Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth Reddy, "¡Alerta!: Engineering on Shaky Ground" (MIT Press, 2023)
Episode 233
The Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano is the world’s oldest public earthquake early warning system. Given the unpredictability of earthquakes, the t…
3 years, 3 months ago
X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
Episode 93
Matt Colquhoun (author/editor of Egress and Postcapitalist Desire) speaks to to Thomas Moynihan about his most recent book X-Risk: How Humanity Disco…
3 years, 3 months ago
John D. Aber, "Less Heat, More Light: A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change" (Yale UP, 2023)
Episode 156
Climate change is one of the most hotly contested environmental topics of our day. To answer criticisms and synthesize available information, scienti…
3 years, 3 months ago
Christina Gerhardt, "Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 155
Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises? Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean …
3 years, 4 months ago
Philip Gooding, "Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 61
Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) explores histories of droughts and floods in the…
3 years, 4 months ago
Rob Verchick, "The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 154
One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral.…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ailton Krenak, "Life Is Not Useful" (Polity Press, 2023)
Episode 153
Indigenous thinker and leader, Ailton Krenak, exposes the destructive tendencies of our ‘civilization’ in Life is not Useful (Polity, 2023), which i…
3 years, 4 months ago
Daniel Ruiz-Serna, "When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories" (Duke UP, 2023)
Episode 226
In When Forests Run Amok: War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories (Duke University Press, 2023) Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows…
3 years, 4 months ago
China's Green Consensus: A Discussion with Virginie Arantes
Episode 180
How has China’s one-party system dealt with the country’s growing environmental issues? And what implications does its green turn have on people’s ev…
3 years, 4 months ago
Laurie Parsons, "Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 92
Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. Laurie Parsons's book Carbon Colonialism: How Rich Countries Export Climate…
3 years, 4 months ago