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Season 5 Episode 8
The climate crisis is not new to Bangladesh. For decades, global warming has exacerbated storms and flooding and turned many thousands of people into…
4 years, 1 month ago
S5 E6: "We Don't Have the Power to Fight It"
Season 5 Episode 7
Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence – for example, between farm…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus Episode: Manchin on the Hill, and Introducing Drilled
Season 5 Episode 6
Co-hosts John Biewen and Amy Westervelt discuss the U.S. Congress’s effort to pass its first major climate bill ever, and Senator Joe Manchin’s move …
4 years, 2 months ago
S5 E5: Jakarta, the Sinking Capital
Season 5 Episode 5
Southeast Asia is especially vulnerable to storms, rising oceans, and other climate effects—though countries in the region did very little to create …
4 years, 3 months ago
S5 E4: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell
Season 5 Episode 4
Why has the United States played such an outsized role in the creation of the climate crisis? As a settler nation, the U.S. emerged from the colonizi…
4 years, 3 months ago
S5 E3: "Managing" Nature
Season 5 Episode 3
If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? In fact, did cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed u…
4 years, 3 months ago
S5 E2: To the Victor
Season 5 Episode 2
How western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, from the Crusades to capitalism. Part 2 of our ser…
4 years, 3 months ago
S5 E1: In the Beginning
Season 5 Episode 1
Part 1 of our series on the climate emergency. How did we drive ourselves into the ecological ditch? And, crucially, who is this ‘we’? Our story star…
4 years, 4 months ago
Season 5 Trailer: The Repair
Season 5
This season will explore the cultural roots of our current ecological emergency, and the deep changes Western society will need to make to save the E…
4 years, 4 months ago
REBROADCAST: S4 E8 The Second Redemption
Season 4
This special re-broadcast of a Season 4 episode is in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. A look at the right-wing counte…
5 years ago