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Where did the 2-degree limit come from? Why does nuclear energy deserve a comeback?

In this episode, Steven Koonin discusses why it is “fundamentally immoral” for developed countries to dictate the climate agenda of developing nations, why electric vehicles are not a silver bullet, and how rushing to decarbonize could deepen global inequality.

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About the guest:
Steven E. Koonin is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a University Professor at NYU. He is also a former Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy and Chief Scientist at BP. His work focuses on climate science and energy, and his bestselling book “Unsettled” (2021) calls for more transparency in climate discourse.

About the host:
Gita is an Indonesian entrepreneur and educator. He is the founding partner of Ikhlas Capital and the chairman of Ancora Group. Currently, he is teaching at Stanford as a visiting scholar with Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy; and a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

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Chapters
0:00:00 - Intro
0:02:21 - Early interest in science
0:04:05 - What hooked him into Physics
0:05:08 - Taught by Richard Feynman
0:05:45 - Early academic career
0:08:50 - Parents’ role
0:11:04 - Caltech’s scientific ethos
0:14:10 - Climate misinformation
0:22:20 - Why should we decarbonize slowly
0:34:25 - Nuclear
0:44:15 - Energy-thirsty AI
0:51:30 - 2050 is unrealistic
0:59:45 - Trade-offs of the cheapest alternatives
1:12:00 - EV
1:13:00 - Oil
1:16:40 - Hope for non-linearity
1:23:30 - Education: The game-changers