Wooly mammoths, whale poop, marsh gas… these are some of the things I discuss with environmental journalist and science curator for TED Talks David Biello in our conversation about his book, The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age. Biello argues that we’re still prey to the false notion that there’s…
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In our first episode in our new series on the climate crisis, I talk to Dan Sherrell about his book, Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Dan is a climate organizer – he has led successful campaigns to phase out coal-fired power plants, divest millions of dollars from the fossil fuel…
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The climate crisis has hovered in the background of many of my episodes – and sometimes burst to the fore – but now I’m ready to take it on head-on. Really, the decision was made for me if you factor in 1) the UN climate report that came out this summer with its “code red…
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How fragile is our economy? Can it rebound from the impact of the shutdown and – similarly – from stresses climate change might inflict in the future? These are some of the questions I’ve found myself asking during the Covid pandemic. Looming over all of these was a broader and more troubling question: were the…
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