Heading to Hell in a handbasket
Paul Ehrlich returns to his seminal work “The Population Bomb” to discuss cultural v. technological evolution, discusses his recent work with the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere...
View ArticleYogurt & the apocalypse: The narratives of environmentalism
Literary critic Ursula Heise discusses the construction of environmental & earth science narratives, the origins and perhaps misuse of apocalyptic environmental stories, and some of the ways she...
View ArticleEmerging infectious disease in the Anthropocene
Biological anthropologist James Holland Jones explains how diseases typically spread from animal to human populations and how that might change as our planet continues to warm. He also discusses how...
View ArticleAre you afraid of climate change?
Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute Michael Shellenberger discusses the cultural relevance of the Anthropocene and why it’s a term that so many people have adopted. He also addresses the complex...
View ArticleEarth’s Tipping Points & Abrupt Climate Change
Climate researcher and host of PBS’s Earth: The Operators’ Manual Richard Alley discusses abrupt climate variations in Earth’s history and what he defines as climate tipping points – leading to a...
View ArticleCritical Mass: A documentary on global population
Filmmaker Mike Freedman explains the creative process behind his debut documentary, Critical Mass. His film explores how the growing population alters the social and psychological environment, and the...
View ArticleThe Apocalypse (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Anthropocene)
One month after the Mayan apocalypse of 2012, the Generation Anthropocene team of Leslie Chang, Mike Osborne, and Miles Traer chat about the relations between the Anthropocene and apocalyptic...
View ArticleExtremophiles of the Anthropocene
If we’re looking for how life will respond to rapid environmental changes, we should probably look to bacteria adapted to live in extreme environments – what scientists call extremophiles....
View Article[ESSAY] How am I supposed to answer “Are we screwed?”
This essay was written by Mike Osborne. If you wish to hear Mike read it, click play below. Download Episode As a climate scientist in training, the most common question I get from my non-science...
View Article[ESSAY] Four geologists that nature just couldn’t kill
Most of the epic survival stories you’ve read probably involve crazy mountain climbers, adventurous cave divers, or bearded and grizzled desert hikers. Scientists aren’t typically mentioned in this...
View ArticleLearning to die in the anthropocene
Does climate change mean the end of civilization? Maybe that sounds crazy, but, then again, all the forecasts are deeply sobering. There are reasons for hope, sure, but there are also reasons to...
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