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Saving the World From Bad Ideas — 52 episodes
Bad Idea #50 "clean energy is too expensive for Africa" with Daan Walter
Bad Idea #49 "We can stop worrying about the climate" with Zeke Hausfather
Bad Idea #48 "Vaccines are overrated" with Seth Berkley
Bad Idea #47 "Geothermal energy is niche" with Terra Rogers
Bad Idea #46 "Conspiracy Theories" with Calum Matheson
Bad Idea #45 "Eating wildlife is more sustainable’" with Sylvia Earle
Bad Idea #44 "Vegi products are unhealthy’" with Nesli Sözer
Bad Idea #43 "Fishing in the Antarctic" with Matt Savoca, Ted Cheeseman, and Lucia Morillo
Bad Idea #42 "not enough land for renewables" with Tom Heap
Bad Idea #41 "nature is fragile" with Fred Pearce
Bad Idea #40 "the food system is fundamentally broken" with Jan Dutkiewicz
Bad Idea #39 "but that's just a technofix" with Adam Dorr
Bad Idea #38 "Solving energy is enough for solving climate" with Bruce Friedrich
Bad Idea #37 "1.5 degrees" with Kwesi Quagraine and Erle Ellis
Bad Idea #36 "No infinite growth on a finite planet" with Adam Dorr
Bad Idea #35 "THIS is the Future" with David Wallace Wells
Bad Idea #34 “Nuclear? No Thanks!" With Bryony Worthington
Bad Idea #33 "Ultra Processed Foods are killing us’" with Sarah Berry
Bad Idea #32 "We don’t need nuclear" with Julia Pyke
Bad Idea #31 "Climate crisis? It’s China that’s the problem!" with Lauri Myllyvirta
Bad Idea #30 "It can’t happen here" with Susan Stokes
Bad Idea #29 "The Green transition is failing" with Michael Liebreich
Bad Idea #28 “JAWS- aka sharks are dangerous” with Arzucan -Zuzu- Askin
Bad Idea #27 “There’s no hope for humanity” with Dr SJ Beard
Bad Idea #26 “Facts will beat Misinformation” with Professor Sander vanderLinden
Bad Idea #25 "Climate catastrophism" with Ted NordHaus
Bad Idea #24 "We’ll just use Hydrogen!" with Michael Liebreich
Bad Idea #23 "These are the best of times" with Luke Kemp
Bad Idea #22 "Solar can’t power the world" with Bill McKibben
Bad Idea #21 "We can’t solve climate change" with Hannah Ritchie
Saving the world from BAD IDEAS season two is coming!
Bookend episode: looking back at season 1 of Saving The World From Bad Ideas
Bad Idea #19 "greens are anti-science" with Tea Törmänen
Bad Idea #18 "we’re addicted to fossil fuels" with Maarten Boudry
Bad Idea #17 "rewilding VS the people" with Rebecca Wrigley
Bad Idea #16 "let's ditch intensive farming" with Michael Grunwald
SPECIAL: Bad Idea #15 "Just Stop Cooking" with Patricia Nanteza
Bad Idea #14 "increasing disaster costs show extreme weather is getting worse" with Roger Pielke Jr
Bad Idea #13 "The Energiewende" with Noah Rettberg
Bad Idea #12 "There’s nothing down there" with Callum Roberts
Bad Idea #11 "No such thing as planetary boundaries" with Johan Rockström
Bad Idea #10 "Everyone hates nuclear" with Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Bad Idea #9 "Dimming the Sun?!" with Cynthia Scharf
Bad Idea #8 "We need nuclear weapons to stop nuclear war" with Alan Robock
Bad Idea #7 "We Can't co-exist with wolves" with Luigi Boitani
Bad Idea #6 "We can still save the arctic" with Julienne Stroeve
Bad Idea #5 "Progress is inevitable" with George Monbiot
Bad Idea #4 "The global south can skip fossil fuels" with Vijaya Ramachandran
Bad Idea #3 "We shouldn’t even talk about geoengineering!" with Oliver Morton
Bad Idea #1 "No such thing as progress" with Steven Pinker
Bad Idea #2 "Everything is getting worse!" with Hannah Ritchie
Launching Saving The World From Bad Ideas