Episode 058 — on Climate Change — Part 2 — Carbon, Cooking, and Chemistry

“You can’t produce CO2 without eating plants, and plants can’t grow without CO2. That used to be in balance. Now it’s not.”

Adam J Kerpelman

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Zengineering Podcast

3 min readMay 15, 2018

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Hey Zengineers!

This is our second episode in a series on Climate Change. No one knows how many episodes this series may ultimately contain, but probably a lot! We’ve got loads to share, and we’ve got some killer guests coming up. We also find this topic important, timely, all encompassing, and endlessly interesting. Lots of what we talk about regularly is affected by and affects Climate Change.

Check out our other episodes in this series: Part 1 — What the fuck is Climate Change? … and Climate Change Part 3— The Business of Carbon Capture with Gustav Alstromer of Y Combinator.

Wow! So much fun to be had, and so much important information to share! In this episode, we get into a little of the nitty gritty science. What is happening chemically that is causing global climate change, global warming, droughts, floods, super storms, wildfires, pollution, extinctions and more?

How are all these things possibly even connected? We’ve all heard about the Carbon Cycle of life and that there’s too much CO2 in our atmosphere, but what does that mean? What is it doing, and how’s it doing it? Also, wtf is Carbon and why is it so important? We’ve talked a lot in previous episodes about science, experiments, and experts, and this episode brings a lot of those conversations into practice. How are we supposed to think about the mindbogglingly large science experiment that is our home planet and solar system? There are big forces at play in the global struggle to address the changing chemistry of our world and understanding the science is an extremely important first step that a lot of us are missing. We know we were!!

Enjoy the details and hit us up with any questions, answers, or complaints. We care a lot about this topic and want to know how this all makes you feel and what thoughts it’s provoking! As always, let us know what you like, or dislike on our website https://zengineeringpodcast.com, rate and review Zengineering on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zengineering-podcast/id1063587710?mt=2 , and support Zengineering on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/zengineeringpod.

Cheers,

Adam & Brian