S2E22 A Trillion Dollars: Rowan Hooper on Changing the World

A trillion dollars is an immense amount of money, and yet it can so easily be made to feel small. When you’re tasked with saving the environment, ending world poverty, or settling on the Moon, you can spend it pretty quickly. This is the premise of Rowan Hooper’s latest book ‘How To Spend a Trillion Dollars’. In the book the New Scientist journalist explores many issues that could be advanced or solved with this vast amount of money. With so many options on the cards, Rowan explains the process of deciding which issues made the final cut. In this episode find out how a thought-experiment can very quickly turn into something much more powerful, learn to extract creativity from rejection, and use this call-to-action to change your own habits.