# Welcome to Carbon Cowboys Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/drilled-860945/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/drilled-860945/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys.md Podcast: [Drilled](https://stenobird.com/podcast/drilled-860945) Published: 2026-05-05T04:01:00+00:00 Episode link: https://omny.fm/shows/drilled/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys Audio file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/pdrl.fm/3e5572/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/9a7ab5ee-ce11-48ff-a544-b3ec00ea9b1e/b21aefad-096f-4319-a763-b42b0104d17d/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f82f371-6316-4ea6-a108-b3ec00ea9b2d Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/drilled-860945/episodes/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys Duration seconds: 261 ## Resource For decades we’ve heard that “the markets” will solve the climate crisis. On Drilled: Carbon Cowboys, we put that theory to the test, following Bruce Rastetter, a corn ethanol kingpin-turned-carbon entrepreneur from Iowa to Brazil, and asking the big questions: Are these “climate solutions” actually reducing emissions? Is CO2 increasing or decreasing as carbon becomes a commodity? Or is green colonialism just as extractive as the regular sort? Drilled: Carbon Cowboys begins on May 12th. Pushkin+ subscribers can hear episodes early and ad-free. Find Pushkin+ on the Drilled show page on Apple Podcasts or at  pushkin.fm/plus .    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/drilled-860945/episodes/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/drilled-860945/welcome-to-carbon-cowboys.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.