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David Roberts

Host and Creator, Volts · 2 appearances on the record.

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David Roberts reports on clean energy technologies, grid decarbonization, and climate politics through his independent outlet, Volts. Prior to launching Volts in 2020, he spent over fifteen years covering energy and the environment as a staff writer for Grist and Vox.

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1 assertion · 2 opinions · 3 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Roberts: Don't Look Up Broke Netflix Weekly Streaming Records
“It broke records on Netflix. I think it has the most hours streamed for any movie in Netflix history in the space of a week, the week of December 27th, and in terms of total streams, it's the second biggest movie in Netflix history.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 3:17 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change

Everything David Roberts said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Roberts: Most Climate-Themed Art and Media Have Been Bad
“Over the course of my career, most attempts to grapple with climate change via art, you know, music, or movies, or TV shows, or poetry, have just been bad.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 1:09 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change
Opinion
The Climate Movement Devolved Into Infighting Because Mainstream Institutions Ignored It
“You just end up talking to other climate people, and you end up Arguing with other climate people and forming these sort of teams and factions within the climate movement because no one else is paying attention. So I think that's sort of like become the cultur…”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 12:59 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change
Insight
Roberts: Climate Art Struggles Because Scale Conflicts with Specificity
“It's so big and so distant and so kind of all-encompassing and abstract that it's very difficult to approach it via a specific place or person or story or relationship, and those specifics are what give art its power and its meaning.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 1:40 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change
Insight
Roberts: Audiences Won't Flock to Movies Explicitly Marketed About Climate Change
“If you tell people, I made a movie about climate change, they're not going to herd to see it. They're just not.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 8:13 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change
Insight
Roberts: Mammalian evolution makes humans ill-equipped to emotionally process climate change
“We're evolved creatures who are evolved to care about things within a certain space around us and on a certain timescale, right? We're just mammals. That means close proximity and relatively short timescales. And climate is huge and far away and slow.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 16:28 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change
Assertion Supported
Roberts: Don't Look Up Broke Netflix Weekly Streaming Records
“It broke records on Netflix. I think it has the most hours streamed for any movie in Netflix history in the space of a week, the week of December 27th, and in terms of total streams, it's the second biggest movie in Netflix history.”
David Roberts Jan 20, 2022 ▶ 3:17 Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change

The other half of the tape: David Roberts's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 5 episodes on the Green Blueprint. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What’s the next big trend in clean energy? Jul 20, 2023 12m
Adam McKay on how to make a movie about climate change Jan 20, 2022 11m
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