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1 week ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Cara Nichole Maesano
Today’s outro track is the 1971 soul classic “Clean Up Woman” by Betty Wright - the reasons will become clear. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As we talked about with folk from Carbon Technology Research Foundation and last week, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is going through some things.
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1 week ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Mic Wright
You lucky ducks. We are replete - nay, verily, festooned - with a content cornucopia just for you. “Actin like life is a big commercial” seemed like a line worth nicking for today’s outro. And if you hate the Beasties you’re in the wrong parish, friendo. Pass the Mic is the outro track for this conversation. Answers on a postcard about why - best answer gets a set of steaknives pint on us. is the madman media survivor behind one of this show’s second-favourite newsletter, .
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1 week ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Cara Nichole Maesano
Today’s outro track is the 1971 soul classic “Clean Up Woman” by Betty Wright - the reasons will become clear. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As we talked about with folk from Carbon Technology Research Foundation and last week, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) is going through some things.
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1 week ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Today’s outro track is “Blame it on the Sun” by Stevie Wonder. A bit on the nose but a solid track. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Why is it, every time the lights go out, anywhere in the world, there are ten influencers with pre-written posts about how it’s the fault of wind and solar on the grid?
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Why the intro theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey - a meditation on how the fate of humanity is bound up with making good decisions about technology? Is that really a question? We’re on a bit of a carbon dioxide removals kick this week. The Climeworks ‘headwinds’ we spoke about with in our previous episode continue to blow. RIP Norm(s), in CDR, American energy, and CheersRichard Delevan, Maeve Allsup, and Robert Höglund·May 22Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Maeve Allsup
“It'll be between a scalpel and a sledgehammer,” was how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House in the US, described how his Republican majority would approach stripping clean energy programmes in the Inflation Reduction Act. Based on what happened last night, it’s more like a wrecking ball. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Imagine if David Frost had gotten Richard Nixon - or at least Haldeman or Ehrlichman - to sit for an interview in the middle of Watergate. Well, yesterday the equivalent happened at the Bloomberg-organised Qatar Economic Forum. First, context. Musk was beaming in remotely from Austin to the event in Doha. These events, particularly when hosted in gleaming Gulf cities, are not typically news-making affairs.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan
Remember when a multi-racial guy from Chicago who’d spent a chunk of his life in the Global South became the most important American in the world? And many of us projected onto him all our hopes that he’d do the radical transformations needed to fix our biggest problems? And then were disappointed? Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Jeremy Wallace
Hey it’s Richard Delevan. Welcome back to Wicked Problems. If historians look back at this period – if there are still historians – will they pick a key moment when the world moved from optimism to defeatism? From optimism, since 2015 – after the Paris Agreement, Laudato Sì, solar and battery crushing the cost curve - that climate change could be addressed with win/wins involving innovations in tech, in finance, in global diplomacy. Wicked Problems is a reader-supported publication.
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1 month ago | 
news.wickedproblems.uk | Richard Delevan |Dave Vetter |Adam Bell
Remember. It’s darkest before…things go totally pitch black. Whether originating with the late Senator John McCain, Paul Newman, Mao, or John McCain quoting Mao, we love that line. Embrace the dark. When you stop being afraid of the dark, your eyes get pretty good. You might even spot some undead types who are back from the grave and up to no good. And I think there might be some types up to no good, here in Britain.
