Podcast Episodes

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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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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, 9 months ago

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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, 4 months ago

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BONUS EPISODE: Election 2020

Season 4 Episode 13

What does the 2020 election in the United States tell us, or remind us, about the state of democracy in America? A follow-up to our Season 4 series o…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Hearing Hiroshima (Rebroadcast)

The word “Hiroshima” may bring to mind a black-and-white image of a mushroom cloud. It’s easy to forget that it’s an actual city with a million peopl…

5 years, 10 months ago

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S4 E12: More Democracy

Season 4 Episode 12

What will it take to make the United States a more fully-functioning democracy, and how can we, as citizens, bring about that change?

By host and pr…

5 years, 11 months ago

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