Climate Change: Facts, Fiction and Fair Share.
Episode notes
Almost everyone thinks they understand climate change. The science has not become less certain, but the conversation around it keeps shifting, and one new player is changing the maths fast: artificial intelligence.
In this episode of Off Script, Naina and Elizabeth are joined by Dr. Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, who holds a PhD in Physical and Analytical Chemistry from Sorbonne University and is the CEO and co-founder of Trianon Scientific Communication. She is President of the Belgian Entreprenoires, Vice-President of Brussels' Climate Experts Committee, and a board member of the European Policy Centre.
Together they get honest about the AI question most people skip. Every query you send draws on a data centre that burns power and drinks water to answer you, and a single request can use roughly ten times the energy of a typical Google search. Yet the same technology is accelerating progress on things like vaccines. Audrey argues that AI is here to stay, so the real work is learning to live with it wisely: choosing smaller, university built tools over the biggest players, funding sustainability instead of endless scale, and remembering that everyday habits like one meat free day a week still add up. She also shares the thinker who shaped her view, Vandana Shiva.
No tidy conclusions. Just better questions.
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