Podcast

The Green Shift Podcast

CSER is collaborating with Austin Media and Organisational Analytics to launch the Green Shift Podcast. Making sense of sustainability.

What: Green Shift, a podcast focused on Southeast Asia’s transition to a sustainable, secure, and net-zero energy future that keeps life liveable.

Why: Formal policy dialogs and corporate white papers are important but can be stuffy and boring. Green Shift brings the same burning topics — equitable growth, energy transition, geopolitics, green financing, etc. — into a friendly, informed and lively discussion that you don’t have to be an expert to understand.

Who: Co-hosted by David Austin, veteran media strategist and podcast host, Dr. Victor Nian, energy and nuclear expert, and Dr. Andreas Raharso, innovation and strategy thought leader. Together with expert guests and policy practitioners they explore what actually needs to happen to accelerate SEA’s green shift.

Where: YouTube, Substack, Instagram, LinkedIn, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.

When: Soft launching Monday, 9 June.

Inception: Response to critique of nuclear energy

One of our early inspirations came from Singapore’s Assaad Razzouk—also known as The Angry Clean Energy Guy—who has passionately argued against nuclear power. He believes it’s expensive, polluting, slow to build, and unnecessary for solving the climate crisis. In his view, investing in nuclear is a distraction from developing renewables. But CSER co-founder and Green Shift co-host Dr. Victor Nian is one of Southeast Asia’s leading experts on nuclear energy, hydrogen, and net-zero strategies. His work focuses on long-term energy planning, industrial development, and technology cooperation. So we wanted to hear Victor’s take. We recorded a segment exploring Razzouk’s arguments in detail, and that is what is shared here.

Episode 1 Assaad Razzouk

What happens when two experts you respect disagree? That was the question at the heart of this episode. Our guest, Assaad Razzouk is CEO of Gurīn Energy, a renewable energy company based in Singapore and is also known as The Angry Clean Energy Guy on his podcast of the same name. And he is the author of Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit. What they don’t tell you about the Climate Crises, which has been a big influence on many of us. Not too long ago Razzouk had an episode of his podcast where he really tore into nuclear energy, saying its expensive, polluting, takes a long time to build, and that it is not necessary to solve the climate crisis and any attempt to do so is just a waste of time, effort, and money that would be better spent on developing renewables. Green Shift co-host Dr Victor Nian happens to be an expert in nuclear energy, and he’s made a compelling argument for including it as a key ingredient in the energy mix of carbon-free energy.

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The Green Shift Podcast

Inception: Response to critique of nuclear energy

Episode 1 Assaad Razzouk