Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess

Our guest in this episode is Matt Burgess. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, where he moved this year after six years at the University of Boulder, Colorado. He has specialised in the economics of climate change.

Calum met Matt at a recent event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and knows from their conversations then that Matt has also thought deeply about the impact of social media, the causes of populism, and many other subjects.

Selected follow-ups:

• Matt Burgess at the University of Wyoming
• Guided Civic Revival - Substack of Matt Burgess
• How polarization will destroy itself
• Roger A. Pielke Jr. - Wikipedia
• ‘My Life as a Climate Lukewarmer’ - National Review
• Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - Wikipedia (includes climate scenario SSP5-8.5)
• Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points - Science
• Fat-Tailed Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change (PDF) - explains "The Dismal Theorem"
• Sri Lanka’s organic farming disaster, explained - Vox
• Solar panel prices have fallen by around 20% every time global capacity doubled - Our World in Data
• Special guest speech by Mark Carney - YouTube
• Younger Dryas - Wikipedia (prehistoric period with rapid climate change)
• Platform policies of Jill Stein, US Green Party leader
• Agrowth – should we better be agnostic about growth? - degrowth
• ‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong - The Conversation
• Economists' Statement on Carbon Dividends
• Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election? - Nate Silver

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration