# Venture Capital and the Climate Crisis

**Published by:** [Continuations](https://continuations.com/)
**Published on:** 2019-10-28
**Categories:** climate crisis, venture capital
**URL:** https://continuations.com/venture-capital-and-the-climate-crisis

## Content

A while back I recorded an interview with Jason Jacobs for his podcast series My Climate Journey. Jason did a great job pushing me on a number of different issues which helped clarify my thinkings (thanks, Jason). Today Jason launched the episode and I suggest you go and check it out. I love the Jason publishes a transcript also, so if you prefer reading you can do that also. Here’s a brief excerpt:Jason Jacobs: Well, that’s what’s been happening to me is that I was always concerned about it, but then I was trying to kind of go on. I was building that fitness company, and I wanted to land the plane. Then we landed the plane. Then I took some time, and there’s a lot more fun things that one could be doing than focused on climate change. But yet the more I looked into it, I kept hoping to find, oh, it’s overblown, and it’s under control. We’ve got this, and I can go back to fitness, which I love, or something else [crosstalk 00:08:39] Albert Wenger: It’s sort of the opposite. The more you dig, the more you go, what? That’s not true and that’s not true? Like renewables. I love renewables. I think solar is fantastic. I think wind is interesting. But they’re not going to get us there, and not just get us there. They’re not going to get us there by a wide mile. So suddenly you go, oh, all this solar is great, and we should definitely be doing more of it. If you live in Arizona where the sun shines a lot and you run an AC, you should probably be running that at the hottest hours of the way of solar. So there’s a lot of things we can do, but it’s not going to get us all the way there.

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