This episode is a uniquely effective overview of carbon removal—an important aspect of climate restoration which is not yet widely-known, despite its urgency. The interview has the added bonus of introducing Gideon Futerman, one of the most well-spoken and inspirational youth leaders I’ve met. At 16, when this audio was recorded, he could stand side-by-side or toe-to-toe with any expert in the climate space when discussing big-picture issues.
Gideon Futerman co-founded Worldward, a UK climate organization, at age 15. During the several years of its existence, the organization sought to build a worldwide movement led by youth and dedicated to climate restoration. Worldward’s guiding principles are the rights to life and a safe and stable climate, evidence-based solutions, and climate justice.
He then was on the core leadership team of UK-based Natural Climate Solutions, founded by George Monbiot, and worked closely with Greta Thunberg.
Now Gideon is an undergraduate student in Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, on a gap year working on the RESILIENCER Project, at which he is the only person working full-time on the interaction of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and its research with existential and global catastrophic risk. Currently, he has, in his words, “4 separate papers on the go alongside colleagues from Cambridge, Oxford, Utrecht and UCL (University College London)…”
Show Resources
Gideon’s Substack.
Natural Climate Solutions, founded by George Monbiot, produced this short video with Greta Thunberg. Gideon was on the core leadership team of this UK-based organization.
Examples of companies doing direct air capture (DAC): Carbon Engineering, Climeworks, and Global Thermostat.
IPCC Special Report (2018), which recognizes the need for large-scale carbon removal to ensure a limit of global warming to 1.5 degrees, if precipitous emissions reduction is not enacted by 2030.
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