As a cross-interview with Sustainable Planet, Kimberly Weir, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University and co-host of Sustainable Planet talks with Akshat Rathi, award-winning senior reporter for Bloomberg News and the host of Zero, a climate-solutions podcast for Bloomberg Green and author of Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age.

Topics Kimberly & Akshat discuss include:How a misinformed campaign marketing slogan about ‘clean coal’ led Akshat into the year-long pursuit of uncovering the truth about climate technologyWhy economists feel the way to address climate change is to put a price on carbonHow to achieve negative carbon emissions since zero emissions alone isn’t enoughWhy, when it comes to electric cars, you’ve never heard of Wan Gang, though Elon Musk is a household nameWhy the very industries that created lithium-ion batteries, solar cells, and carbon capture and storage are so resistant to employing that technologyHow private capital from billionaires like Bill Gates and anyone with a 401K plan is a key part of pursuing climate technologyThat climate justice is both ethically the right path but also reaps global economic benefitsThe need to shift from ‘shareholder’ to ‘stakeholder’ if we’re going to meet the less-ambitious Paris Conference climate change goals Akshat Rathi on XListen to Part 2 of the interview on Sustainable Planet.The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys.The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices