Climate Change Therapy

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast that once used to be about climate change, got sidetracked in 2020, but is trending back towards climate change for 2021, thanks to the divine intervention of vaccines for Christmas. On today’s (12/22/20) episode, host Hank Felsman reconvenes the March 2020 COVID-19 emergency podcast roundtable - the urban planners Lars Mikelson, Robert Ball, "Pseudonym" Fix, and Jean Laundice - to recap the year that is so indescribable it has already become its own adjective, and to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 3:00 – A round of introductions 8:30 – January 2020 25:00 – February 2020 35:30 – March 2020 46:45 – April 2020 1:00:15 – May 2020 1:15:00 – June 2020 1:26:45 – July 2020 1:32:30 – August 2020 1:46:20 – September 2020 1:57:15 – October 2020 2:04:50 – November 2020 2:20:45 – December 2020 Bonus links cited: Konrad Steffen, Glaciologist - Obituary: https://www.ipcc.ch/2020/08/14/obituary-konrad-steffen/ Al Schmidt, Philadelphia County Board of Elections Commissioner- Feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/magazine/trump-election-philadelphia-republican.html Climate Change 2020 Year-in-Review: https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-2020/WARMING/qzjpqdadnvx/

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to talk about climate change, an enormously important topic that, curiously, we don’t spend an enormous of time talking about in real life, other than, of course, the haven of this podcast. On today’s (12/14/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes Atom Bauerstein onto the program, with spot appearances from Hank’s Brother (between bites of pizza) in a sidekick role, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 6:15 – How Atom thinks about climate change in his day-to-day life 13:50 – Waste management in the live entertainment business, featuring brief digressions into the subjects of grand pianos and - name-drop alert - Senator Cory Booker 18:00 – The last time Hank, his brother, and Atom were together in person, in early March 2020, two weeks before the bars closed 22:40 – Summer 2021 predictions, including the difference between bringing back live sports and live music festivals 30:45 – Getting tested for COVID-19 34:25 – Segment: Talk About It, featuring New Jersey, climate change, aliens, and more 47:25 – The first time hearing about climate change, featuring An Inconvenient Truth and South Park 52:00 – Atom hijacks host duties and interviews Hank about climate change, the Green New Deal, and more 1:05:10 – More climate change 1:15:00 – Music break, or a break to talk about music 1:09:00 – A failed segment about entertainment that should have been cut for time 1:24:30 – Segment: Guess that Weezer Song, feat. Atom Bauerstein, ex-bassist of Lame Duck Demolition and, more relevant to this segment, of the Weezer cover band Ace

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where, in a perfect world, we would spend hours and hours worrying about climate change, but in 2020, just want to be able to spend the holidays with our families again. On today’s (11/17/20) special edition Decision 2020 follow-up episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes back his Cousin Jeremy, Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, to revisit their last conversation, the 2020 Election Preview Special Edition (Climate Change Therapy, Ep. 26), check in on each other’s well-being, and discuss climate change, the state of American democracy, and unrelated topics, including: 6:45 – Good news for climate change policy 12:30 – A good question about the difference between executive orders and legislation. Cousin Jeremy attempts to explain. Hank presses, bullshits, spitballs. Clearly more research needs to be done! 22:20 – A day-by-day play-by-play of Election Week experiences, Tuesday to Saturday 43:00 – Trump refusing to concede and Republicans standing with him 53:30 – A transition to Biden (as a podcast subject, if not yet as certified President-Elect) 57:20 – The thing about these mail-in ballots 59:20 – Predictions for the next 64 days 1:02:20 – Free speech, and calling the free press “fake news” 1:05:15 – Rapid-Fire Questions, featuring unrelated topics

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk about the greatest anxiety-inducing global problems of our age, starting with climate change, as a form of mutual therapy for both podcast guest and host. On today’s (10/29/20) special edition Decision 2020 episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Cousin Jeremy, a Washington insider and Senior Political Analyst at BlockRadius.net, onto the program, to discuss the imminent 2020 Election, climate change, and unrelated topics, including: 5:20 – How Cousin Jeremy thinks and talks about climate change in his everyday life 9:30 – The 2016 Election 18:00 – The 2020 Election forecast: polling, rust belt swing states, voter turnout and demographics, etc. 25:20 – The candidate that reminds Hank of the KFC Double Down 27:00 – The southern swing states 31:00 – The counterintuitive impact of COVID on voter turnout 37:45 – When we will know the winner 43:50 – Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions 48:00 – Segment-within-segment: Executive Branch Nepotism 52:00 – The 2020 Presidential candidates on climate change 58:00 – Fracking, and the important distinction between banning it and phasing it out to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 1:08:30 – Climate Change Fact & React, featuring the majesty of whales 1:16:00 – A new segment called Talk About It, featuring climate change and more 1:30:00 – Rapid-Fire Questions 1:35:45 – How to stay sane and hopeful, while still staying informed 1:40:30 – Thanksgiving 2021 1:42:00 – Final predictions for 2020 Election swing states

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we talk through our worries about climate change, the great problem of our age, as a form of therapy for both podcast host and guest. On today’s (10/27/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes his Uncle David, a writer-actor-green thumb-black belt and full-time uncle onto the program, to discuss climate change and unrelated topics, including: 5:00 – How Uncle David talks about climate change in his daily life in the Hudson Valley, featuring ash trees, ticks, geese, water chestnuts, and more 12:45 – New York City-inspired climate change musings 21:00 – Moby-Dick 30:00 – Seeing bears and bald eagles in his backyard 33:00 – Segment: Climate Change Fact & React, featuring crab-eating macaques, literacy rates, and more 40:00 – Chopping wood and carrying water, as a climate change “therapy” 48:45 - Plants 58:00 – The most beautiful things seen in nature 1:01:00 – Segment: Rapid-Fire One-Word Reactions 1:03:00 – Writing vs. acting 1:14:30 – Linking art to climate change 1:25:25 – Uncle David’s top travel destination, post-COVID vaccine 1:28:30 – Hank shares a disturbing dream he had last night and solicits an interpretation 1:33:45 – 1970s nostalgia 1:38:00 – The moon landing, Vietnam, and the Cuban missile crisis 1:40:45 – Grandpa’s time in the army during WWII 1:44:30 – The record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season 1:48:45 – How this story ends 1:52:15 – Tips for being a better listener

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we honor our conscience by furthering the dialogue about the greatest problem, perhaps, that humanity has ever faced - climate change - while allowing, quite generously, for digressions down rabbit holes of much more immediate, local concerns. For example: the coronavirus. On today’s (6/25/20) episode, Hank welcomes his boss (at his real job), the legendary Philadelphia business leader Beverly Harper, onto the program to discuss climate change, COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, and unrelated topics, including: 5:05 – The effect of COVID-19 on climate change 9:00 – How the news and civil discourse have changed since the good ole days of Dick Cavett 14:00 – The removal of statues and monuments, such as the Columbus statue in Philadelphia 20:25 – How slavery and colonization was taught in schools when Beverly was a student, and teacher, in the 1960s 27:45 – The George Floyd protests, reasons for optimism, and 1960s comparisons 37:00 – Defunding the police 42:25 – A new segment called Beverly Reacts! 48:30 – A question from our only listener, steering the topic back to climate change 58:20 – Starting a small business in 1969, as a black woman without a business background, and then growing it into the successful business that Hank works for today 1:11:00 – Beverly’s family history, including a house immortalized in the National Museum of African-American History & Culture (nmaahc.si.edu/jones-hall-sims-house) 1:13:00 – Leading the charge for minority and women-owned business legislation in Philadelphia in the 1980s 1:29:00 – Schools and unrelated topics 1:41:00 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo 1:43:35 – Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell 1:45:55 – Music 1:49:00 – The impact of COVID-19 on transit 1:53:30 – Advice to young people for remaining hopeful and optimistic in 2020 and beyond

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we once forced ourselves to talk exclusively about climate change, but have since pivoted to worrying mostly about the coronavirus. On today’s (5/21/20) episode, Hank welcomes the New York City psychiatrist (turned COVID-19 front-line hospital worker) Danny Santa on to the program, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 2:45 - Danny’s experience working in a New York City hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic 26:40 - How Danny used to think about climate change, before the pandemic, and how he thinks about climate change now 36:00 - Eco-anxiety and “rethinking hope” (Recommended reading: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending) 49:00 - Comparing the intelligence of humans today with the intelligence of humans centuries ago 52:15 - Spirituality/religion and climate change 1:00:00 - “The Last Dance” 1:05:45 - Leisure in NYC during the quarantine, including walking through Central Park, running by the river, and biting the bullet to go visit one’s parents 1:09:45 - Segment: Which came first? Feat. Which came first: the circle or the sun? And: Which came first: the use of wood for fire or for shelter? 1:17:35 - Final thoughts, how we can combat COVID, treatments, testing, predictions for the reopening of restaurants, and predictions for the development of a vaccine (i.e. hope)

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we once forced ourselves to talk exclusively about climate change, because it seemed so necessary then, but have since pivoted to focusing our discourse on the coronavirus, if only to give us all a break from TikTok and Tiger King. On today’s (4/15/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes onto the program the sports business/communications mastermind Joe Ozo and the “essential item” (beer) distribution strategist Hirsch, to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 2:15 - Introductions 5:00 - The impacts of the coronavirus on Rolling Cases 9:00 - The current contents of our COVID bunkers 13:15 - The prospect of having sports again in 2020, including a hot take of Hirsch’s that will leave your mind blown 28:30 - Baseball’s proposal to play all games in a biodome in Arizona, including the TV payoff, the massive risk of confining everyone to a presumed safe location that paradoxically becomes a petri dish, and what a “season” might actually look like 47:30 - The Red Sox and Astros cheating scandal conspiracies, featuring a classic Hirsch rant about living in the stone age 54:00 - Alternatives to live sports, in the time of COVID 59:00 - Joe Ozo pays tribute to Dr. Anthony Fauci 1:02:20 - Predictions on the return of sports 1:22:00 - Final thoughts 1:24:30 - Bonus segment: the NFL Draft next week

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy with Hank Felsman, the podcast where we used to talk about climate change, but for weeks now have been unable to talk about anything but the coronavirus. Until today! Today, we talk about something else, something very special. Indeed, on today's episode (4/1/20), we reveal the results of the highly competitive BlockRadius New Logo Design Contest (BRNLDC)! And there's one more treat for you. Not only do we reveal the results, but we also do so joined remotely by none other than the top two BRNLDC finalists themselves: the Philly-renowned urban planner & designer Z Nalywayko and the fabled NYC starchitect A Cooke. Just like you, they too will be hearing the results for the first time. 4:00 - Contestant introductions, feat. A Cooke, Z Nalywayko, and Z's personal PR person, his girlfriend M Danny Lynn 7:45 - A Cooke and Z Nalywayko discuss their final designs and their design process 16:45 - Voter pseudonyms 23:20 - Reactions to the results! 49:50 - The coronavirus

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy. On today’s (3/18/20) episode, host Hank Felsman and architect Robert Ball call up their friend and colleague Lars Mikelson, who in turn calls up their friend and colleague "Pseudonym" Fix, to talk about climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 3:30 - 1:09:20 - The coronavirus. Who are we kidding? The whole time, we just talk about the coronavirus.

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to talk about climate change, if only to make sure we make time regularly to talk about the most important long-term threat we face as a species, despite how busy our lives seem in the short-term. On today’s (3/10/20) episode, host Hank Felsman sits down with the educator, artist, and anarchist Miranda de las Calles to discuss climate change, the coronavirus, and unrelated topics, including: 2:30 - The effects of the coronavirus on Miranda’s work in Philadelphia public schools, at the moment 7:40 - How Miranda came to be an anarchist 16:30 - The seminal anarchist climate change text: “Desert” by Anonymous 25:40 - Gold mining and authoritarianism in Nicaragua 31:50 - The key environmental philosophical question: Would you rather live in a high-tech highly-automated society, or as a member of a small band or tribe in the natural world? 36:00 - The compatibility (or lack thereof) of anarchy and capitalism, and of anarchy and money 48:15 - Population, poverty, and progress 51:00 - Climate change and the Global South 56:45 - The coronavirus, revisited 1:04:00 - The Green New Deal’s strategy to address climate change and unrelated topics all at once vs. a strategy that more directly mirrors the known climate change-specific solutions out there, such as the 100 climate change solutions laid out in Project Drawdown 1:15:30 - Segment: Counting down and reacting to the top 10 climate change solutions (according to Project Drawdown) 1:38:30 - Refrigerators and air conditioners 1:47:30 - Segment: Radical ideas! Do you support them? Feat. limiting the number of refrigerators to one per household, and much, much more 2:09:00 - Elon Musk

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we vent about climate change, discover reasons for optimism, and ultimately find solidarity in the fact that our existential troubles are not unique to us alone, but rather shared by so many of our dearest companions. On today’s (2/29/20) episode, host Hank Felsman sits down with his younger brother, a professional therapist, to confront climate change and unrelated topics, including: 3:00 - Hank’s brother’s professional credentials as a therapist, including his many licenses and degrees, and implicit credentials as a climate change therapist, in particular 6:00 - Social anxiety vs. uncertainty intolerance, whether participating in improvisational theater classes might be regarded as a strategy to reduce anxiety (the topic of Hank’s brother’s doctoral dissertation), and whether “eco-anxiety” should really be called “eco-uncertainty intolerance” 17:20 - “Eco-anxiety” unpacked, including its myriad causes, symptoms, and degrees 33:30 - Talking to kids about climate change, as parents, teachers, and therapists 43:25 - “Eco-trauma” from wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. and the nature of trauma in general 52:25 - How growing up in the suburbs has shaped the brothers' connection to nature 58:30 - Stories about pets, including Brian the Frog, Macaroni the Hamster, and Armstrong the Hermit Crab 1:04:45 - Beautiful things the brothers' have seen in nature 1:10:30 - Segment: Hank’s brother ranks his top 3 democratic presidential candidates on a scale of 1-10 in five categories, as a 1) boss, 2) co-worker, 3) parent, 4) sibling, and 5) friend 1:21:20 - The status of the brothers’ pact to go vegetarian for the entire month of February, the shortest month of the year 1:30:00 - Bonus segment

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to talk about the critical yet often-avoided topic of climate change, because it’s important such conversations be given platforms to exist, and because our daily lives are typically too busy with unrelated personal dramas to discuss such upsetting global matters in satisfying enough depth to constitute proper therapy. On today’s (2/1/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes the financial philosopher, non-profit accountant, and aspiring prosecutor Alex Greer onto the program, to discuss climate change and unrelated topics, including: 3:45 - The conversations Alex has about climate change, at work and outside work 8:00 - Humpback whales being spotted in the Hudson River 11:45 - The impact of climate change and economic development pressures on an already water-scarce region in Kenya, per a recent Human Rights Watch report 30:00 - Unknown long-term effects of contemporary technology on health and the environment, including cell phones, Teflon, and chemicals 34:15 - The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico 40:20 - Extremely abstruse (difficult to understand) discussion on economists, including job transition in the energy sector, Keynes vs Milton Friedman, inequality, and jobs created by government spending (Disclaimer: Hank understands 5% of this) 1:01:15 - Segment: Rate that Policy! (Rapid-fire) feat. Universal basic income, Medicare for all, Free college tuition, Carbon Tax 1:08:00 - Greer’s career change, from non-profit accountant to aspiring financial crimes prosecutor 1:23:25 - BlackRock’s big announcement to account for climate change, reasons for optimism, and reasons for pessimism 1:57:55 - Memories in nature, including blizzards, leaf piles, and nice gentle summer rains 2:07:15 - Segment: How Guilty Do You Feel About This Activity? feat. flying, making tea, ordering off Amazon, and so much more

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we practice the dark art of talking about climate change in social settings, within the flow of a casual conversation among friends. On today’s (1/20/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes the urban planner Lars Mikelson and the architect/urban designer Robert Ball onto the program, to discuss climate change, urban planning, and other unrelated topics, including: 5:00 - Cooling stations 11:30 - Lars’s new job in corporate real estate and what new climate change conversations go on there 14:30 - An update on Robert’s graduate school academic life, featuring his most recent urban design studio project that focused on the impacts of sea level rise on Newtown Creek in New York City 21:15 - Why Philadelphia cut its street cleaning program years ago, why street cleaning is important, and Philadelphia’s plans to bring it back 28:50 - Parking on Passyunk, street trees attracting rodents, the Chestnut Street Transitway, putting porches and balconies on “IKEA architecture”, and other Philadelphia-specific topics 39:15 - Indonesia’s plan to move its capital from the sinking megacity of Jakarta to the far coast of Borneo, more than 1,000 kilometers away 1:00:50 - Segment: Climate Change Fact and React! (Indonesia edition) 1:10:00 - What gives Lars and Robert hope for how we will address or adapt to climate change 1:18:00 - Geoengineering: a reason for hope, or a reason for fear? 1:22:15 - Whether or not a giant pendulum, the size of a windmill, that attains perpetual motion with the help of a few workers who take turns pushing the pendulum to prevent it from slowing down, can be a more reliable source of energy than a windmill

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves, through the constriction of this podcast medium, to talk about the urgent yet upsetting topic of climate change, and thus engage in a conversation of such intensity that is simply not practical or enjoyable to have in a more classic social setting. On today’s (1/18/20) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes the educator and philosopher Gabe Gordon onto the program, to discuss climate change, urban planning, and other unrelated topics, including: 4:40 - Gabe’s participation in climate change activism activities over the past year 12:30 - The rise of climate change discourse into the cultural mainstream 18:45 - The epidemic of "eco-fatigue" developing in the young, and the importance of combating this by insisting on the importance of individual actions, even if they are but drops in the bucket, or votes in the ballot box 24:00 - Recycling decisions, such as whether to wash out a hummus container with hot water to prepare it for recycling, or to just throw out the hummus container to save the hot water 27:20 - Discussing a review of Naomi Klein’s new book On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal 32:50 - Understanding the cost, scale, and purpose of the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act introduced by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in November 2019 48:00 - The federal budget of the United States, broken down 56:45 - The field of candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary 1:31:50 - A quick word on the Australian bushfires

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we set out to talk about nothing else but the upsetting yet urgently important topic of climate change, for as long as we can, to find comfort and solidarity in the climate existentialism we share with our friends and colleagues. On today’s (12/23/19) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes environmental urban planner Myles Owings onto the program, to discuss climate change, urban planning, and other unrelated topics, including: 8:40 - Climate change impacts on Philadelphia, including the effects of extreme heat and sea level rise 21:00 - The lack of windmills in Philadelphia and the potential of offshore wind 23:40 - Nuclear power, unfiltered 40:00 - Segment: Climate Change Fact & React, featuring how the phenomenon of animal extinction was not discovered until 1796 45:50 - Climate change psychology and humanity’s tendency to procrastinate even what we know to be the most important thing 51:30 - Personal responsibility as it relates to climate change, when our behaviors as individuals have such a minimal impact 55:00 - The responsibilities of municipalities and the differences between climate mitigation, resiliency, and adaptation 1:02:00 - Myles’s time as a firefighter for the Forest Service in California in the late 2000s 1:08:45 - Climate change threats to the island of Fiji, where Myles once lived and served as a member of the Peace Corps 1:17:15 - Fijian culture, including the importance of family and community, and the influence of Indian culture 1:27:00 - The need to change and adapt vs. the need to save and preserve 1:45:00 - Segment: Climate Change Fact & React, featuring the first mammal to become extinct due directly climate change, by way of sea level rise: the Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent that once existed on a small island off the coast of Australia, until its extinction in 2019 1:51:30 - Myles ends the show on a positive note by describing the first time he saw a redwood tree

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves to sit for a good solid hour and talk about nothing else but climate change, because as John F. Kennedy once said, the only way to reduce your eco-anxiety is to talk about the anxiety-inducing topic itself. On today’s (12/9/19) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes transportation planner Tomthy Heaney onto the program, to discuss climate change, urban planning, and other unrelated topics, including: 4:30 - Tomthy’s job in the regional and intercity rail industry 10:25 - Talking about climate change with friends, before and after grad school 15:00 - The mind-numbing effect of climate change numbers, cognitive dissonance, and the inability of human beings like us to process large numbers, such as trillions of dollars or large death tolls, in a manner that is consistent with their magnitude 19:15 - Segment: Climate Change Fact and React, featuring extremely large mind-numbing numbers 25:30 - Dealing with the moral conundrums raised by climate change, including biking, Amazon, and buying shrimp 36:30 - Tomthy meeting David Byrne on multiple occasions while biking around New York, including Tomthy’s spot-on impression of David Byrne 38:45 - Segment (unplanned): Best biking cities 44:50 - Tomthy’s biggest beef with biking in Philly 50:40 - Amazon, surrendering personal data, and whether an HR robot will ever be able to reveal Tomthy’s true identity 54:00 - Technological advances that we are most in need of therapy to deal with, including Genetic Engineering Therapy 1:05:30 - The particularly taboo subject of overpopulation 1:08:30 - The point at which we recognize that shit has hit the fan 1:12:30 - Children, and love as the best Climate Change Therapy

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we confront our eco-anxiety head-on and talk about the upsetting topic of climate change for as long as we can, or until we feel better about it, because just as any good therapist will tell you, if something upsets you, try talking about it! On today’s (11/18/19) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes urban planners Maureen McQueen and JJ Joy onto the program, to discuss climate change, urban planning, and other unrelated topics, including: 6:20 - Talking about climate change with co-workers and friends 9:10 - Buying an apartment in a waterfront city amid sea level rise concerns 12:40 - Venice 14:00 - Hank owns up to a mistake made on the last podcast 15:00 - A little segment called Climate Change Fact & React! (Pt. 1) 16:45 - Consumer guilt and the redemptive possibilities of recycling 22:30 - Climate Change Fact & React! (Pt. 2) and the redemptive possibilities of composting 23:45 - Planes, boats, and hyperloops 28:30 - A little segment during which we worry about unintended consequences of perceived normative outcomes, such as universal millionairehood 33:50 - Climate Change Fact & React! (Pt. 3) 35:00 - Immortality and Jane Fonda 39:00 - The effect of climate change on the desire to have (or not have) kids 43:00 - More worrying about unintended consequences of perceived normative outcomes! What if global warming suddenly stopped happening? (Spoiler: environmental degradation will continue) 52:30 - Visits to Berlin, the NYC & Philly transit museums, and Dresden 1:00:00 - Climate Change Fact & React! (Pts. 4 & 5) 1:01:30 - Moments of great profundity during which one’s heart fills with gratitude for the human experience and all that is beautiful and loving and even fleeting in the world, as a positive side-effect of eco-anxiety (Alternate title for this segment: “Dogs”) 1:09:30 - Our favorite animals: revealed! 1:13:30 - Tap water, bottled tap water, and gift certificates

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we force ourselves, through the very existence and structure of this show, to talk about the important yet depressing topic of climate change, for a good solid hour. On today's episode (10/22/19), Hank welcomes back Philadelphia businessman/philosopher J. Mar (pseudonym) to the show to get real deep and real real, on all things climate change and unrelated topics, including: 4:50 - Greta Thunberg’s boat 10:20 - Solar vs. nuclear energy 15:30 - Searching for “climate change” in Google News and reacting to the headlines 19:00 - Eco-anxiety 24:45 - Hopefulness about being hopeful again one day, in spite of climate change 28:00 - Being present, rather than being hopeful, and an ensuing debate about the spiritual benefits of being hopeful vs. the spiritual benefits of being present 33:50 - The emotional state that one should hope in the present to attain (Spoiler: it's gratitude) 37:00 - A character-revealing philosophical question concerning a difficult choice between two apocalyptic scenarios 40:00 - How human creations can seem so “alien” to what we find in nature 45:50 - Consciousness, naturally 50:00 - Ariel’s dad from The Little Mermaid, as God 52:15 - Free will, what matters, man’s search for meaning, etc. (impromptu philosophy medley!)

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we practice talking about climate change, because climate change is an important topic we could all use a little bit more practice talking about. On today’s (10/1/19) episode, host Hank Felsman welcomes the renowned urban philosopher (and fellow BlockRadius co-founder) Z Nalywayko onto the program, to discuss urban planning and other unrelated topics, including: 3:45 - How we are talking about climate change since we last talked about climate change 9:15 - Climate change ”Fact Reaction”: tropical forest species go extinct at an average of 137 species per day 13:45 - The ballad of the spotted owl, a conversation about what is worth saving 19:00 - Climate change “Fact Reaction”: how many trees are cut down for toilet paper every day? How many newspapers? 21:00 - Apocalyptic scenarios, as depicted in popular entertainment and in our nightmares 28:00 - Robert Ball joins the program, and a debate ensues about what is more likely to withstand the apocalypse: our water/sewer system, or the internet? 37:40 - Hank reads Greta Thunberg’s address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on 9/23/19 44:30 - Climate justice and the Green New Deal 52:30 - The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates 1:05:20 - Z’s trip to the Redwood Forest last month 1:09:10 - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Lil Wayne 1:18:10 - Robert Ball’s book recommendation of the day, The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin

Welcome back to Climate Change Therapy, the podcast where we address the elephant in the room of our time: climate change, a subject that is almost impossible to bring up with your friends and still have your friends like you, and yet a subject that is vital to talk about amongst friends, because only by having conversations amongst one another can the collective conservation advance. On today's episode (6/16/19), Hank welcomes the transportation guru and energy policy wonk Lars Mikelson onto the show to discuss all things climate change and unrelated topics, including: 7:00 – an unofficial update from a source inside the New York City transportation planning scene (Lars himself) on the status of the L train reconstruction 10:00 – a similar kind of update on the status of NYC’s new congestion pricing scheme 14:55 – the ethical dilemma of flying 22:10 – Hank’s long-winded justification for why he flies, including whataboutism and the fact that there will always be “CO2 emissions” as long as humans exist and are exhaling 28:55 – the need for a massive electrified high speed rail network, and of course, ideas to create this 39:10 – the future of air travel, featuring Lars expertly shooting down Hank’s worst ideas 46:10 – Lars answers Hank’s “Essential Dilemma of Existence” 52:00 – projecting the cities with hottest real estate markets in 2050 1:00:30 – Lars plugs his new HBO show, Chernobyl 1:06:00 – flying over Beijing and Miami 1:09:25 – a new idea for a perpetual motion machine that uses human labor (*creates jobs*) to complete the loop 1:16:45 – cruise ships and tourism