Zero podcast: Historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz on why energy transitions have never been easy
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This is a podcast episode description for "Zero: The Climate Race" featuring historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, author of "More and More and More." Fressoz argues that the world has never successfully managed an energy transition before and that current renewable energy plans are unrealistic. Despite some interpreting his work as suggesting stopping global warming is impossible, the episode clarifies his actual perspective is more nuanced. The piece is a brief promotional blurb for a 45-minute podcast interview.
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Many have taken his writing to mean that stopping global warming is impossible, however, he tells Akshat Rathi this week on Zero, his view is actually quite different.
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