🌡️ Climate Emergency: Are We Too Late? ⏰ | Powered by Enactus NL | Popping Bubbles Podcast

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For our very first episode, we sat down with Steve Kennedy and Irthe de Jong to discuss climate change and how we can all take action to prevent it. Steve Kennedy is an associate professor researching business sustainability at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Irthe de Jong is a board member at De Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Dutch Youth Climate Movement) and a PhD student in European & International Law at the University of Amsterdam.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
01:20 Guest introduction
02:43 Steve's work
06:05 Study from ExxonMobil
07:16 Irthe's work
09:26 Polycentric governence 
13:17 Profit from sustainability 
15:07 (Business) incentive to change 
21:19 What drives companies to resist
26:23 Deep-sea mining: development vs. sustainability
36:33 "Will we be on time?"
40:33 Rotterjam
45:34 Plugging the symptoms: "failure" of education
53:00 "Are we f*cked?": climate anxiety
1:00:53 "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
1:08:20 Scaling in sustainable business
1:12:01 Favorite social enterprises 
1:16:03 Takeaway message to the viewers