0:06  I know I know we took a summer break a siesta over summer, but now we are back.
Linh Do  0:11  We are back. 2021 still feels like 2022 not gonna lie still working from home
Dan Ilic  0:17  not 2022 but 2020 as well, is that what you meant by two?
Linh Do  0:22  We actually still in 2021, I had clearly been very optimistic, projecting myself into the future.
Dan Ilic  0:27  Now for those who are new around here. This is the greatest moral podcast of our generation. It's a monthly long form chat with leaders on climate action from around the world. It appears right here on the irrational fear feed and this week. I'm very excited about this conversation. Lin you haven't heard or you haven't heard it yet, but I can't wait for you to hear it. It is with mega energy climate nerd technology brain katan Joshi, and he is like my favourite person about climate and the environment and technology on Twitter. Do you follow him?
Linh Do  0:58  I do follow him. And I recommend people ask me the question of Oh, how should I engage on climate? I'm always like, so this this guy. This is like how do you follow him? Sometimes he tweets about Norway because he lives there now. But like 90% of the type of climate and like good stuff,
Dan Ilic  1:14  that Firstly, I guess we should get the climate news out of the way I'm recording my end of the greatest moral podcast of our generation on gadigal land and the eora nation what whose land are you on?
Linh Do  1:23  Lynn wonderland of the well wandering people of the Kulin nation,
Dan Ilic  1:26  sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's stop the shop.
Unknown Speaker  1:29  Despite global warming. irrational fear is adding a little more hot air with long form discussions with climate leaders. Good.
Unknown Speaker  1:42  This is called Don't be afraid the heat waves and drove greatest mass extinction. We're facing a manmade disaster, podcast, climate criminals.
Unknown Speaker  1:57  ration
Unknown Speaker  1:59  all of this with the global warming and a lot of it's a hoax book, right, a small
Unknown Speaker  2:03  podcast about generation for short, all right,
Dan Ilic  2:08  let's get stuck into the climate news. So the last couple of months, I guess there's been a hell of a lot of it. Let's just do some highlights recently, I reckon. Despite everything, the federal government, you know, supporting gas supporting fossil fuels, it looks like they can't even do that properly. I don't know if you've seen this piece by Reuters is a great scathing opinion piece, basically saying Australia's energy policy is in such disarray. While they are tryi

🤑 CHIP IN TO OUR PATREON https://www.patreon.com/ARationalFear📨 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR EMAIL LIST: http://www.arationalfear.com/ 🎟️ SEE A RATIONAL FEAR AT MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2021/shows/a-rational-fear
Once a month on A Rational Fear on the podcast feed we present a different kind of show:
Greatest Moral Podcast Of Our Generation is a long form conversation with a climate leader from around the world.
This month Dan Ilic talks with Ketan Joshi is one of Australia's great thinkers on energy, climate change, politics and technology. This is a great wide ranging chat about all those topics.
📝 Bitcoin is a mouth hungry for fossil fuels
🐦 Ketan's most underrated tweet from 2020
📗 Ketan's book: Windfall
Links mentioned in the climate news:
📺 Salla — The Coldest Town in Findland's bid video for the 2034 Olympics: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-bid-salla/salla-coldest-town-in-finland-to-bid-for-2032-summer-games-idUSKBN29V2I8
📺 Brisbane Bid Video for 2038 Winter Olympic Games: https://youtu.be/He0vdIqn_1Y
 
 
 
 
 
TRANSCRIPTION FROM A ROBOT:
 
Unknown Speaker  0:00  This podcast is supported in part by the birth of foundation.
Dan Ilic  0:04  Hello, Lynn.
Linh Do  0:05  Hey Dan. Longtime no chat.
Dan Ilic  0:06  I know I know we took a summer break a siesta over summer, but now we are back.
Linh Do  0:11  We are back. 2021 still feels like 2022 not gonna lie still working from home
Dan Ilic  0:17  not 2022 but 2020 as well, is that what you meant by two?
Linh Do  0:22  We actually still in 2021, I had clearly been very optimistic, projecting myself into the future.
Dan Ilic  0:27  Now for those who are new around here. This is the greatest moral podcast of our generation. It's a monthly long form chat with leaders on climate action from around the world. It appears right here on the irrational fear feed and this week. I'm very excited about this conversation. Lin you haven't heard or you haven't heard it yet, but I can't wait for you to hear it. It is with mega energy climate nerd technology brain katan Joshi, and he is like my favourite person about climate and the environment and technology on Twitter. Do you follow him?
Linh Do  0:58  I do follow him. And I recommend people ask me the question of Oh, how should I engage on climate? I'm always like, so this this guy. This is like how do you follow him? Sometimes he tweets about Norway because he lives there now. But like 90% of the type of climate and like good stuff,
Dan Ilic  1:14  that Firstly, I guess we should get the climate news out of the way I'm recording my end of the greatest moral podcast of our generation on gadigal land and the eora nation what whose land are you on?
Linh Do  1:23  Lynn wonderland of the well wandering people of the Kulin nation,
Dan Ilic  1:26  sovereignty was never ceded. We need a treaty. Let's stop the shop.
Unknown Speaker  1:29  Despite global warming. irrational fear is adding a little more hot air with long form discussions with climate leaders. Good.
Unknown Speaker  1:42  This is called Don't be afraid the heat waves and drove greatest mass extinction. We're facing a manmade disaster, podcast, climate criminals.
Unknown Speaker  1:57  ration
Unknown Speaker  1:59  all of this with the global warming and a lot of it's a hoax book, right, a small
Unknown Speaker  2:03  podcast about generation for short, all right,
Dan Ilic  2:08  let's get stuck into the climate news. So the last couple of months, I guess there's been a hell of a lot of it. Let's just do some highlights recently, I reckon. Despite everything, the federal government, you know, supporting gas supporting fossil fuels, it looks like they can't even do that properly. I don't know if you've seen this piece by Reuters is a great scathing opinion piece, basically saying Australia's energy policy is in such disarray. While they are tryi

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