This week on Radio Ecoshock – we give it all. There are two hot interviews. Julian Cribb tell us about his new book “The Coming Famine. The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It.” I had a major realization …
Should the very rich control our climate? Our food? In the Radio Ecoshock for last week, I may suprised listeners with a very different point of view. Former Whole Earther Stewart Brand came out swinging for nuclear power, genetic engineering, and geoengineering as …
We all know the creatures of the Earth are in dire straits. Billions of humans. More tens of billions of our food animals. All slashing down the landscape, denuding the oceans and polluting the atmosphere. Unless we make a drastic change, the climate …
Friends did a month of rain that fall last night? Did rivers flood in the Fall? Did you know 214 all-time heat records were set in the U.S. September 24th? It was 30 degrees in Toronto, feeling like 37 with the humidity – …
“I feel great despair. My heart tells me to drop everything and run to the mountains, to try to find a place to take my family to ride out this great demise. Help!Wednesday September 22, 2010 12:05″ Bill McKibben: “Hey, me too on …
Radio Ecoshock Show September 3rd, 2010 GO STRAIGHT TO THE TRANSCRIPT, with lots of links and downloads. [Radio show starts with a clip from “Fire” by Arthur Brown, 1968][plus news radio clips…] Welcome back to Radio Ecoshock. Thanks to the 22 college and …
GO straight to the Full Transcript with links now. Coast to Coast AM covers the Gulf: RICHARD C. HOAGLAND: “Gas explosion, 50 miles off Louisiana, that you can imagine. Think Mount St. Helens, underwater. What that would do is create a cloud of …
While oil gushes out of the Gulf, and the economy staggers toward the exits, scientists continue to investigate our longer future. For example, could it get so hot that large parts of the heavily inhabited Earth would have to be abandoned? And I …
What makes a mild-mannered biology professor call for a planned collapse of the economy? Canadian scientist Bill Rees would know. He was an inventor of the ecological footprint concept, and has been measuring our impact on the planet for decades. Now he’s worried …
“Look. I’m going to do my best to end up in a kind of hopeful optimistic place. But – I am by nature, by sort of profession, I am kind of a professional bummer-outer of people. So we’re going to have to deal …
This Ecoshock program features two interviews. We start out talking about South America, and how changes to the Amazon rainforest could impact the climate of the whole world. I also cover two jaw-dropping stories this week: #1. the complete fake-out as General Motors …
In the Spring of 2010, the East Coast of the United States was nearly drowned in an extreme precipitation event. Ditto parts of Australia, and Rio in Brazil. This is the other half of “global warming” – global wetting. Scientists have been warning …