A conversation with the author of ‘Race for Tomorrow’ on how the crisis and the experiments to avert it are reshaping our world

• Play Time : 70 mins

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• GM crops
• climate crisis
• Xinjiang
• Mongolian Dzud
• climate change
• climate justice
• circular economy
• Pleistocene Park in Siberia
• carbon credits
• Electric vehicles
• climate refugees
• cobalt mining
• engineered meat
• thawing permafrost

Climate change is undoing the gains India made from the green revolution. In this extract from his book, Race for Tomorrow, Simon Mundy talks about how, in the struggle to respond, companies like Mahyco are experimenting with genetic engineering to create new super-crops

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• innovation
• book extract
• climate change
• Simon Mundy

February 4, 2022: Where is the Indian media?; Coffee and climate change; Catastrophe

• Read Time : 3 mins

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• coffee
• leadership
• climate change
• Media business
• Samarth Bansal
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Doris Kearns Goodwin

November 10, 2021: The real game of life; Parents’ guide to Instagram; Life imitates art

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• extroverts
• introverts
• Dale Carnegie
• climate change
• Instagram
• Systems Thinking
• Susan Cain

November 5, 2021: Greta’s Dilemma; Work-life relationships; Summits explained

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• Charles Darwin
• Kaushik Basu
• Steven Johnson
• Greta's Dilemma
• the Great Resignation
• Work-life relationships
• Kathryn Hymes
• climate change

November 3, 2021: Solving climate crisis needs new tools; The cult of haters; Truth tellers

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Satya Nadella
• haters
• AI
• climate change
• Saqib Shaikh

November 2, 2021: Before pay hike, comes the homework; The immediate concerns of climate change; What’s in a name?

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• questions
• negotiating skills
• climate change
• continuous learning
• Ian Leslie
• Michael Marquardt
• COP26

Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation

• Read Time : 10 mins

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• Kenneth Arrow
• Kurt Godel
• Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem
• climate change
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Michael Sandel
• Systems Thinking
• Greta's Dilemma
• Impossibility Theorem
• Deep listening
• Marianna Mazucatto

October 28, 2021: A post-pandemic wish list; Amitav Ghosh on unnoticed impacts of climate change; Corporate life

• Read Time : 4 mins

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• Anthony de Mello
• Amitav Ghosh
• climate change
• Ground Realities

The world needs new explanations of how complex systems evolve to save itself from catastrophe. Theories of progress must put cooperation—at all levels—in the foreground, and look beyond national self-interest

• Read Time : 10 mins

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• Garrett Hardin
• climate change
• the science of complex systems
• Elinor Ostrom
• ethics
• local solutions
• Systems change