Gradient Proof Podcast Episode 5 - Rethinking Climate Change with Douglas Wyatt

Welcome to Gradient Proof. This is Episode 5, part 3 of 3. Topics discussed in this episode are Energy, Culture, Science, Confidence, Human Values, and Innovation. The pieces of information gathered from research data help us decide on the actions we, humans as a whole, need to take. We need to look at our values and know our perceptions to choose which future of our planet we would like to see. So today, we will discuss how critical it is for humans to have confidence and trust in science and take action based on scientific research and findings. As always, we encourage you to drink with us. Welcome to the Gradient.

HASHTAGS: #Energy #ScientificResearch #Climatechange #Environment #Science #ScienceEducation #ScienceConfidence #TakeAction

In this Episode:
[00:00] Global Scale Energy Policy
[03:49] Innovation
[05:02] Reactionary Approach
[10:29] Global Adaption
[14:18] Developing Solutions
[22:04] Cultural standpoint
[28:19] Focus on Long-term planning
[39:36] Infinite Possibilities

Whiskey:
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Bios

Douglas Wyatt is an electrical engineer and attorney in New York City who manages his private practice focusing on intellectual property law. He enjoys the outdoors, writing, and assisting high-tech startups and not-for-profits in his spare time. He also serves on the Board of the Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research and has been a member since 1999. On his desk, he is reading “Why We Disagree about Climate Change” by Mike Hulme and “The Honest Broker” by Roger A. Pielke Jr.

Roy Peer is an architect turned entrepreneur. After working for award-winning architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York City, he started a virtual reality company, which later sold to a notable Hollywood director in 2018. Peer is the founder of PeerBasics, a data-driven products company that analyzes e-commerce sales data to drive its product launch decisions in multiple categories with multiple factory partners in Asia. Peer is the author of Simulation Arcade, a sci-fi novel that paints a possible future world where AI and brain chips are commonplace, and it details how humanity meets its AI cocoon moment and how to stop it.

Steven W Sorensen is the director of corporate finance at droppGroup / droppLabs, a web3 video & mixed reality shop attainment marketplace, co-founder of Fotin Media, and a board director of RocketStar, a small satellite launch company. Steven calls NYC home, has lived in China for seven years and has an MA and M.Phil in English from The University of Hong Kong. He likes jazz piano and good whiskey.

Quotes:

Approaching Existential Issues
[00:27]
What is best? What is right? What is good? That is a complicated question; it always depends on a person’s values and how you value the things closest to your heart.
[03:55]
Why did they not take a stance to develop something like Tesla? Why did it have to be an outside player who comes in and changes the entire industry? Because you’ve seen very quickly after the change, all the remaining players change because it’s been proven out somewhere else.
[09:13]
If we start thinking about long-term policies that we can all agree upon, that will help drive the shorter-term policy.
[12:24]
If we had greater confidence in some of the underlying issues and had 99% confidence that we have a discernible influence on climate, then we’d have the second and the most important question: what to do.
Developing Quality Products and Trust
[14:19]
To have a solution, you need to know first the why and what we should be doing.
[19:22]
Necessity is the mother of invention; if there’s a demand for something, an entrepreneur will come up, and they’ll provide that.
Evolution
[28:33]
Economies should consider long-term changes to themselves as short-term goals create more significant risks to long-term objectives or long-term values.
[34:41]
We should be concerned about stability as a promotion of the ability to be happy because, without stability, you will not be able to choose that sort of bandwidth of displeasure.

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