Applying the Pandemic Mindset to Climate Change with Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow, award winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how we can harness massive collective action and exponential technologies to mitigate climate change.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (afp-444457-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
Cory Doctorow, award winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to examine how the pandemic mindset around harnessing massive collective action and exponential technologies for the good of humanity could also help us mitigate climate change.
They also discuss:
- How Covid-19 exposed the need to reset the relationship between market and state.
- Why the predicted 20-30 percent unemployment rate will force dramatic government action in 2021.
Further resources:
- What can climate tech do for us? (Exponential View 2020)
- Cory Doctorow: Full Employment (Locus Magazine 2020)
- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020)
@doctorow
@azeem
@ExponentialView
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.