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Net zero is under fire in this episode of The Bridge: A Disagreeing Well Podcast, where host Marva Khalid asks whether the global target is a real climate solution or a political distraction.
Grounded in Marva’s experience of climate impacts in Pakistan, the conversation digs into whether net zero is helping us survive or just delaying hard choices.
Two expert perspectives:
• James Dyke: argues net zero has failed because it leans on unproven carbon removal tech instead of rapidly ending fossil fuel use. He sees it as turning a political challenge into an engineering fantasy.
• Emma Fieldhouse: sees net zero as an essential global baseline from the Paris Agreement. It’s imperfect, she says, but it has driven real behaviour change and should evolve into net negative emissions.
The episode explores where these viewpoints clash and where they unexpectedly align, offering both urgency and a dose of Emma’s “hopeium.”