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What is to be done?

What is to be done?

By: Carolina Sachs Sasja Beslik och Joel Lindefors
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We know we can’t stay on the current path. We roughly know what needs to change, but we don’t yet know how.

This podcast takes that question as its starting point. We’ll talk with people from business, politics, academia, and activism who can help us see new ways forward, people whose experience, perspective, and courage might help us answer that question. With this podcast, we want to begin mapping out and inspire others to map out, strategies and action plans for greater speed and force in the transition toward sustainable development.

We ask ourselves, and our guests, the same question:


What is to be done?

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Carolina Sachs, Sasja Beslik och Joel Lindefors
Economics Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The emperor has no clothes. With Isadora Wronskij from Greenpeace International.
    Dec 15 2025

    In the first part of our growth trilogy, we explored what infinite growth on a finite planet might look like. In the second conversation, we depart from the opposite position and explore what system-level change could look like, what needs to grow, what needs to shrink, and what it means to build a future defined not by excess, but by enough. Our guest in the studio is Isadora Wronskij from Greenpeace International.


    Greenpeace International has recently articulated a new strategic direction, one that looks beyond single-issue campaigns and asks much bigger questions: How do we redesign our economies around wellbeing and sufficiency rather than growth? What alternatives are already emerging? And what kinds of alliances, political strategies, and forms of activism might actually get us there?

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Infinite growth on a finite planet. With Sam Tidswell from ReGen Ventures.
    Dec 8 2025

    After our initial pilot episode, we’re diving straight into one of the many complex themes we plan to explore. First up is the concept of growth, which we’ll devote three episodes and three interviews to. At the end of this trilogy, we’ll share our own reflections on the different perspectives offered by our guests.


    In the first part of the trilogy, we meet Sam Tidswell, a venture capitalist focusing on cutting-edge technologies, from seaweed-planting robots to biomining and building materials engineered from atoms rather than mined from the earth. Sam not only believes that a regenerative capitalism and infinite growth on a finite planet is possible, he believes it’s something we’re likely to see in the near future.

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    54 mins
  • S01E01 The Pilot
    Nov 25 2025
    This is the first episode of the podcast “What is to be done?” with Sasja Beslik, Carolina Sachs and Joel Lindefors. In this podcast, we want to explore strategy and tactics for keeping up the highest possible pace in the transition toward a flourishing society on a flourishing planet.

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    1 hr and 1 min
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