All Episodes

Bad Idea #63 “Glaciers Are Forever” with Lonnie Thompson

Bad Idea #62 “Killing bluefin tuna” with George Monbiot

Bad Idea #61 “4 billion dead” with Roger Hallam

Bad Idea #60 “Trees are our only carbon offset”

Bad Idea #59 “Climate stabilisation is a moral hazard”

What's coming up in Season 4

Bad Idea #58 “Environmentalists Are All the Same” with George Monbiot

Bad Idea #57 “Hands off Mother Earth” with Anni Pokela

Bad Idea #56 "Just leave it to the market" with Tom Crowther

Bad Idea #55 "Life's only about competition" with Rowan Hooper

Bad Idea #54 "Shut down the cobalt mines" with Nicholas Niarchos

Bad Idea #53 "History shows nuclear war will never happen.” with David Holloway

Bad Idea #52 "Attenborough’s films ignore human impacts” with Colin Butfield

Bad Idea #51 "plenty of krill in the ocean" with Claire Christian

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