The forecast is: record-breaking heat, wildfires in the West, and extreme rainfall mayhem across the world. Maybe the strongest El Niño in 150 years. Following breaking climate news, we explore a return to mass famine – including real hunger in the UK and …
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Keep a stock of cheap food on hand, just in case – on a small budget. Should you move – or stay? The late Dr. Norman Myers of Oxford on eco-migration. Replay from Ecoshock 2009: financial crash, Peak Oil, and climate disruption – …
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What does Trump’s push for more oil, gas and coal mean for our climate future? Alexis Normand, CEO of data firm Greenly adds it up: Texas, Venezuela, Greenland …Canada? An in-depth review. Plus: fossil decline has tipping points and economic land-mines. “Fossil energy …
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“Climate change has already made the United States poorer” Arizona Economics Professor Derek Lemoine reports. How could carbon from our tailpipes make the sea acidic? Exactly how does that work? Tulane Chemist Bruce Gibb explains with a great 15 minute mini-lecture on Radio …
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Best friends become enemies. Enemies are friends. Business is great. The market tanks. Winter yesterday, summer today, new rules tomorrow. Welcome to whiplash, the time of self-inflicted wounds. What to do? We talk with Dana R. Fisher, expert in social action and author …
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Coal industry dwindling? That myth is blown up by German environmentalist Heffa Schücking. Then: 17,800 years ago, methane shot up in decades. Rapid ice melt changed the rain and an age of wildfire broke out. Is it happening again? We ask Ben Riddell-Young …
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“We have misunderstood the planet we live on – that misunderstanding has taken us to an extinction event in the 21st century.” Jeremy Rifkin is the big-picture man behind “The Third Industrial Revolution” in Germany and China, visionary of mega-trends like “The End …
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UK, Professor Tim Jackson on his book “Post Growth: Life After Capitalism”. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being – degrowth. Stock markets, banks, every business – everybody wants to grow more and buy, buy, buy. …
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Up to 20% of creatures you know will go extinct this century, according to research by Australian biologist Corey Bradshaw, Professor of Global Ecology at Flinders University, Adelaide. Then: why do top economists claim global warming over 3 degrees will cause only minor …
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As climate unravels before our eyes: lead authors and new revelations. Syee Weldeab: in a climate not much warmer than today, long-frozen methane on the sea floor released. Michelle Dvorak’s: Earth will cross 1.5 degrees of warming before 2030, and probably two degrees …
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With radio producers Eddie Yuen & Sasha Lilley. Why do humans fixate on catastrophe, real or imaginary? Does the nation, the economy, or civilization need to collapse- to start anew? Who benefits if we think like that, and would things get better or …
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From the UK, Professor Tim Jackson talks about his new book “Post Growth: Life After Capitalism”. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being – degrowth. Stock markets, banks, every business – everybody wants to grow more …
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