{"podcast":{"title":"Zero: The Climate Race","slug":"zero-the-climate-race-5454543","podcast_index_feed_id":5454543,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/37c6caa7-d377-4c08-b479-af9d012ed5ad/a7faefb0-28ec-4b1d-85f3-af9d012ed5c9/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-zero-109889882","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/37c6caa7-d377-4c08-b479-af9d012ed5ad/a7faefb0-28ec-4b1d-85f3-af9d012ed5c9/image.jpg?t=1675362156&size=Large","author":"Bloomberg","episode_count":239,"summary":"Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T14:22:48.701846+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zero-the-climate-race-5454543"},"episode":{"title":"George Saunders goes inside the mind of a climate denier: Imagine series","slug":"george-saunders-goes-inside-the-mind-of-a-climate-denier-imagine-series","published_at":"2026-01-29T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zero-the-climate-race-5454543/george-saunders-goes-inside-the-mind-of-a-climate-denier-imagine-series","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zero-the-climate-race-5454543","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/zero/george-saunders-goes-inside-the-mind-of-a-climate-denier-imagine-series","audio_url":"https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/UVBrz8bN8aM2Xe47PEPu/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/37c6caa7-d377-4c08-b479-af9d012ed5ad/1cff1043-b0d8-49ab-b5ca-b3e000fe5219/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=a7faefb0-28ec-4b1d-85f3-af9d012ed5c9","summary":"What is the best way to tell a climate story? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi speaks with Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders. His new novel Vigil is an exploration of guilt, told on the deathbed of an oil executive haunted by ghosts. Rathi asks Saunders what he learned about climate change, his thoughts on whether AI complements or compromises human creativity, and why literature still matters in the era of TikTok. Explore further: In ‘Vigil,’ George Saunders Asks: Can An Oil CEO Repent? — Bloomberg The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable — Amitav Ghosh Other episodes in the Imagine series: Building Monuments to the End of Oil — Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri Abundance or Adequacy? Search for Better Climate Solutions — Sci-fi bestseller Kim Stanley Robinson Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green . Our producer is Oscar Boyd. Special thanks to Gautam Naik, Sommer Saadi, Mohsis Andam, Sharon Chen and Laura Millan. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"What is the best way to tell a climate story? This week on Zero, Akshat Rathi speaks with Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders. His new novel Vig…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2602,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/zero-the-climate-race-5454543/episodes/george-saunders-goes-inside-the-mind-of-a-climate-denier-imagine-series/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/zero-the-climate-race-5454543/george-saunders-goes-inside-the-mind-of-a-climate-denier-imagine-series.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}