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Inconvenient Chats

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by Kaisa Virolainen & Jan Kleine

35 episodes
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Climate change is real, accelerating, and profoundly urgent - yet the world isn’t changing quickly or deeply enough. In our experience, many important conversations are being avoided, maybe unintentionally. They're inconvenient: messy, emotionally charged, a little uncomfortable, ideologically polarized, or simply complex. This is why we have started Inconvenient Chats, our podcast to create room for some of these conversations – not with all the answers, but with honest questions. We believe that if something makes you uncomfortable, that’s often a sign it’s worth exploring. We’re two friends who both have been working with climate change and sustainability for a number of years. Each week we’ll explore a new topic, we break it down, discuss different perspectives and explore solutions – and hopefully feel more comfortable talking about them. The episodes will be short and will come out every week.We want to challenge ourselves to think, understand and question our assumptions about the world and ourselves. And learn a bunch on the side. So join us when we are making space for the voices in our own heads - the doubts, fears, wonderings. We invite you to come along in that exploration. By having uncomfortable conversations openly, with curiosity, we hope to invite and encourage dialogues that explore difficult topics with critical thinking, emotional honesty, and kindness in a world that often prioritizes perfection and certainty. If it’s inconvenient, let’s chat.

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Recent Episodes

Episode thumbnail for How is culture shaped by fossil fuels? with Sakari Säynäjoki

July 8, 2026

How is culture shaped by fossil fuels? with Sakari Säynäjoki

Episode thumbnail for How do you navigate climate guilt and flying? with Fred Baker

June 17, 2026

How do you navigate climate guilt and flying? with Fred Baker

In this week’s episode of Inconvenient Chats we are joined by Fred Baker, a sustainability strategy consultant here in Denmark. We delve into our personal relationships with flying and the guilt that often accompanies it. Both of us have made attempts to reduce our carbon footprints when it comes to air travel. However, the struggle remains, and we find ourselves questioning whether we should feel guilty about taking flights at all.

Episode thumbnail for Is climate fully replaced by geopolitics? with Benjamin Gibson

June 2, 2026

Is climate fully replaced by geopolitics? with Benjamin Gibson

Inconvenient Chats is back after a break! We are continuing in a new format with guests, and in this first episode we discuss geopolitics and climate with Benjamin Gibson, the senior manager for geopolitics at the Danish wind energy developer Ørsted. Is geopolitics taking all attention away from climate action, and do businesses just need to deprioritise the climate agenda in order to keep themselves afloat in a geopolitically volatile world?

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What is Inconvenient Chats?

Climate change is real, accelerating, and profoundly urgent - yet the world isn’t changing quickly or deeply enough.

In our experience, many important conversations are being avoided, maybe unintentionally. They're inconvenient: messy, emotionally charged, a little uncomfortable, ideologically polarized, or simply complex.

This is why we have started Inconvenient Chats, our podcast to create room for some of these conversations – not with all the answers, but with honest questions. We believe that if something makes you uncomfortable, that’s often a sign it’s worth exploring.

We’re two friends who both have been working with climate change and sustainability for a number of years. Each week we’ll explore a new topic, we break it down, discuss different perspectives and explore solutions – and hopefully feel more comfortable talking about them.

The episodes will be short and will come out every week.We want to challenge ourselves to think, understand and question our assumptions about the world and ourselves. And learn a bunch on the side.

So join us when we are making space for the voices in our own heads - the doubts, fears, wonderings. We invite you to come along in that exploration.

By having uncomfortable conversations openly, with curiosity, we hope to invite and encourage dialogues that explore difficult topics with critical thinking, emotional honesty, and kindness in a world that often prioritizes perfection and certainty.

If it’s inconvenient, let’s chat.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

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