Welcome to Carbon Cowboys

For decades we've heard that "the markets" will solve the climate crisis. On Drilled: Carbon Cowboys, we put that theory to the test, following Bruce Rastetter, a corn ethanol kingpin-turned-carbon entrepreneur from Iowa to Brazil, and asking the big questions: Are these "climate solutions" actually reducing emissions? Is CO2 increasing or decreasing as carbon becomes a commodity? Or is green colonialism just as extractive as the regular sort? Drilled: Carbon Cowboys begins on May 12th. Pushkin+ subscribers can hear episodes early and ad-free. Find Pushkin+ on the Drilled show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm/plus .

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Welcome to Carbon Cowboys is an episode from Drilled by Pushkin Industries.

This episode is 4:21 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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