Season 3 · Episode 32 · 30 Jan 2026
32 - James Arbib
With James Arbib
“"When systems change, everything changes and in some ways, the greater and deeper your expertise of the old system, the more you have to unlearn. That’s a challenge I’m confronting daily, to unlearn what I thought I knew and try to relearn."”
Reflections
Q1: Place
If we could do a flypast on any part of the world that is significant to you, which place, city or country would it be and why?
Mesopotamia
Q2: Life
Give us a glimpse into your life story so far with an emphasis on what you are doing currently?
History at University, environmental activism around finance, Founded Re-think X and wrote the book Rethinking Humanity as a hopeful analysis as to how we might solve most of the problems of climate change.
Q3: Reset
Where on earth is your place or reset or re-charge?
Georgian Bay in Canada
Q4: Wonder
What wonder of the natural world excites you the most?
Mycelium networks
Q5: Hopefulness
What is your story of hopefulness (not your own) about a person, business or non-profit who are doing amazing things for the world?
Biotechnology and its potential to change the world. Hacking biology to produce the things we need particularly food and materials. Building and designing food from a single molecule and cell with almost perfect efficiency and therefore reducing the cost to consumers and to the planet.
Q6: Insight
As we prepare to re-enter, what insight, wisdom or question would you like to share with us?
We need to add the paradigm of biology to a paradigm of physics and understand the interconnections, the interactions between the pieces which we've lost,
Location
Flyover
Mesopotamia
Guest
🇮🇶 London (UK)