Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2025-07-19
Books mentioned on 162. Will We Solve the Climate Problem?
Kate Marvel spends her days playing with climate models, which she says are “like a very expensive version of The Sims.” As a physicist she gets tired of being asked to weigh in on economics, geopolitics, and despair — but she still defends the right of scientists to have strong feelings about the planet.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Human Nature
Discussed“So you're a physicist, but in your new book, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet. You're questioning what it means to be a scientist who feels things about what she's studying.”
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