Ep. 145: Andrew Revkin on What to Do About Climate Risk 

Andrew Revkin is one of America’s most honoured and experienced environmental journalists and the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.  He’s written on climate change for more than 35 years, reporting from the North Pole to the White House, the Amazon rain forest to the Vatican – mostly for The New York Times. He has held positions at National Geographic and Discover Magazine. He’s written books on the dawn of Earth’s Anthropocene age, the history of humanity’s relationship with weather and climate, the changing Arctic, global warming and the assault on the Amazon rain forest. His work has been turned into film including the triple-Golden-Globe-winning HBO film “The Burning Season,”. This week’s podcast covers: 

• What Andy learned living on a boat 
• How views have changed on the environment and climate change 
• What does science say about climate change 
• How the media exaggerates 
• Comparing European and US responses to climate change 
• Thoughts on nuclear energy 
• Opportunities around renewable energy transcend political biases 
• Limiting fossil fuels and its impact on poor countries 
• Reframing climate change as climate risk 
• The case of Bangladesh and floods 
• Why climate treaties fail 
• How indigenous people protect the environment 
• Idea for fund 
• Electrification 
• The state of media reporting on climate change 
• Avoid being captured by narratives 

• Authors and books mentioned: So Human An Animal (Dubos),  Paths to Net Zero (Jenkins), Breakthrough Institute, The Death of Environmentalism, The Rational Optimist (Ridley), The End of Nature (McKibben), Johan Rockstrom 

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