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そしたらですね、今日は科学系ポッドキャストのやつをやるんで。 And I have prepared something, but not super planned or thought out as usual.
So let me kind of talk you through what I am planning to talk. I don't know how I will get to it, but just so that you have an idea of what I am going to talk about.
今回のテーマが地球で、ざっくり何でもいいよって感じだったから。 I just went for sort of a quick episode because I had just read this book.
えっとね、多分作者名とか出しといた方がいいんだよね。 Maybe I should give out the author's name.
エネルギーをめぐるたび…フルタチコウスケだったかな。 I think it was Furutachi Kousuke.
そんな感じの名前だったんですか。 Was that the name of the author?
その人の本をすごくよかったので、なんか、あの、コウスケだよね、多分これ。 Yeah, I bought a lot of his books, so I think it was Kousuke.
あ、よかった、ローマ字でコウスケって書いてる。 Okay, I don't know.
あ、よかった、ローマ字でコウスケって書いてる。 Okay, I don't know.
日本語の名前ちょっとわかんないからね。 I don't know the Japanese name.
難しいから。 It's difficult.
そう、難しいから。 Yeah, it's difficult.
えっと、で、この本の名前はエネルギーをめぐるたび。 So, this book is titled Energy Travel.
あの、この人、エネルギー会社とか科学材料会社とかで働いてるのかな。 He's a salaryman.
So, he's not like... he's not a...
Like a scientist?
Yeah, he's not a scientist.
He's a scientist.
I mean, he might have some experience, obviously, thinking about science or thinking in scientific ways, but he's not a researcher at the moment.
He is... I'm not sure what exactly he does in his company, but he's like, 会社員。 A salaryman.
And I think that makes him an interesting person to talk about energy, because obviously he's very knowledgeable.
He clearly done his research for this book, but...
And he's talking a lot of deep things about thermodynamics as well, because the part of the book is talking about the history of how humans have developed energy.
So, or like humans have...
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To measure energy, do you mean?
Well, to measure is one of the things, but, you know, to even understand what energy is and trying to harness, like, what is energy?
How can we make it and how can we store it?
How can we make more of it?
Like all of that stuff.
So, he goes through like a very sort of high level, brief history of that, like scientific history.
So he does go into that, but I think he's constantly aware of not leaving the audience behind on all of these scientific jargons.
And which I find it interesting.
He's constantly tying back to other topics like philosophy or part of this.
You know, it says in the title, it's a big tabi, right?
It's a journey.
And he constantly brings back the point that this is a part of the journey.
I feel like this topic can be really dry if you want to talk about it in a very dry way.
But he makes it an interesting, like sometimes philosophical, even, but still very rooted in history and knowledge about energy and humans' relationship with energy source.
So, I thought this is a good book to talk about because like this is ultimately sort of kankyo mondai type book.
So, I would like kind of go through the summary of them and you can, you know, stop me for questions or comments or what have you.
But I think I'm just going to go through that.
And then we'll see how long it takes to get there.
If we have time, I want to briefly mention Bill Gates' book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
How do you say houdai in Japanese?
Let me look it up.
Bill Gates' book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
If I type in book, the most recent one comes up.
Oh, here it is.
What I Decided for the Future of the Earth.
That's totally different.
I guess, yeah, that.
Yeah, I'm gonna, because this is another book where somebody is talking about climate change and climate disaster.
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And his, I mean, the premise of the book is entirely different.
This book is all circling around the topic of how do we get to net zero emission of greenhouse gases?
Not just reducing green gases, but net zero.
So, it's a pretty ambitious goal that I feel like not everyone is talking about.
But he's very, he's not just saying that we should go for net zero.
He has his reasons to believe that it is possible and that it's not easy.
It's not going to be a quick solution, but it's achievable goal.
And why we should aim for net zero rather than just reducing it.
So, I think, like, this book is more interesting as a way to approach problem, I think.
Like any, I mean, and you can kind of extend it to any type of problems.
But I think this is, what should I call it?
Yeah, it's like an interesting contrast to the previous book.
And, you know, where he, like in the previous book, he is like painting a bigger picture in a very big detail.
And going through, traveling through time to sort of like see where we come from and where we're going.
Right. And Bill is very much focused in now.
Like, what can we do now to avoid the disaster in the future?
And I also thought there was like a couple of things that he does with, that's not just related to climate related problems.
But the way he decides on what to invest in and what to put resources in.
Like the way he, it's not the entire thought process, but he does go through like a process in which he identifies the key problem.
So I thought that might be also an interesting sort of contrast.
If I have like, I mean, I want to talk mainly about the first book because it's in Japanese and it should be accessible to more listeners who are listening to us.
I mean, Bill Gates' book is also in Japanese.
I haven't read it, so I don't know how good the Japanese translation is.
But yeah, I want to talk about it and then I don't know how to wrap it up.
Maybe we can wrap it up.
Just kind of thoughts and comments or if there's anything you have recently started or I have recently started doing in conjunction with climate change.
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Or, you know, just in general sort of environmental cause, like small things, you know.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess that's sort of where I'm going to go for.
Does that sound good?
Yeah, sounds good.
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