Best Assaad W. Razzouk Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 82 20:47

2h ago20:47

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on two recent, and historic, renewable energy milestones many thought impossible. First, solar, wind and hydro power exceeded 100% of California's electricity demand on an almost daily basis over a sustained period of several weeks. Second, also in California, battery storage became for the first time ever the largest sou…

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Episode 81 23:10

1M ago23:10

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the fraud that is plastic recycling, perpetrated by Big Oil and their enablers; and on the emerging evidence that the health dangers of plastic - obfuscated for 50 years - could be life-threatening , including substantially raised risks of strokes, heart attacks and other nasty invasions of our bodies by Big Oil.…

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Episode 80 44:41

4M ago44:41

44:41

The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Good Climate News Stories of 2023"By Assaad W. Razzouk

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Episode 79 29:34

6M ago29:34

29:34

Disinformation, misinformation, deception and propaganda by Big Oil is rife. The number of oil trolls on my social media feeds - and those of so many other climate activists - has seen a remarkable increase, some collecting 1,000+. The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the "Top 10 Disinformation Tag Lines" peddled by Big Oil trolls and bots, aided and abet…

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Episode 78 27:40

7M ago27:40

27:40

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the need to tackle the fantastic quantities of waste and pollution from the healthcare sector - 5 to 7% of global emissions and 5th largest polluter if we thought of it as a country - and how the doctors, demigods everywhere, are in the process of being nudged to evolve to get to zero-waste and zero-emissions medicine.…

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Episode 77 23:39

7M ago23:39

23:39

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the sheer quantity of drivel we're bring bombarded with about gas, (such as the world needing more affordable energy (read: gas); or how gas is part of a pragmatic approach to the energy transition; or using the words "low-carbon" in the context of energy systems); and how in reality, it's all deliberate propaganda orc…

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Episode 76 12:32

9M ago12:32

12:32

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why our fossil fuel addiction consumes at least 535 times more mining than the renewables economy displacing it - and how we have already all the minerals we need to decisively transition to clean energy lifestyles and economiesBy Assaad W. Razzouk

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Episode 75 19:06

10M ago19:06

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why South East Asia's clean energy future is here already, today: it's all happening, all one needs to see it is to take a quick tour of the behind-the-scenes, massive, renewable energy surge in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand.By Assaad W. Razzouk

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Episode 74 19:16

10M ago19:16

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why we have all the money in the world to pay for climate action right now (and where that money is), so why the hell are we not getting on with it.By Assaad W. Razzouk

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Episode 73 23:13

11M ago23:13

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We need to talk about COP28, the 28th installment of the United Nations Climate Talks, which will take place in Dubai, UAE at the end of this year. For the first time ever, the CEO of an oil company - literally the constituency that must stop all new oil & gas and phase-down existing oil & gas - has been appointed as the President of a COP - litera…

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Episode 72 28:35

11M ago28:35

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy’s third episode in a mini-series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, today featuring the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam (after China was featured in Episode 70 and Indonesia was featured in Episode 71). Here's one factoid from this episode: the Commission on Human Rights of the…

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Episode 71 27:00

1y ago27:00

27:00

The Angry Clean Energy Guy's second episode in a mini-series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, today featuring Indonesia (after China was featured in Episode 70). The next podcasts will feature Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and India. Here are two factoids from this episode: Indonesia's …

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Episode 70 16:33

1y ago16:33

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy's first episode in a series of podcasts showcasing some of the remarkable environmental progress in Asia, starting with China. The next podcasts will feature Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand and India. Here's one factoid from this episode: there were 80,000 environmental lawsuits brought by Chinese prosecutor…

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Episode 69 32:56

1y ago32:56

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The noise from oil trolls, oil bots and Big Oil astroturfing has become deafening. Their aim is to overwhelm the climate movement - and thoroughly confuse the public - by posting vast amounts of misleading information and spreading crazy conspiracy theories as well as general nonsense, in very large volumes. They are a naked attempt at pushing Big …

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Episode 68 25:01

1+ y ago25:01

25:01

The Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Top 10 Positive Climate Actions of 2022"By Assaad W. Razzouk

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Episode 67 23:18

1+ y ago23:18

23:18

The global legal construct around climate change was born in 1992, when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated at the UN Conference on Environment and Development, more commonly known as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro. In this podcast, we take a tour through a short history of UN climate talks (now in their 27th year at w…

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Episode 66 27:06

1+ y ago27:06

27:06

Sustainable aviation fuels are a fraud. Study after study say that no matter how you look at the data, their production will fail to meet aviation needs no matter how much money is thrown at the problem. Not only does the industry have to be created from scratch, creating enough "sustainable" fuels to replace jet fuel by 2050 assumes we can convert…

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Episode 65 34:54

1+ y ago34:54

34:54

Climate optimism is in short supply, so this is a podcast about ten BIG, BIG reasons to be optimistic that we are pushing back against global warming. I put this podcast together because climate anxiety is real: distress related to worries about climate impacts is widespread. We feel powerless in the face of crisis of epic proportion manifesting it…

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Episode 64 27:51

2y ago27:51

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In the midst of a global climate crisis touching everyone and everything, there are new, sophisticated and dangerous forms of greenwashing making the rounds, courtesy of the oil & gas industry and their stooges. The Angry Clean Energy Guy exposes two particularly pernicious ones: oil companies "announcing" renewable energy projects to fund more oil…

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Episode 63 26:30

2y ago26:30

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Many people struggle with climate anxiety - the feeling of distress, uncertainty and loss of control which is a natural reaction to the magnitude of the climate crisis and how apparently little our individual actions matter in fighting it. Climate anxiety highlights the enormous importance of the following question: what can an individual do that w…

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Episode 62 20:47

2y ago20:47

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There is something sordid taking place out there. Over the past few weeks, shareholders – that is, investors, asset management firms, banks and pension funds - blocked proposals to accelerate carbon emission reductions at oil & gas producers including BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum, Shell and TotalEnergies. But, wait:…

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Episode 61 20:12

2y ago20:12

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While India was roasting under a record heatwave; the Amazon was recording record after record of deforestation destruction; dust storms were sending thousands to hospital in Iraq; Ethiopia was facing its worst drought in at least 40 years; and global average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were reaching their highest level on record for …

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Episode 60 25:14

2y ago25:14

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why your "luxury cruise" is just a floating garbage trash can; how the shipping industry in its entirety has gone rogue in terms of climate action, ocean pollution and public health impact; and why the International Maritime Organization needs to be either fundamentally restructured or closed: it's not fit for purpose …

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Episode 59 24:24

2y ago24:24

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the top 5 climate action myths busted by the Ukraine war: the different ways governments and big business had justified, sometime for decades, why they couldn't take this or that climate action, then suddenly took them in days in a different context. And on why we should label “non-sense” anything we read about why we …

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Episode 58 26:46

2y ago26:46

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Greenwashing - drowning consumers with vague or false claims to deceive them into believing that a business' products or image are green - has gone viral: Most businesses are at it, irrespective of their sectors, some more vociferously than others. Here are the Angry Clean Energy Guy's "Greenwashing Top 15:" the Top 15 ways we are being deceived - …

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Episode 57 27:00

2+ y ago27:00

27:00

The Angry Clean Energy Guy on why the blockchain is possibly one of the most powerful tools for citizen climate action, in particular for those angry about how little their governments have been doing for 30 years about climate change. We (citizens!) can leverage its power and potential to drive hundreds of billions more to accelerate the renewable…

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Episode 56 29:15

2+ y ago29:15

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We need to talk about corporate evil: companies knowingly doing harm. In this episode, the Angry Clean Energy Guy features a massive company many around the world don't know about which is overtly trying to greenwash its deeds by using children, while simultaneously – and boldly - trying to fry the planet.…

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Episode 55 22:38

2+ y ago22:38

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on a little known, secretive, stealthy tool undermining climate action, the innocuously called the Energy Charter Treaty, - such an unthreatening name, on a par with "natural" gas or "plastic", don't you think? – threatening to ensure global heating exceeds 2 degrees Celsius by driving tens, or even hundreds, of billions …

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Episode 54 25:31

2+ y ago25:31

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"COP26," the 26th year pretty much all the countries in the world convened in an annual conference to talk about what to do about the climate catastrophe, will result - just like its preceding 25 editions - in talk, then in some more talk. That's because real climate action doesn't happen at these annual climate meetings: It takes place instead els…

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Episode 53 26:06

2+ y ago26:06

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on pretty much everything you really need to know about nuclear energy. That's for example the fact that conventional nuclear energy is not only finished, but has also become a massive distraction in our climate emergency, diverting precious dollars away from sun, wind and water. Or the fact that nuclear fusion is worthy …

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Episode 52 23:22

2+ y ago23:22

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The IPCC released a hugely important scientific report this week. However, in this episode, I would like to talk about biodiversity instead, and in particular, biodiversity loss in the oceans. On climate change, it's crystal clear that what we desperately need is action because the evidence is all around us. However, we rarely talk about action to …

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Episode 51 22:29

3y ago22:29

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I’ve had it with the bashing of bitcoin, the blockchain and crypto miners for their energy usage. This is all, in one word, noise and should be ignored. 250 million people already think bitcoin is useful. In addition, the world consumes approximately 160,000 TWh / year of energy and wastes, along the way, at least one-third. What bitcoin consumes i…

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Episode 50 22:43

3y ago22:43

22:43

This Episode is a slightly longer version of a TEDx Talk I gave at Singapore's National Gallery on 28 April 2021 about ESG. What Bill Gates calls the “Green Premium”, the extra cost we have to pay because most zero-carbon products currently appear more expensive than their fossil-fuel equivalents, doesn’t in fact exist. We only have a “green premiu…

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Episode 49 32:46

3y ago32:46

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on pretty much everything you need to know about ESG, starting with the need to be very suspicious whenever you see an ESG label on an investment product. ESG has become a huge business, with one dollar out of every 3 professionally managed dollars in the US for example labelled “ESG” (and an even greater proportion in Eu…

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Episode 48 35:58

3y ago35:58

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If you want to get elected, requirement number one is to come up with a meaningless tagline while pretending everything is going pear-shaped, e.g. “Take Back Control” or “Make America Great Again.” Adopting tactics from that playbook, today's requirement number one to continue to pollute at will (while everything is actually going pear-shaped) is t…

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Episode 47 25:00

3y ago25:00

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Over the past year, multiple oil and gas companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in planting trees, or threatening to do so, to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. There are, however, several fundamental problems with what they are doing, or probably more accurately, pretending to do. First, most are planting trees to earn carbon…

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Episode 46 25:52

3y ago25:52

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We need to talk about lawyers and about law firms. One of the strongest weapons in the fight to do nothing at all about climate change is the anti-climate-action litigation carried out by most, if not all, of the largest law firms in the world. Law firms, quietly and below the radar, do three big, bad things: By a ratio of 10 to 1, they love to wor…

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Episode 45 27:31

3+ y ago27:31

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With an estimated $30 trillion in assets under management, the insurance industry is a huge (but mostly invisible) force in influencing the direction of the global economy. Yet insurance companies are doing incredibly little to fight climate change - and get away with it: Out of the largest 30 insurers in the world, 29 pretty much do not take the P…

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Episode 44 23:55

3+ y ago23:55

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If you listen to banks and their explanations of they are doing about climate change, you might get the impression that most "get it" and are fighting it shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of humanity. In fact, banks are funding enough carbon-intensive projects and companies to guarantee a 4°C rise or above in global warming, with their eyes wide o…

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Episode 43 20:08

3+ y ago20:08

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"Fresh air" is a myth. In reality, 90% of us (worldwide) are breathing dirty air on a permanent basis. Because we can't see the pollution in our air, we don't tend to think about it enough. But our air is weakening all of us and killing 7 million a year, as well as placing an undue burden on health systems in every country. This has to stop and it …

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Episode 42 28:30

3+ y ago28:30

28:30

The latest, newest attacks against clean energy, namely “Oh my God, what are we going to do with all those solar panels and wind turbines and batteries at the end of their lives” and "Oh my God, what about the mining practices employed to get the materials necessary for clean energy ” are, in one word, bollocks. In Episode 42 of The Angry Clean Ene…

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Episode 41 18:17

3+ y ago18:17

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October, 2020 marked the end of an era: The world’s largest solar and wind power generator, the US utility NextEra, surpassed ExxonMobil - literally the embodiment of Big Oil's recklessness and once the most valuable company on earth - in stock market worth: It took a pandemic to show the markets that the time for clean energy and clean air is righ…

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Episode 40 26:43

3+ y ago26:43

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Indonesia, population 270m and basking in abundant sunshine most of the year while stretched across the Equator, has less installed solar power capacity (198MW) than Finland (215MW), an Arctic country with just 5.5m people. That's one of the reasons South East Asia remains the global laggard on renewable energy while at the same time threatening to…

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Episode 39 21:13

3+ y ago21:13

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I am sharing good news on this podcast: Natural gas is done in 10 years. Certainly in Europe. Give it another 5 years on top and it will also be done in Asia and in the US too. It’s going the same way as coal. Why? In short, because the information fog is lifting after decades of obfuscation: We now know it's about as dirty as coal. Whoever named i…

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Episode 38 25:39

4y ago25:39

25:39

The plastic industry says it’s a "hero" of the coronavirus pandemic. What is driving this propaganda? Single-use plastic is a big chunk of the future demand for oil forecast by OPEC or by the International Energy Agency and their other friends trying to cook the books. So if you take out single-use plastic, future demand for oil and gas will declin…

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Episode 37 21:57

4y ago21:57

21:57

Recently, an open letter from dozens of investors, business leaders, researchers and climate policy advocates accused the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based intergovernmental organization mistakenly labelled as "authoritative", of marginalizing key climate goals in its research. They were being too polite: The IEA is a very dangerous organi…

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Episode 36 23:27

4y ago23:27

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The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the incredible resilience of renewable energy in the midst of a pandemic, and why that means its rise will accelerate further post COVID-19; and on the incredible non-resilience of the airline industry, its irresponsible and reckless mis-management and why the earthquake in its midst means it has already seen its carbo…

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Episode 35 22:12

4y ago22:12

22:12

In our arsenal of anti-virus weapons, a powerful force is emerging. It’s one of the most hygienic alternatives for the prevention of the virus and it’s changing the world before our eyes. This not-so-secret weapon is cheap and promotes cleaner air. It's healthy. It allows us to move about. It contributes powerfully to the fight against climate chan…

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Episode 34 30:23

4y ago30:23

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"If you want a proper adaptation strategy to the Coronavirus, then you must finally properly tackle climate change. There. I said it." In this Episode 34, The Angry Clean Energy Guy describes what the "exit strategy" is for the global Coronavirus lockdown and how this exit strategy is so similar to the one from climate change; and then he describes…

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Episode 33 18:26

4y ago18:26

18:26

Twenty five per cent of the western world could be unemployed by the end of March: COVID19 shows that society failed to provide, to most, secure jobs and pensions, income support, skills training, clean air, clean water and healthy food. We must change the way we work, move, eat and live and do capitalism differently, by focusing on people not corp…

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