{"podcast":{"title":"Climate Unf*cked","slug":"climate-unf-cked-7472327","podcast_index_feed_id":7472327,"rss_url":"https://rss2.flightcast.com/lbeurq2i875wpkallledk2bc.xml","website_url":"https://climateunfucked.substack.com/","image_url":"https://files.flightcast.com/workspaces/tul1jcrdv3g1oi26vmgk7qv6/01KQ7D8RDXM73Y70W3WEVZ43F7/now_cu_1x1.jpg","author":"Rob Cooper","episode_count":21,"summary":"\"How can we unf*ck our climate and planet\" is what I'm asking leaders, decision-makers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy-makers and doers taking action for our climate and planet.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-unf-cked-7472327"},"episode":{"title":"Mike Berners-Lee: The Climate Lies You’ve Been Sold","slug":"mike-berners-lee-the-climate-lies-you-ve-been-sold","published_at":"2025-12-08T14:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-unf-cked-7472327/mike-berners-lee-the-climate-lies-you-ve-been-sold","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-unf-cked-7472327","url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01KBZ5Y1QQGESBPJFTWCQYG39C.mp3","audio_url":"https://episode.flightcast.com/01KBZ5Y1QQGESBPJFTWCQYG39C.mp3","summary":"Professor Mike Berners-Lee is the internationally renowned bestselling author of How Bad Are Bananas?, The Burning Question (co-authored with Duncan Clark), There Is No Planet B, and most recently A Climate of Truth. He's a professor at Lancaster University and works on carbon footprinting through his company Small World Consulting, which has worked with companies like BT, Microsoft, and all 15 UK national parks. A couple of weeks ago, Mike chaired the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Hall to hundreds of political, business, faith, culture and media leaders. In this episode, we dive into: Why the \"energy transition\" is actually an \"energy addition\" - we've grown renewable energy by 2.5x since the first COP, but fossil fuel use has grown 60% in the same period The three things actually needed for energy transition: grow renewables, constrain fossil fuel supply through carbon pricing, AND reduce total global energy demand Why individual carbon footprints don't directly cut global emissions (it's like squeezing a balloon - it pops out elsewhere) - but why they still matter for creating ripple effects and cultural change The psychology of climate denial - from grief transition curves to \"disavowal\" (when you understand the evidence but live as if you don't) - and how to move past protective mechanisms Why carbon accounting is broken - most companies use random system boundaries that make numbers incomparable, and why we need to count everything in supply chains once and once only The dishonesty crisis: how a \"broken trinity\" of politics, media and business is dragging each other down instead of raising the game - and why we need a \"me too moment\" for political deceit Media ownership matters - who owns what you read, their track record, and how subtle influence sh…","meta_description":"Professor Mike Berners-Lee is the internationally renowned bestselling author of How Bad Are Bananas?, The Burning Question (co-authored with Duncan Clark…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4066,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/climate-unf-cked-7472327/episodes/mike-berners-lee-the-climate-lies-you-ve-been-sold/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/climate-unf-cked-7472327/mike-berners-lee-the-climate-lies-you-ve-been-sold.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}