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Real Answer: Post Growth and Degrowth (replay)

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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Creating alien intelligence – what could possibly go wrong?

Israeli historian, author & scholar Yuval Noah Harari blows our minds, going beyond human with artificial intelligence. How long before it surpasses us, evolving beyond control – and takes over? What then? Selections from from the Frontiers Forum April 2023, and Jordan Harbinger  …

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Climate Catastrophe Could Be Very Close

Just as we feared, new science confirms tipping points and climate catastrophes can arrive much, much sooner than we were told. A must-listen interview with UK research scientist and lead author Simon Willcock. Seems like it’s already here, with extreme heat punishing every  …

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The Rush to Wreck the Planet

Hot world and blistering speech at U.N. by Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Sea ice expert Dirk Notz: new science shows summer Arctic sea ice gone within 10 years? Oil industry takes over the COP climate process. The crazy rush for methane power –  …

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Why Make a World Nobody Wants?

Why are we heading hell-bent into a world that nobody wants?  Social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger warns adding AI to our unsustainable system will speed disaster for humanity.  Daniel talks with UK science communicator & former pro poker player Olivia “Liv” Boeree.  Then Canadian  …

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On Fire Again

Early Spring wildfires cover parts of North America with smoke. Record temperatures roast the Pacific Northwest, again. India and Thailand went into their ninth straight week of unbearable heat. That’s how it was last week. This week you will hear 3 of my  …

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Making $$ from Endless Record Heat

“Endless record heat” over Asia. Strange Spring heat waves from Spain to Botswanna. Is it because the ocean has never been hotter? Then Katrin Gandswindt from Urgewald names the trillion dollar pension funds and investment houses paying for a new surge in fossil  …

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Nomad Century & Bad Banks

Are your savings helping the mad new expansion of fossil fuels? From RAN, Dr. April Merleaux names big banks expanding oil, gas & coal from the Arctic to the Amazon. Where does that lead? From London, broadcaster, author, and science journalist Gaia Vince  …

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Climate: A Big Change Emerges Down Under

Antarctic currents, We the Children, and worst car maker award.  From Australia, Dr. Matthew England explains new Antarctic science that literally changes the whole world. I talk with 11-year-old Zach Fox-DeVol about his “We the Children” podcast. From Public Citizen, Erika Thi Patterson  …

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What I Really Think Will Happen Is Happening Already

Tornadoes, climate and a rocky future Long-time science journalist Alex Smith finally admits his own hopes and fears, knowing what we know now. Some neglected new science shows up, plus clips with Todd Rose on collective illusions, and a word from 11-year-old climate  …

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Avoiding the Doom Loop in the Age of Crisis

Can crisis tip us into an ecologically sane civilization? UK Think tank report author Laurie Laybourn on a future where disasters ripple across the world. Then let’s get away – to Antarctica. Why did sea ice crash around that frozen continent? Increasing El  …

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Why Normal Is Never Coming Back

Space physics expert Professor Thomas W. Murphy warns government and corporate plans are impossible. The growth game is OVER. We are never going back to “normal”. Post Carbon Institute Fellow and author of 14 books Richard Heinberg says “The renewable energy transition is  …

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