The Polycrisis
Tim Sahay and Kate Mackenzie on how geopolitics has been driving a quiet revolution in clean tech, and how the energy transition is in turn reshaping world power.
The Polycrisis
Latest Episodes
08 | Demand Destruction | Techno-optimism?
In this final bonus season episode, Kate and Tim reflect on the morality of focusing on the "co-benefits" of war, and whether they are techno-optimists or techno-pessimists. Hosted by energy and climate finance expert Kate Macken...
07 | Brazil: The next green industrial superpower?
The Polycrisis is sharing some episodes from other podcasts around the world while we develop our next season.This episode is from the Brazilian ClimaInfo podcast ....
06 | The conjuncture of geopolitics, energy and climate
The Polycrisis team’s taking a short break, we’ll be back next week. In the meantime we’re sharing an episode from NuVoices where they interview Kate Mackenzie. NuVoices host Solarina Ho asks K...
05 | Canada gets its China-made EVs
The Polycrisis team’s having a short break, so we’re sharing a couple of episodes from other podcasts that are very relevant to our themes. Chinese EVs are just beginning to arrive in Canada this week; but – as we wrote bac...
04 | Demand Destruction | Smelling the roses in Beijing
US-China relations have evolved because of the Middle East war. Trump recently made the first presidential visit to China in nine years. So what are the implications for energy and international development? And why it's not so much a “Ch...