Today you will learn from expert guest Kate O'Neill about recycling and resource recapture, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Timestamps:- (00:00) - Intro
- (00:51) - What is recycling & recapture?
- (02:20) - Why would recycling & recapture help to solve climate change?
- (03:54) - Why would recycling & recapture not help to solve climate change?
- (05:44) - Who benefits and who is harmed by this solution?
- (08:23) - How does recycling & recapture work?
- (12:06) - What innovation or policy is needed for this to be an effective solution?
- (15:09) - Recommended resources
- (16:57) - Top skills to learn for solving climate change
- (19:51) - Final recommendations
- (21:56) - Activity
Kate O'Neill is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She has written three books,
Waste Trading Among Rich Nations: Building a New Theory of Environmental Regulation (MIT Press, 2000)
The Environment and International Relations (Cambridge University Press 2009, 2nd edition 2017), and
Waste (Polity Press 2019).
Her book, Waste, was published by Polity Press in Summer 2019. This book is about waste as a globalized resource, though one that comes with magnified risks and governance challenges. It includes cases on China and the global plastic scrap trade, waste work and labor in the global economy, the global political economy of electronic wastes and food waste, and the global circular economy. It was featured on National Public Radio's Fresh Air on September 12, 2019. She has also been interviewed on other local, national, international media outlets, including NPR’s Here and Now and Marketplace, The Economist, and Al Jazeera International.
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