Inconvenient Chats

By Kaisa Virolainen & Jan Kleine

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Climate change is real, accelerating, and profoundly urgent - yet the world isn’t changing quickly or deeply enough. In our experience, many important conversations are being avoided, maybe unintentionally. They're inconvenient: messy, emotionally charged, a little uncomfortable, ideologically polarized, or simply complex. This is why we have started Inconvenient Chats, our podcast to create room for some of these conversations – not with all the answers, but with honest questions. We believe that if something makes you uncomfortable, that’s often a sign it’s worth exploring. We’re two friends who both have been working with climate change and sustainability for a number of years. Each week we’ll explore a new topic, we break it down, discuss different perspectives and explore solutions – and hopefully feel more comfortable talking about them. The episodes will be short and will come out every week.We want to challenge ourselves to think, understand and question our assumptions about the world and ourselves. And learn a bunch on the side. So join us when we are making space for the voices in our own heads - the doubts, fears, wonderings. We invite you to come along in that exploration. By having uncomfortable conversations openly, with curiosity, we hope to invite and encourage dialogues that explore difficult topics with critical thinking, emotional honesty, and kindness in a world that often prioritizes perfection and certainty. If it’s inconvenient, let’s chat.

Episode Date
IC29: Will our dependency on oil ever end?
Apr 29, 2026
IC28: What are climate change attribution studies?
Apr 22, 2026
IC27: What are the selfish arguments for climate action?
Apr 15, 2026
IC26: What is an individual's role in fighting climate change? (with Christian Sparrevohn)
Apr 08, 2026
IC25: What are the carbon emissions from wars?
Apr 01, 2026
IC24: Should we have a climate value added tax?
Mar 25, 2026
IC23: Why does geoengineering carry global catastrophic risks?
Mar 18, 2026
IC22: Do human rights need a business case?
Mar 11, 2026
IC21: What is happening to the EU's emissions trading scheme?
Mar 04, 2026
IC20: Why do you even care about sustainability?
Feb 25, 2026
IC19: Is the EU's regulation for batteries a blueprint for sustainable strategic autonomy?
Feb 18, 2026
IC18: How can geopolitical strategy advance sustainability?
Feb 11, 2026
IC17: Is current geopolitics the death of climate action?
Feb 04, 2026
IC16: Do we start caring less as we grow older?
Jan 28, 2026
IC15: Did also any good things happen in 2025?
Jan 21, 2026
IC14: What are the opportunity costs from Ecosia's pledge for a Clmate Nobel Prize and their integration of AI?
Jan 14, 2026
IC13: Why is (de)growth a taboo?
Jan 07, 2026
IC12: Will AI and data centres become the climate's biggest problem?
Dec 17, 2025
IC11: Has Bill Gates become a climate denier?
Dec 10, 2025
IC10: Another planetary boundary breached - what does it mean to me?
Dec 03, 2025
IC9.2: Do the constant bad news make us numb?
Nov 26, 2025
IC9.1: Do the constant bad news make us numb?
Nov 19, 2025
IC8: Shouldn't we be alarmed by the overuse of resources?
Nov 12, 2025
IC7: Are you a wizard or a prophet?
Nov 05, 2025
ICF1: Feedback #1 (first reviews, IC1: False Balance)
Nov 03, 2025
IC6: Do you need to be an expert to have an opinion?
Oct 29, 2025
IC5: Do we still need UN COPs?
Oct 22, 2025
IC4: What is an inconvenient chat?
Oct 15, 2025
IC3: Why freedom can only be realised in liberal democracies?
Oct 08, 2025
IC2: Do words matter?
Oct 01, 2025
IC1: Why does false balance distort public debates?
Sep 24, 2025
Inconvenient Chats: Teaser
Sep 07, 2025