Welcome to Carbon Cowboys

About this episode

The episode explores the effectiveness of market-driven climate solutions through the story of Bruce Rastetter, a corn ethanol entrepreneur turned carbon entrepreneur.

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.

Topics covered

• climate crisis
• carbon entrepreneurship
• green colonialism
• emissions reduction
• corn ethanol

Keywords

• climate solutions
• carbon commodity
• emissions
• green colonialism
• corn ethanol

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pushkin Industries

Places: Iowa, Brazil

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