Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

Why Your Pension Fund Is Dangerously Underprepared for Climate Change | Bonus Content

"Wouldn't it be nice if the banks and insurers stopped facilitating the activities that are probably going to have such severe impacts on their industries within the next 30 years?"Actuary Louise Pryor explains how economic models systematically underestimate climate risk, what a sudden repricing of that risk would mean for financial markets, and how the concept of home insurance could become unworkable across large parts of the world.These ideas are discussed in episode 3 of Overshoot, Minsky Moment.Listen to Overshoot podcast wherever you get your podcasts - https://overshootpod.com/

There’s no plan for repairing the planet | Bonus Content

Professor Michael Obersteiner is one of the scientists who popularised carbon capture - now he's warning that we'll need to run it for 300 years at a cost of up to 10% of global GDP - and the world hasn't even begun to negotiate how to do it. This is what net negative actually means, and why it changes everything about how we think about climate action.

How the fossil fuel industry exploits net zero | Bonus Content

We sit down with investigative climate journalist Amy Westervelt to dissect how the framework of "Net Zero" has been weaponised by the fossil fuel industry to justify continued extraction and emissions. We dive into the empirical and thermodynamic realities of carbon capture and storage (CCS), exploring why scaling this technology faces rigid physical and geological boundaries - such as subterranean pore space constraints and gaseous migration - that limit its theoretical capacity to a fractional 2-3% emission reduction. Westervelt exposes the systemic failure of voluntary carbon markets, tracking how tech giants have funded offset projects in Bolivia and Kenya that resulted in severe environmental and social disruption. The world has already missed 1.5°C. Overshoot explores what comes next.🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube🌍 overshootpod.com#climatechange #Overshoot #climatecrisis #Netzero #drilled

General's Warning: This Is the Biggest Threat We Face | Bonus content

Lieutenant General Richard Nugee spent 36 years in the British Army. Now he's warning that climate change isn't a future problem. It's a national security crisis happening right now.From resource wars to food insecurity, collapsing supply chains to mass migration, Nugee explains why the military understood the climate threat long before politicians did - and why we're running out of time to act.The world has already missed 1.5°C. Overshoot explores what comes next.🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube🌍 overshootpod.com#climatechange #NationalSecurity #Overshoot #climatecrisis #BritishArmy

AMOC Collapse: The Nightmare Tipping Point | Bonus Content

We sit down with world-renowned oceanographer and climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf to discuss the reality of the AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) tipping point. After 35 years of studying this system, Stefan warns that what was once considered a "low probability, high impact" risk has escalated to a staggering 50/50 chance - or worse - of collapsing within our lifetimes.Stefan features in episode 1 of The Overshoot Podcast.Overshootpod.com