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In response to several requests from our (wonderful) Patreon subscribers, we're unlocking this episode from behind the paywall. Consider subscribing at Patreon.com/KnowYourEnemy to never miss an episode. March 2025 marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United States now stands at over 1.2 million; globally it surpasses 20 million people. Tens of millions of others were hospitalized, and many who survived infection are facing long Covid or related health complications. Our lives were upended, whether by sheltering-in-place, working from home, and barely leaving our home or apartment, or, for others, by endangering themselves by continuing to show up to work in hospitals, making deliveries, or staffing essential businesses. And yet, as David Wallace-Wells recently argued in the New York Times, "We tell ourselves we've moved on and hardly talk about the disease or all the people who died or the way the trauma and tumult have transformed us. But Covid changed everything around us."We wanted to have a conversation with David about that reality: why, collectively, we resist acknowledging what Covid really cost us, and the ways it continues to shape our lives. The discussion begins by revisiting the first weeks and months of the pandemic, the fear we felt, and the remarkable displays of solidarity that occurred in blue states as well as red states. From there we explore the different "phases" of the pandemic, how public-health measures became culture-war fodder, the impact of the vaccine on how both the public and elected officials perceived the risks of Covid, the pandemic's profound influence on our politics, the fallout from school closures, the Lab Leak Theory, and more.Listen again: "How to Survive a Pandemic" (w/ Peter Staley), Feb 21, 2021Sources:David Wallace-Wells, "How Covid Remade America," New York Times, Mar 4, 2025— "The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else," New York Times, Feb 26, 2025— "We've Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong," New York Times, Feb 28, 2023— "Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong'," New York Times, April 24, 2023David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)Nicholson Baker, "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis," New York Magazine, Jan 4, 2021Zeynep Tufekci, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," NYTimes, Mar 16, 2025.Sam Adler-Bell, "Doctor Do-Little​: The Case Against Anthony Fauci," The Drift, Jan 24, 2021— "David Leonhardt: The Pandemic Interpreter," NYMag, Feb 24, 2022.Jacqueline Rose, "To Die One's Own Death," LRB, Nov 19, 2020.

Listen to the rest of this premium episode by subscribing at patreon.com/knowyourenemyThis month marked five years since the formal start of the pandemic in the United States in March 2020, when the federal government declared the arrival and spread of the novel coronavirus to be a national emergency. The official Covid death toll in the United States now stands at over 1.2 million; globally it surpasses 20 million people. Tens of millions of others were hospitalized, and many who survived infection are facing long Covid or related health complications. Our lives were upended, whether by sheltering-in-place, working from home, and barely leaving our home or apartment, or, for others, by endangering themselves by continuing to show up to work in hospitals, making deliveries, or staffing essential businesses. And yet, as David Wallace-Wells recently argued in the New York Times, "We tell ourselves we've moved on and hardly talk about the disease or all the people who died or the way the trauma and tumult have transformed us. But Covid changed everything around us."We wanted to have a conversation with David about that reality: why, collectively, we resist acknowledging what Covid really cost us, and the ways it continues to shape our lives. The discussion begins by revisiting the first weeks and months of the pandemic, the fear we felt, and the remarkable displays of solidarity that occurred in blue states as well as red states. From there we explore the different "phases" of the pandemic, how public-health measures became culture-war fodder, the impact of the vaccine on how both the public and elected officials perceived the risks of Covid, the pandemic's profound influence on our politics, the fallout from school closures, the Lab Leak Theory, and more.Listen again: "How to Survive a Pandemic" (w/ Peter Staley), Feb 21, 2021Sources:David Wallace-Wells, "How Covid Remade America," New York Times, Mar 4, 2025— "The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else," New York Times, Feb 26, 2025— "We've Been Talking About the Lab-Leak Hypothesis All Wrong," New York Times, Feb 28, 2023— "Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong'," New York Times, April 24, 2023David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth (2019)Nicholson Baker, "The Lab-Leak Hypothesis," New York Magazine, Jan 4, 2021Zeynep Tufekci, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," NYTimes, Mar 16, 2025.Sam Adler-Bell, "Doctor Do-Little​: The Case Against Anthony Fauci," The Drift, Jan 24, 2021— "David Leonhardt: The Pandemic Interpreter," NYMag, Feb 24, 2022.Jacqueline Rose, "To Die One's Own Death," LRB, Nov 19, 2020.

Aquí lo que importa es que sea fresco del día, en nuestro caso, de la quincena. En Radio Curie te ofrecemos una selección de novedades musicales del circuito alternativo internacional hecho con amor y todo el rigor posible. Durante una hora repasamos lo último de lo último, desde el folk a los sonidos más eclécticos de la electrónica, pasando por el postpunk o el hiphop. Aquí cabe casi todo. 1) Sex Week - Coat 2) loucey - alice 3) Bouvier Normal - Long Time 4) Ezra Furman - Jump Out 5) Dirty Projectors; David Longstreth; stargaze - Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One 6) Neev - I Put it in a Frame 7) Benjamin Clementine - Tempus Fugit 8) Deradoorian - Any Other World 9) Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square 10) caroline - Total euphoria 11) Wishy - Over and Over 12) KuleeAngee - Be Good 13) Tropical Fuck Storm - Bloodsport 14) The WAEVE; Graham Coxon; Rose Elinor Dougall - Love Is All Pain 15) SOFT PLAY; Kate Nash - Slushy - feat. Kate Nash 16) The Pill - Problem 17) Lauren Mayberry; Joe Talbot - Sorry, Etc, Etc (feat. Joe Talbot) 18) Rhys Langston; Open Mike Eagle - Ate the Tuning Fork While I Taxied in the Crepuscular 19) 23 Bees - Ok :) 20) The Null Club; E L U C I D - Frameshift

This week's guest is a huge one - the one and only Nadya Hutagalung. Activist, conservationist, film maker, model, mother and attuned citizen on Planet Earth. Nadya's experiences, her work and her own efforts to heal herself from all she has seen, encountered and felt is extraordinary, and I'm absolutely thrilled to be sharing this episode with you.Nadya's trajectory to stratospheric stardom in the mid 90s didn't come from a normal or predictive route - an Indonesian Australian child growing up in regional NSW, she was catapulted into modelling in Japan at the age of 12, and less than a decade later she was part of launching MTV in Asia as one of their first VJs. An innate connection to the natural world existed though, and before long she was sharing the stage with world leaders, heads of state and other public figures in bringing attention and awareness to issues such as wildlife trafficking and poaching, plastic pollution and the ills of fast fashion. Nadya's trajectory took a turn in 2018, when a series of stressful and life changing experiences and opportunities - from launching UN Environment Program reports, to reading an Uninhabitable Earth and a private session with His Holiness the Dalai Lama created a new set of conditions by which to continue to both pursue urgent and widespread change in reversing no shortage of problems, while also seeking to practice stillness and undertake deeper inner inquiry. In 2021 a serious and acute health condition put just about everything on hold, and before long she returned home to Australia for the first time in decades, and today, she's on the show to share in much more detail about all of this.Nadya is a fantastic guest to have on this show, and someone who represents and aligns with so much of my own thinking and the reasoning behind why I started Finding Nature in the first place. Her explanation that our society's out of control relationship to planetary boundaries is a matter of simple calculus is straight forward and clear, but what lies underneath all of the statistics and facts and rationale as to why action on any number of serious environmental problems is a broken relationship to self, to each other and to our planet. Unless we address our values, our worldviews, our beliefs, our relationships, it's hard to appreciate how this is going to end up any differently than the trajectory we're on at the moment. The other thing I wanted to chat about with Nadya was how to help people go from apathy to care, and what are the tools of inner resolve that are necessary when people do care. Because to care is to feel pain, to despair, to experience fear. They are difficult emotions and feelings to encounter and deal with, and as an attempting change maker, this has become increasingly important to focus on as the apocalypse continues to encroach with just the latest calamitous, unprecedented disaster.This time with Nadya was special. I hope from this you realise that you aren't alone in your own struggles, and that there are modalities, practices and people out there who care about who you are, how you're going as a person attempting to and making change, and that help is always available as you traverse the ups and downs of what life offers up on a daily basis. Today's show is delivered with Altiorem. Use the code FindingNature25 to get your first month free on their gold and platinum plans. Today's show is delivered with Gilay Estate. Add Finding Nature to your booking reservation for free food bundles.Send me a messageThanks for listening. Follow Finding Nature on Instagram

David Wallace Wells, author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," reviews the year in climate. The head of the United Nations has described 2024 as a "master class in climate destruction." Then, author Tana French leaves the Dublin police squad where she's set her previous books and sets out for the country in a series of novels where small town politics conceal deadly secrets. "The Hunter" is out in paperback. Also, NPR's James Mastromarino recommends some of the best new board games to play with friends and family this holiday season.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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This week, Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona dive into Kamala Harris's Fox News interview - smart move or not? Plus, why aren't we talking more about the climate crisis?! They also tackle immigration, those cultish Trump/Johnson fans, and the age-old debate: audiobooks vs. real books. Oh, and Matt d'Ancona REALLY hates Halloween.Further reading/watching/listening"The Uninhabitable Earth" by David Wallace-Wells"The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer"Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders"Sonny Boy: A Memoir" by Al Pacino"Don't Look Up" (Netflix film) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stephen Marche - The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American FutureDec 9, 2022Researcher and prolific writer Stephen Marche talks to Ed Opperman about the state of America, and the likely directionit is heading in. In a disquieting interview, Marche details his work looking into the abyss America teeters on the edge of, and with global, financial, economic and environmental disaster just standing close behind, his conclusions should worry us all.Book Review from GoodreadsIn this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that reads like Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized crossed with David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth, a celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts— and tips America over the edge into ruin.If there was an interview which will make people sit up and take notice of where the U.S. is at, then this is surely a contender for that position.Book: The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American FutureWebsite: Stephen MarcheTwitter: Stephen MarcheBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Stephen Marche - The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American FutureDec 9, 2022Researcher and prolific writer Stephen Marche talks to Ed Opperman about the state of America, and the likely directionit is heading in. In a disquieting interview, Marche details his work looking into the abyss America teeters on the edge of, and with global, financial, economic and environmental disaster just standing close behind, his conclusions should worry us all.Book Review from GoodreadsIn this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that reads like Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized crossed with David Wallace-Wells's The Uninhabitable Earth, a celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with experts of all kinds. On a small two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts— and tips America over the edge into ruin.If there was an interview which will make people sit up and take notice of where the U.S. is at, then this is surely a contender for that position.Book: The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American FutureWebsite: Stephen MarcheTwitter: Stephen MarcheBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

This episode addresses the significant effects of global warming and the future our planet faces without immediate and decisive action.

James Murray, Editor in Chief of Business Green, talks with Wicked Problems about everything from handling unexpected protestors to Terry Pratchett-inspired Solar Panel Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.Join us as James shares insights from the Net Zero Festival, discusses the challenges of transition poverty, and offers a vision for a sustainable and equitable future.The Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: Drawing on Terry Pratchett's insightful humor, James discusses economic disparities in accessing green technology and the broader implications for the net zero transition.Mastering Unplanned Moments: Hear about the unexpected stage invasion at the Net Zero Festival and James's perspective on handling protests with respect and understanding.The Importance of Equitable Policies: A discussion on the necessity of designing policies and investments that recognize the risk of transition poverty and ensure benefits are shared equitably.Celebrating Women in Green Business: James introduces the Women in Green Business Awards, highlighting the role of diversity in driving the green economy and addressing the green skills gap.Looking Ahead to the Next Net Zero Festival: A sneak peek into the upcoming Net Zero Festival, its aims to celebrate and showcase the exciting developments in the green economy, and the introduction of a new, in-depth workshop stream.James' Catalysts* David Wallace-Wells' "The Uninhabitable Earth" for its stark depiction of climate risks.* George Monbiot's "Heat" as a pioneering discussion on achieving a net zero economy.* Akshat Rathi's optimistic views in Climate Capitalism.* David Roberts' volts.wtfFurther Reading* Women in Green Business Awards* UK Green Business Awards (June)Connect with James Murray* LinkedInConnect with UsWicked Problems is audience-supported media. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* …or on your favourite podcast platform* Follow us on LinkedIn or BlueSky for updates and discussions on the latest in climate tech and renewable energy.ThanksWe appreciate you tuning in. If you got something out of it, feel free to share. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Bryony is back, this time to talk to David Wallace-Wells. David is an American journalist and author who often writes about climate change. His 2017 article "The Uninhabitable Earth" for New York Magazine was the publication's most-read article in history. David then turned the article into a book of the same name, which was chosen as Book of the Year, 2019, by The Sunday Times, The Spectator and New Statesman. He has a BA in History from Brown University.  Links Read David's original 2017 article here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html Read the 2020 Nature Article on RCP 8.5 here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3 Read Jim Hansen's recent paper on climate sensitivity: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889 View Bryony's favourite Sankey diagram showing US energy inputs and outputs: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/

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World leaders will be gathering in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations conference on climate change. It's the biggest event on the climate calendar, and this year's meeting comes at a fascinating moment for the climate – with wildfires, storms, and heatwaves felt across the last 12 months. In this episode, we look at what COP28 wants to achieve, as well as Australia's current climate policies. Squiz recommends: The Uninhabitable Earth, a book by David Wallace-Wells The latest Squiz Kids episode on climate change #sponsored: Study a course with Monash Online. Designed by those who change it. Find out more at: https://online.monash.edu/contact/ Other things we do: Squiz Today - a daily podcast and newsletter that gives a fact-filled run-down of what's making news. Squiz Kids - a news podcast for curious kids. Age-appropriate news without the nasties!

In this episode, we read ‘The Uninhabitable Earth' by David Wallace-WellsThanks to Corry for buddy reading this week! https://www.sciguys.co.uk/https://www.youtube.com/@SciGuys https://www.youtube.com/@stillnotcorryNo Books on a Dead Planet is produced and presented by Leena Norms. Artwork by Gung Ho Studios. Edited by Craig Simmonds.Nab yourself a positive panic patch: https://leenanorms.com/shopFollow Leena's work elsewhere…YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leenanormsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/leenanorms/Poetry collection: https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom

In this week's episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Tyler Felgenhauer, a research director and senior research scientist at Duke University, about social science issues that are associated with solar geoengineering. Felgenhauer discusses different technologies that can facilitate solar geoengineering, the risks and benefits of these technologies, how international cooperation could affect the deployment of solar geoengineering, and recent social science research on solar geoengineering. References and recommendations: “Solar Geoengineering Futures: Interdisciplinary Research to Inform Decisionmaking” event on September 28 and 29, hosted by Resources for the Future; https://www.rff.org/events/conferences/solar-geoengineering-futures-current-research-and-uncertainties/ Solar geoengineering research at Resources for the Future; https://www.rff.org/topics/comprehensive-climate-strategies/solar-geoengineering/ “Social science research to inform solar geoengineering” by Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Jesse L. Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Wake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner, and Jonathan B. Wiener; https://www.rff.org/publications/journal-articles/social-science-research-to-inform-solar-geoengineering/ “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/ “Climate Change and the Nation State” by Anatol Lieven; https://global.oup.com/academic/product/climate-change-and-the-nation-state-9780197584248

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit nonzero.substack.com0:33 Has David's grim outlook on the climate changed? 20:15 How “global warming” became “climate change” 13:38 What wilder wildfires signal about the environment 25:02 Which climate measures are the surest bet? 31:41 Climate science's time-scale problem 39:03 The pros and cons of carbon capture 48:20 Heading to OvertimeRobert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and David Wallace-Wells (The New York Times, The Uninhabitable Earth). Recorded August 17, 2023.Comments on BhTV: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/66601 Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

David Wallace-Wells is back on the podcast to talk about the extreme heat waves, off-the-charts ocean temperatures, massive wildfires, and other climate-worsened disasters that have plagued the first seven months of 2023. The New York Times columnist and author of the 2019 book "The Uninhabitable Earth" returns to The Climate Pod to discuss what has happened since he was on the show back in 2021 and what we should expect in the near future from a rapidly warming planet. We also discuss how climate alarmism has been treated in 2023 and how best to convey uncertainty in climate risks. Check out David's recent columns in the New York Times: A Grim Climate Lesson from the Canadian Wildfires Even in Texas, You Can't Stop the Green Revolution As Smoke Darkens the Sky, the Future Becomes Clear The Ocean is Looking More Menacing Further Reading: Gulf Stream Could Collapse as Early as 2025, Study Says Inside the Republican Plot to Dismantle US Environmental Policy Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly" As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group.

The New York Times columnist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, details the latest climate change news. Will Rollins, a candidate for Congress in the 41st district of California, tells us why it's winnable with him as a candidate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is, we promise, worse than you think.  Or maybe it was?  For all the fear and genuine suffering covering the globe from actual happening climate change, maybe, just maybe,  we are on a path that isn't all out destruction of the Earth?  This week on the show we are joined by climate writer and columnist  David Wallace-Wells. David writes for New York Magazine, The New York Times and is author of best selling book The Uninhabitable Earth. We discuss how David got into climate journalism and how writing The Uninhabitable Earth made him more hopeful about the future, the paradox of Republican politicians and climate investment, and how we persuade people about the benefits of the green energy transition. LinksRead Davids' original article HEREGet a copy of Davids' book "The Uninhabitable Earth" HEREShout outsVarshini Prakash - co founder of the Sunrise MovementSupport the show

Een derde van de wereldbevolking doet het. Het heeft dramatische gevolgen voor het milieu, het klimaat, vrouwen en de gezondheid van 2,4 miljard mensen. En toch hebben we het er vrijwel nooit over: koken op open vuur. Luchtvervuiling is zo'n onderwerp dat je niet meer loslaat, als je de cijfers tot je laat doordringen. Ga maar na: de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie schat dat er tussen 2030 en 2050 ongeveer 250.000 mensen zullen sterven aan de gevolgen van klimaatverandering. Dat is enorm en verschrikkelijk, maar eigenlijk nog maar weinig vergeleken met de impact van luchtvervuiling. Want in dat laatste geval hebben we het namelijk over 10 miljoen doden per jaar. Niet over dertig jaar, maar nu al, ieder jaar weer. In een grote stad als Delhi verliezen mensen maar liefst tien jaar aan levensverwachting door het inademen van vervuilde lucht. Als de wereld verder opwarmt tot 2 graden hebben we het over 153 miljoen extra doden (!!!). Niet door overstromingen, droogtes, orkanen of tsunami's – maar door de extra luchtvervuiling die het verbranden van al die fossiele brandstoffen met zich mee brengt. Oftewel: eigenlijk is luchtvervuiling een nóg sterkere reden om over te stappen op groene energie. Maar naast het verbranden van kolen, olie en gas, is ook het binnenshuis verbranden van hout een gigantisch probleem. Deze week hebben we het erover met wetenschapper Esther Boudewijns, die onlangs een groot paper publiceerde in het prestigieuze tijdschrift The Lancet over de implementatie van 'schoon-kokenoplossingen' in armere landen. Want juist omdat het probleem zo groot is, zijn de oplossingen ook zo veelbelovend. Wie zich bezighoudt met schoon koken, strijdt niet alleen tegen luchtvervuiling, maar ook tegen ontbossing, klimaatopwarming en genderongelijkheid – het zijn namelijk vooral vrouwen die koken. We hebben het hier, kortom, over een win-win-win-winoplossing. Boudewijns vertelt over haar onderzoek en over de leidende rol die Nederland speelt in het – helaas – nog veel te kleine wereldje van schoon-kookactivisten. Als altijd zijn we benieuwd wat jullie vinden van deze aflevering. We zijn te bereiken op rudienfreddieshow@decorrespondent.nl Leesvoer bij deze aflevering: De studie 'Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of improved solid fuel cookstoves and clean fuels in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review' (2022) in The Lancet, waarvan Boudewijns eerste auteur is. (corr.es/87561d) Het artikel 'Ten Million a Year' van David Wallace-Wells in de London Review of Books (corr.es/9289e4) en zijn klimaatboek The Uninhabitable Earth. (corr.es/ab74fa) De Internationale Klimaatstrategie van het kabinet-Rutte IV, waarin Nederland de ambitie uitspreekt om 100 miljoen mensen toegang te geven tot duurzame energie. (corr.es/d2b9be)

Een derde van de wereldbevolking doet het. Het heeft dramatische gevolgen voor het milieu, het klimaat, vrouwen en de gezondheid van 2,4 miljard mensen. En toch hebben we het er vrijwel nooit over: koken op open vuur. Luchtvervuiling is zo'n onderwerp dat je niet meer loslaat, als je de cijfers tot je laat doordringen. Ga maar na: de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie schat dat er tussen 2030 en 2050 ongeveer 250.000 mensen zullen sterven aan de gevolgen van klimaatverandering. Dat is enorm en verschrikkelijk, maar eigenlijk nog maar weinig vergeleken met de impact van luchtvervuiling. Want in dat laatste geval hebben we het namelijk over 10 miljoen doden per jaar. Niet over dertig jaar, maar nu al, ieder jaar weer. In een grote stad als Delhi verliezen mensen maar liefst tien jaar aan levensverwachting door het inademen van vervuilde lucht. Als de wereld verder opwarmt tot 2 graden hebben we het over 153 miljoen extra doden (!!!). Niet door overstromingen, droogtes, orkanen of tsunami's – maar door de extra luchtvervuiling die het verbranden van al die fossiele brandstoffen met zich mee brengt. Oftewel: eigenlijk is luchtvervuiling een nóg sterkere reden om over te stappen op groene energie. Maar naast het verbranden van kolen, olie en gas, is ook het binnenshuis verbranden van hout een gigantisch probleem. Deze week hebben we het erover met wetenschapper Esther Boudewijns, die onlangs een groot paper publiceerde in het prestigieuze tijdschrift The Lancet over de implementatie van 'schoon-kokenoplossingen' in armere landen. Want juist omdat het probleem zo groot is, zijn de oplossingen ook zo veelbelovend. Wie zich bezighoudt met schoon koken, strijdt niet alleen tegen luchtvervuiling, maar ook tegen ontbossing, klimaatopwarming en genderongelijkheid – het zijn namelijk vooral vrouwen die koken. We hebben het hier, kortom, over een win-win-win-winoplossing. Boudewijns vertelt over haar onderzoek en over de leidende rol die Nederland speelt in het – helaas – nog veel te kleine wereldje van schoon-kookactivisten. Als altijd zijn we benieuwd wat jullie vinden van deze aflevering. We zijn te bereiken op rudienfreddieshow@decorrespondent.nl Leesvoer bij deze aflevering: De studie 'Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of improved solid fuel cookstoves and clean fuels in low-income and middle-income countries: an umbrella review' (2022) in The Lancet, waarvan Boudewijns eerste auteur is. (corr.es/87561d) Het artikel 'Ten Million a Year' van David Wallace-Wells in de London Review of Books (corr.es/9289e4) en zijn klimaatboek The Uninhabitable Earth. (corr.es/ab74fa) De Internationale Klimaatstrategie van het kabinet-Rutte IV, waarin Nederland de ambitie uitspreekt om 100 miljoen mensen toegang te geven tot duurzame energie. (corr.es/d2b9be)

Writer and author of The Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran, Robin Wright says that after weeks of protest on the streets of Iran, “for the first time in human history, you're beginning to see a counter revolution ignited by women. ”  Later, despite the failure of the UN's leadership conference on climate change, New York Times science reporter David Wallace-Wells says, “we're moving much faster than most analysts projected a few years ago,” and says the climate crisis is not as bad as he thought when he wrote,”The Uninhabitable Earth” five years ago. 

En el marco de la COP27, la televisión europea ARTE difunde la serie documental Un Monde Nouveau  (Un Mundo Nuevo), del célebre ambientalista francés Cyril Dion. Dirigida por Thierry Robert, la serie se articula en tres episodios: Resistir, Adaptarse, Regenerar. Una serie que tomó tres años para hacerse, recorriendo 15 países y que busca cambiar el paradigma de nuestra civilización para salvar al planeta. Un Monde Nouveau, "Un Mundo Nuevo" es un documental que busca impactar pero a la vez dar esperanza mostrando iniciativas que se llevan a cabo en el mundo entero para tratar de revertir el proceso del calentamiento mundial. Escrito y narrado por el célebre medio ambientalista francés Cyril Dion y dirigido por Thierry Robert, esta serie pasa actualmente en el canal de televisión franco alemán ARTE pero puede verse por internet, con subtítulos en español y se está distribuyendo a otros canales del mundo. La serie documental Un Mundo Nuevo se plantea como un vasto programa para luchar contra el cambio climático y está articulado en tres capítulos: resistir, adaptarse, regenerar. El documental hace primero una constatación de la situación climática y se pregunta cómo se ha llegado a esta situación. ¿Cómo prepararse ante las catástrofes que se avecinan? ¿Cómo repensar nuestra sociedad? A través de 15 países, Cyril Dion, quien se hizo célebre por su documental Demain, entrevista personas que luchan contra la inacción climática de los estados, de las empresas, así también que trabajan para regenerar los bosques, los océanos o que llevan a cabo otras iniciativas para salvar al planeta. Entre las personalidades entrevistadas está David Wallace-Wells, autor del ensayo The Uninhabitable Earth publicado en la revista New York y que tuvo un fuerte impacto. Así también el ecologista Paul Hawken, pionero del concepto del desarrollo sustentable. Pero también jóvenes como el alemán Felix Finkbeiner quien desde los 9 años propuso plantar árboles para salvar al planeta. Ahora con 25 años de edad lleva a cabo proyectos de reforestación por el mundo, incluyendo Yucatán y el Estado de México a través de su iniciativa Plant-for-the-Planet. Fabrice Papillon es el productor de este ambicioso documental que tomó tres años para hacerse.  El explicó a RFI cuál es el propósito de esta ambiciosa serie documental. La serie documental Un Mundo Nuevo puede verse en el canal de televisión ARTE, pero también en el sitio internet de este canal. La serie cuenta con subtítulos en español. Y hay negociaciones en curso para la difusión de esta serie en América Latina. Otros temas: AntropOcéano: un libro sobre nuestros mares, escrito por la oceanógrafa Cristina Romera Castillo Sea of Shadows: un thriller documental sobre la vaquita marina

Listen to this episode from CLIMB by VSC on Spotify. In our latest episode of CLIMB by VSC, we speak with Tommy Leep, founding partner of Jetstream, where he invests in pre-seed climate sustainability and biodiversity startups. Tommy previously worked at AngelList, Haystack and Floodgate, and invested in startups like Robinhood, Patreon, Clubhouse and Mercury. In 2019 Tommy read The Uninhabitable Earth and realized that he needed to do something about climate change. He shifted his investing to focus on founders who were conscious of our society's impact on the planet and working toward a better future. Through Jetstream, he helps these founders get access to the people and resources they need to create a thriving planet. About VSC Ventures: For 20 years, our award-winning PR agency VSC has worked with innovative startups on positioning, messaging, and awareness and we are bringing that same expertise to help climate startups with storytelling and narrative building. Last year, general partners Vijay Chattha and Jay Kapoor raised a $21M fund to co-invest in the most promising startups alongside leading climate funds. Through the conversations on our show CLIMB by VSC, we're excited to share what we're doing at VSC and VSC Ventures on climate innovation with companies like Ample, Actual, Sesame Solar, Synop, Vibrant Planet, and Zume among many others.

David Wallace-Wells, the acclaimed science journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth, says the past few years have given him reason to feel both "buoyant optimism" and "abject despair" about the future of climate change. As the COP27 climate summit kicks into gear, we're speaking to Wallace-Wells about both — and we're going to start by talking about the good news. While we aren't currently on track to keep global warming down to the levels the scientific community has called for, the worst-case scenarios are also looking far less likely than they did even a few years ago. There's more and more evidence that the actions the world has taken so far really have made a difference — and that we still have significant capacity to determine the kind of world that lies ahead.

David Wallace-Wells (pictured) is known for his book "Uninhabitable Earth" and now, in The New York Times has written the article: "Beyond Catastrophe A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View ". In The Guardian, Damien Carrington tells readers: "World close to ‘irreversible' climate breakdown, warn major studies". Canary Media has gone live with: "Canary Live New York: Top 3 trends in New York climate and energy". And from Yale Climate Connections it is: "Latina leader wants to build a more inclusive climate movement". Again from The Guardian, it's: "Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place'". The Conversation tells us: "Farmers need certainty over emissions pricing – removing government from the equation might help". This time Jasper Jolly writes in The Guardian: "Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point', says IEA." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robert-mclean/message

Each week we're going to bring you some suggestions for your summer reading, taking a different category each time. This week Bob Johnstone of The Gutter Bookshop, joined Sean with his recommendations for science and nature reads. He recommend The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow, Wilding by Isabella Tree, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, Unwell Women : A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn,The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells,Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari,Silent Spring by Rachel Carson,Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

Each week we're going to bring you some suggestions for your summer reading, taking a different category each time. This week Bob Johnstone of The Gutter Bookshop, joined Sean with his recommendations for science and nature reads. He recommend The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow, Wilding by Isabella Tree, The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, Unwell Women : A Journey Through Medicine And Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn,The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells,Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari,Silent Spring by Rachel Carson,Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

Back in 2020, I wrote an article about some eye-popping new research on air pollution which found that the damage it is doing to human health is roughly twice as bad as previously thought, and moreover, that the economic benefits of pollution reduction vastly outweigh the costs of transitioning to clean energy.It seemed to me then that the findings should have gotten more attention in the press, and I wasn't the only person who thought so. Journalist David Wallace-Wells, who made a splash a few years ago with his terrifying book on climate change, The Uninhabitable Earth, also dove in to new air pollution research and produced a magisterial overview for the London Review of Books last year. Recently he revisited the subject for his New York Times newsletter, asking why social mobilization against climate change, which promises millions of deaths in decades, is so much greater than mobilization against air pollution, which kills 10 million a year today.It's a challenging question, and I'm not certain I have a great answer, so I wanted to talk to David about it — what the new research says about the mind-boggling scope and scale of air pollution’s damage to human welfare, how we ought to think about it relative to climate change, and what scares him most about the process of normalization that allows us to live with 10 million deaths a year. Get full access to Volts at www.volts.wtf/subscribe

He famously wrote the New York magazine essay that told us “it is worse, much worse, than you think” and painted an apocalyptic picture of an “unhabitable earth” by 2100. The essay, which became the #1 New York Times bestseller The Unhabitable Earth, singlehandedly shook the world into “OK, we're officially freaked out” mode.But five years on, is the climate emergency as bad as David Wallace-Wells initially portrayed? Will Manhattan be underwater? Will there be half as much food, twice as much war and hundreds of millions of climate refugees? David, now one of the most well-known climate voices in the world, joins me to adjust his initial prognosis. Strap in for this one…it's an important, confronting (and yet hopeful) ride.Show note for DWW:Read the original The Uninhabitable Earth essay hereOr get The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future on AmazonYou can sign up to David's New York Times newsletter hereFind out more about Sarah Wilson: www.sarahwilson.comSubscribe to Sarah's Substack newsletter: https://sarahwilson.substack.com/Get your copy of Sarah's book, This One Wild and Precious Life: https://amzn.to/3vs3tf2Connect on Instagram: www.instagram.com/_sarahwilson_ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In der Dauer von Episode 61 sind sechs (6) Tierarten ausgestorben. Im Grundgesetz steht: “Der Staat schützt auch in Verantwortung für die künftigen Generationen die natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und die Tiere im Rahmen der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung durch die Gesetzgebung und nach Maßgabe von Gesetz und Recht durch die vollziehende Gewalt und die Rechtsprechung.” (Artikel 20a GG). Warum tut sich dann so wenig?Die Folge in einem Satz: Jens fordert, jetzt das physikalisch Notwendige zu tun; Human kokettiert, ESG sei das neue Digital; Mary-Jane glaubt, die Angst vor sozialem Abstieg hindert offenen Diskurs und Handlung; und Patrick fragt sich, wie unsere post-apokalyptische Gesellschaftsstruktur aussehen wird.Shownotes:Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Rede beim Rio Summit, 1992, Video Scientists for Future, VideoJung & Naiv Interview mit EZB-Direktorin Isabel Schnabel, Video Wolfgang M. Schmitt & Stefan Schulz, Die Neuen Zwanziger, Podcast David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth, Buch Ugo Bardi, Der Seneca Effect, Buch Catherine Liu, Virtue Horders, Buch Dirk Steffens, Fritz Habekuß, Über-Leben, Buch Volker Quaschning, Cornelia Quaschning, Energierevolution, jetzt!, Buch Claudia Kemfert, Das fossile Imperium schlägt zurück, Buch Jeffrey D. Sachs, Das Ende der Armut Club of Rome, Homepage IPCC Berichte, Artikel Massenaussterben, Artikel auf FEDA Klimafolgen, Artikel in der ZEITWirtschaftsfolgen, Artikel der Süddeutschen Lobbyarbeit, Artikel Michael Bloss NetZero, McKinsey StudieVerantwortung: TOP CO₂ UnternehmenBiodiversität & Artensterben, Artikel in der Süddeutschen   

Dr. Shannon Westin discusses the topic of climate change in the operating room with Dr. Anaeze Offodile and Dr. Elizabeth Yates.   TRANSCRIPT   The guest on this podcast episode has no disclosures to declare. Dr. Shannon Westin: Hey everybody! Welcome back to JCO After Hours, a podcast where we get a little bit more intense, a little bit more specific about articles that are published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. My name is Shannon Westin, and it is my honor to serve as the social media editor for the JCO. I'm an associate professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and a gynecologic oncologist. Today, we are going to be discussing a really exciting paper which was published in the March online JCO. It's a Comments and Controversies piece called, “Prescriptions for Mitigating Climate Change-Related Externalities in Cancer Care: A Surgeon's Perspective.” I have several guests with me today, none of whom have any conflict of interest. The first is Dr. Anaeze Offodile, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery, as well as in the Department of Health Services Research at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as the Executive Director of Clinical Transformation at MD Anderson. He is the senior author on the paper, so he will have a lot to offer here. But we're also accompanied by Dr. Elizabeth Yates, who has the title of clinical fellow in surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, but tells me she's a rising PGY 4 resident, which makes it even more impressive that she is already published on the role of the surgeon in climate change. And so, we're so honored to have her with us today to share her perspectives as well. Welcome both of you. Thank you for being here. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: Happy to be here. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: Thanks so much for having us. Dr. Shannon Westin: So, I'm definitely someone that has been interested in climate change for some time, and living in the state of Texas, does what I can to rally the political climate here. But I was really intrigued because I never really thought of it in terms of what we do in the operating room. So, I'd love for each of you to give just a little bit of background on your careers and how you kind of got involved with this idea of climate change and environmental sustainability here in the operating room and in medical care? Do you want to start, Anaeze? Dr. Anaeze Offodile: Liz can start first. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: Absolutely! So, I actually came at it from an interesting perspective, I have always been interested in issues of resource distribution and disparities. And when I was in medical school, I started to think about these issues pretty deeply, especially because my younger brother was at the University of Michigan at the same time as I was, studying Environmental Science for his undergraduate and kept nagging in my ear about this problem of climate change and why I wasn't thinking about it as a doctor. And with my kind of ongoing interest in disparities, I came to realize and become compassionate about the role that climate change will play in driving the existing disparities that we see both nationally and globally. And I realized that nobody was really talking about it yet, at least in the surgical field. It had started to permeate some of the medicine and subspecialties, but really, there wasn't a conversation in our world yet. It became all the more relevant to me because I did see this dual relationship where not only do the downstream factors of climate change, like heat waves and major storms, impact our patients' access to care and their outcomes, but on the flip side, we contribute to climate change, because the delivery of surgical care, particularly in high-income countries, is so energy intensive and so wasteful. And so, I felt like if any clinician has a role in this space to really lead and change the narrative, it would be us as surgeons. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: It's really interesting to listen to Liz's journey to this issue, which affects all of us. I came at it from the micro level, bottom-up level. So, when I was a fellow about four years ago, under the mentorship of Nancy Perrier, we launched and have since scaled, I don't know if you're aware of this, Shannon, so the 'Know Your Costs' program. For the audience, this is a project at MD Anderson where we really try to minimize cost variability and waste in the operating room by providing a feedback tool to surgeons that sort of made them more conscious about the spending directly attributable to disposable supplies, implants, devices in the OR. One direct outcome of the project that we found was that actually narrowing the variability in these disposable instruments, supplies implants surely had no impact on the outcome, but also got sort of the cost structure of what we do in the OR down. So, that's the value-based care proposition. And in doing this work as I dug more into literature, I learned as we so highlighted in the article, my co-authors and I, that actually the perioperative environment is a major driver of waste in the hospital setting. I think that recognition certainly led to this work, which we're very glad that JCO looked upon favorably to champion. Dr. Shannon Westin: Yeah, I love 'Know Your Cost'. My fellows make fun of me, because I always take the electrosurgery devices, they're the cheapest. And they're like, ‘Oh, you're using the Costco version!'. And I'm like, ‘You know what? We're reducing costs. So, just hold it a little bit longer there, and you're gonna be fine.' So, I was really struck by one of the first sentences out of the gate in your commentary that the healthcare industry accounts for roughly 8.5% of total GHG emissions in the United States, the most in the world in per-capita and absolute terms, I mean, to me, that was so eye-opening within the first few sentences. What are some of the other major takeaways that you hope that readers of the JCO get from this piece? Anaeze, I think we can start with you and then I'd be interested to hear your perspectives as well, Liz? Dr. Anaeze Offodile: So, I will say, a couple of high-level, and I can touch on the sort of specific prescription that we put forward, but I think the big takeaway is, one, is healthcare has a certain moral imperative to keep our contributions to sort of environmental sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, to control that, there's a moral imperative to this work, right? One, climate change effects are differential. So, the vulnerable populations, like Liz said, tend to suffer the worst. So, when you think about communities and countries in the global south, they bear the brunt of this, not industrialized nations. And number two, our activity directly maps to greenhouse gas emissions. And as surgeons, the relationship is much more direct. So, carbon-intensive procedures like the robot, the perioperative environment, and the supplies, the waste, and the supply chain that sort of feeds into that. So, those are the things high-level that I want to call out. And many ways this paper is intended to start a conversation that will be ongoing amongst the community, the academy, and I'll say in both surgical and medical respect: to what extent do we take ownership of this problem and contribute to the meaningful solutions of the problems? And I can certainly talk about some of the recommendations we put forward, but I think that's the key takeaway. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: Yeah, as not an author, but a reader of this paper. I really thought it summarized the high-level ideas, and really did serve as a conversation starter in the best way. What I really liked, and I try to strive for in my own work at our hospital, and we implement sustainability initiatives, was the perspective that you took coming from more of a cost-saving perspective initially, because I think people have a misconception if they do ever think about sustainability and care delivery, that somehow quality has to be compromised for sustainability - to go green, you have to do less - and that's not necessarily true. And you really highlighted a lot of opportunities in the four domains you emphasize in this paper about how you can change the way your system works, or the choices you make, for the devices you use or the energy supply, without actually compromising outcomes for patients, that we can maintain a high level of quality that makes them smarter choices for our systems to also be more sustainable. And then a lot of the time there are cost savings. It could be a triple win but we just need to put more time and effort into the surgical world thinking about these issues. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: Liz, thank you so much. What we tried to articulate was, there is no trade-off between planetary health and value-based care and high-quality care. I think those two are actually synergistic, and certainly mutually reinforcing. So, that's the one thing we tried to do. I'm glad it came out to push forward. Dr. Shannon Westin: I was joking about our bipolar use and such, but that's really what I'm trying to teach our fellows is that you can do the right work with an instrument that doesn't cost as much. And in this case, the robot is perfect. I was reading that as a robotic surgeon who also does laparoscopy and I thought, ‘Gosh! When I'm making these decisions, this is such a trickle-down effect.' And so, I really do think that I'm interested in strategies to offset those things. Because sometimes, for us in gynecologic oncology, the robot is a superior tool as far as visualization and also surgeon back pain and such. But you really have to understand that trade-off or what else you're impacting. So, I guess, what can we do with the framework of this piece in mind, what can the clinical care providers really do across the country to meaningfully address climate change and improve overall healthcare sustainability? Dr. Anaeze Offodile: So, I will talk from the surgical perspective and maybe I'll point to Liz for a broader outlook on this, but we touched on four main buckets or domains of sub-activity. So, one is the OR environment, right? Thinking about the type of anesthetic gasses that we use, thinking about energy efficient lighting, thinking about the heating ventilation AC, HVAC, can we sort of bake in preventative maintenance on a scheduled time, and using things called setbacks. So, for instance, don't have it run overnight when no one is using the OR. For the most part, there are always emergency cases, but when there's low foot traffic, like nighttime, could we not have the HVAC running during that time period. So, some things like I'll say, low hanging fruit that we can do in respect to the OR environment. And as we think about building new ORs in new hospitals, let's bake in sort of an environmental impact assessment as you sort of commissioned these new environments. So, that's one. Number two, the supply chain and thinking about streamlining the disposables, the gowns, the implants that we use, and really thinking about the procurement and sourcing of these things, taking a climate change lens to picking vendors, picking partners, almost sort of requesting an audit for these vendors with respect to how they create these goods that are sort of being engineered for the environment. The third thing is actually waste. And thinking about sort of the amount of waste that comes from the cost of surgical care – Can we lean more towards reusable as opposed to disposables? Can we think about reprocessing devices sort of like, the world is a circular economy now? Can we think about those types of initiatives with respect to waste? And the last two are value-based care, specifically thinking about low-value surgical care, really that's another way of saying activity that doesn't track to meaningful clinical outcomes. So, that activity, if we're to reframe it , creates carbon that worsens our greenhouse gas emissions, but doesn't track to any meaningful benefit to patients' society. So, low-value care, de-escalating that, or de-implementing that certainly could help with our greenhouse gas profile. And lastly, COVID has been a major force in functioning telemedicine. Can we think about telemedicine in a way that optimizes traffic, and transportation, while keeping cost structure down and thinking about greenhouse gas emissions? So, those are the four or five main elements that we've sort of proposed in our paper. I'll say pieces of this can be contextualized in a medical context. Waste can be put in the medical oncology lens as is virtual care, and as is low-value practices. So, that's how we thought about it for this paper. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: It really nicely summed up the categories of areas for implementation. So, I think I'll keep my comments focused, one, on what does it mean to actually implement that kind of work, and then scale back and what can we do, as you highlighted more broadly as clinicians. But as someone who's really started this work, and we initiated what we call 'Watching Our Waste' program across our procedural spaces at our hospital, and working with my mentor, Dr. Winn who's a vascular surgeon has been really beneficial, because having a clinical voice start to push and champion these ideas, is really meaningful. And when it doesn't come from the administration or top down, it feels a lot more homegrown, and people accept it a lot more quickly on the clinical side, rather than an eco-green team being purely administrators and people who work behind desks. You know, having boots on the ground, saying that this is important, and champion ways to integrate it into our workflow without compromising efficiency or quality of care has been really meaningful. And for anyone who's starting these initiatives, I would say the gateway for anyone who wants to really tackle this, I would recommend a waste audit. Just start with your floor, your OR, whatever your clinical area practice is, your outpatient clinic, and see what kind of waste you make in a day. The efforts you put towards that in terms of meeting your environmental services people, meeting Environmental Affairs, going through the trash, understanding what your use of various supplies is, gives you so much information and such a strong foundation as an easy thing to do as a first step and you'll know where to go from there. It'll really guide your next steps. And as you scale out, and if you get more involved in this work, what I've come to find is the administrators are looking for a clinical voice. There's the policy being pushed at a national level, to start really looking at healthcare and its carbon emissions, and there isn't a lot of expertise, and making sure that this kind of effort and these policies and the implementation of more sustainable practices align with clinical care is a priority and a growing one at the hospital level. And they need clinical voices to actually understand how this is going to work and move this forward and in an effective way. So, if you're interested, I would just highlight that this is an opportune time to get involved. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: Can I make one somewhat controversial comment, I hope it's not that controversial. You know, Shannon, as you think about the demographic shifts in the next 15 years, millennials will be the dominant healthcare workforce and the dominant patient population, right? And as you think about awareness, I will say, as you go down in the age levels, I'll say anxiety, apprehension, and more optimism increase as you go down. So, as this population ages into the workforce and the patient mix, I will reckon that they'll begin to demand more of these initiatives from their health systems, both, like I mentioned, first of all, the moral imperative, but also, as most hospitals are the biggest employers in most towns in this country. So, I think there'll be a clarion call that gets louder and louder and louder and louder. So, in many ways, I think beginning to think about these issues now is probably the way to go. And in many ways feels inevitable to me. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: There's some great data to back that up. If anyone's interested, the Yale Center - I have no affiliation, this is a purely altruistic endorsement - but the Yale Center for Climate Change Communication has really impressive data that completely backs up everything that Anaeze has just said, he couldn't be more spot on. Dr. Shannon Westin: So, we need to be focusing on this. And I guess, balancing on that kind of thinking of the upcoming generation, clinicians, and patients, is there an opportunity to build a career that is a balance between climate change and clinical care? Dr. Elizabeth Yates: I sure hope so! Dr. Shannon Westin: Liz, this is your thing, right? Dr. Elizabeth Yates: There better be! Dr. Shannon Westin: But how do we operationalize this better? Is this something that should be part of the medical school curriculum? Where can we make an impact? Obviously, you all are doing this great work, but how can we get beyond our centers? Dr. Elizabeth Yates: I think one of the things I've learned in my two, kind of, research years during my residency, and really focusing deeply on this topic, is that there's a real dearth of data-driven work in this space both on quantifying the impacts of climate change downstream on our patient outcomes. And on the flip side, how to make surgical care or medical care more sustainable broadly. There are methods that are incredibly applicable to this space. One that many sustainability providers will know about is called lifecycle analysis, where you can actually quantify your impact on carbon emissions with different changes in which products you buy, and how you implement your systems. And being able to produce that kind of data for our clinical providers, whether it be in your outpatient clinic, or in the OR, so you can make more informed choices that align quality with sustainability is a really important next step. And understanding how to implement that kind of research needs a clinical voice. It can't just be these kinds of environmental practitioners who don't have a sense of how clinical care works on a real day-to-day basis. So, having an increasing number of providers who are interested in this overlap to inform that research, I think, I sure hope, is going to be a valuable contribution to the academic literature because I'm slowly building my career upon it, and it's quite the gamble. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: No, it's a pretty safe bet, Liz. I think as a clinician, academic or community-based, late early career at this point, so the way I think about moving forward will be one, Liz just talk about scholarship, right? Both empirical data-driven work, as in thought pieces, like the JCO paper that has a policy inclination, I think we need much, much more of it. And there's increasing activity in this space, but nowhere near commensurate with the gravity of the problem. So, that's number one. I think number two is actually just advocacy, right? In the same way that surgeons are very compelling and effective advocates for gun violence, for COVID, and related science for health equity. I do think there's a huge space for physicians, surgeons, medical oncologists, and primary care doctors in this space from an advocacy standpoint. I think some of the more productive arguments have touched on the fact that, typically in healthcare, the largest employers, I mean, healthcare is, paid on the year, almost 20% of our GDP, of our economic output, is a huge chunk of US healthcare, so, we have viable legitimacy to sort of have this bully pulpit on this issue. That's number two. And number three is about clinical practice. I think one thing about climate change is the ultimate tragedy of the commons, right? So, I'm like, how can one person make a difference? I think if everyone has a position, nothing's going to happen. I think the key thing is that we all begin to move in this direction, as I like to say, ‘Incremental change is not insignificant change.' There's certainly the proverbial 'burning platform' right now on this topic. I think as we begin to have our clinical practice, each of us individually be more aligned either from an adaptation standpoint or mitigation standpoint, where we're sort of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I think that is a huge, huge benefit to us for future generations. So, let's hope with the three main ways practice, advocacy, and scholarship get built into our careers. Dr. Shannon Westin: Yeah, not to get into a total mentoring conversation here but Liz, there's a huge opportunity for policy and through our own home organization, ASCO, there's a policy fellowship, there are lots of opportunities that I think that you'll find your academic career could be supported by. So, just a little off note. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: I'll preview the recruitment. Dr. Shannon Westin: So, we'll talk about some inspiration as we close this conversation. You guys have kind of peppered this throughout, but maybe just summarize a little bit, what are you doing in your own practice, as well as in your lives, like out of hospital lives to contribute to these efforts? Dr. Elizabeth Yates: I try to live my life with a perspective of sustainability kind of in every aspect, but with an informed perspective because I really do believe that quality of life, just like the quality of care, does not need to be compromised in order to be green. And so, being really informed about what choices in your life and your actual career have a true impact, and an impact that can scale is really important. So, do I try to buy the least plastic that I can? Certainly. Do I kill myself to be completely waste-free? I do not. I try to amplify the need for these kinds of interventions across my own little local network, both socially and wider in my own career. And as I've started to pull this into my workplace, I was apprehensive about what the kind of reaction was going to be from pushing a sustainability perspective. I've been really pleasantly surprised and impressed with how many people in our workplace already, like me, are doing what they can at home, and just don't know how to start in the workplace, especially in a hospital. And so, being that champion, and having that voice to start, wherever you are, whether it be a small project or a big policy initiative, whatever you can take on, I would say is kind of the inspirational next step and as you see the reaction of your colleagues, I hope, like me, you will continue to be inspired to do more. Dr. Shannon Westin: Great! Anaeze? Dr. Anaeze Offodile: So, I'll lead off with a plug. I read this book called The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. And I thought that book is the most compelling argument that we just think about climate change. It really created a sense of urgency within me. It came out about two and a half, maybe three years ago – compelling read. So, I'll just sort of start off with that. There are many sources that are available now, I think the National Academy of Medicine, they have a grand challenge and a national collaboration on decarbonizing the US healthcare sector, and they have a bunch of resources on their website. So, I'll certainly point many people to that. What I do in my day-to-day life and the way I've thought about this is what behaviors can I entrench in the long term. I think human beings, physicians, in particular, I'd say, we're high resistance pathways, old habits tend to come back to the surface. So, I've really focused in the last few years on embedding certain climate-sensitive practices in my life that I hope to continue moving forward. So, one of them is a) I drive less. Now, it's not super easy in Houston, Shannon, as you are aware, but I happen to live near the light rail. And for the last nine months, I've been taking the train in, every morning to work to and fro. That allows me to zone out. I put a podcast on, ASCO podcast, After Hours. Dr. Shannon Westin: Love it! Love it! Dr. Anaeze Offodile: So, that's one. Number two is just easy. My purchasing choices have a climate lens. So, in many ways, you could say what you buy reveals your preferences like nothing else. So, when I buy a new radio or a new TV, I look for the sticker that says EPA certified. It's a little thing but it's something that I'm able to maintain for the last 2-3 years now. So, I'll say, being informed, changing my commuting habits, I curtail my spending habits, also like the ways I'm just really embedding this into my daily life. Dr. Shannon Westin: That's great! I think there are so many great resources that you guys have mentioned, so, I hope our listeners will check it out. I will put a plug in. I love to compost. It's super easy to do, and you can use it to grow food and beautiful flowers. And so, that is something that my husband and I have been doing for years now. So, another simple little thing. I mean, you can get everything online. It's magical. So, alright guys. Well, this has been incredible. I have so enjoyed getting to chat with both of you and I hope our listeners have the same feeling. Just as a reminder, this article can be found online in the March version of the JCO, “Prescriptions for Mitigating Climate Change-Related Externalities in Cancer Care: A Surgeon's Perspective.” Many thanks to my guests, and you all have a great day. I hope to see you next time. Dr. Anaeze Offodile: I'm happy to be here. Thank you so much for having us. Dr. Elizabeth Yates: Thank you so much!   The purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.    

Today is Earth Day, a good occasion as any to reflect on the emergencies the planet currently faces. First, Harriet A. Washington, author of A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, talks to NPR's Sarah McCammon about the long-term damage environmental issues can have on brain development—particularly for people of color. Next, the author David Wallace-Wells talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about his book The Uninhabitable Earth, which is a lot more hopeful than the title might suggest. He runs through the worst-case scenarios climate change could wreak, and why every effort we make against further global warming matters.

David Wallace-Wells, author of the best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth and New York magazine's editor-at-large, wields vivid language that makes people pay attention. But his writing isn't hyperbole. Wallace-Wells's clear-eyed, cinematic storytelling provides coherence and context around some of today's most complex issues, from California wildfires to Covid-19. His writing demonstrates his special knack for synthesizing information and rare ability to draw conclusions in ways that offer viscerally felt, nuanced insights.A large part of Wallace-Wells's appeal stems from how he straddles two dimensions at once. He unpacks pressing topics by offering of-the-moment analysis while also considering the long-term consequences of such data. Late last year, for example, he wrote frequently about the Omicron variant's impact—but also compared it to other pandemic data, and detailed unsettling projections about the variant's protracted effects. In 2019, his New York piece on the wildfires in California traced their devastating toll; he also contextualized it, within the climate crisis, as a once-manageable occurrence that has evolved into a continual threat.On this episode, Wallace-Wells talks with Andrew about society's troubling capacity for normalization, drama as a means to stir people to climate action, and why—despite all of the above—he's feeling optimistic for the future.Special thanks to our Season 5 sponsor, L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. Show notes:Full transcript@dwallacewells[13:48] The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming [32:34] “We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time”[35:53] “Can Anything Stop the Omicron Wave?”[44:05] “Ten Million a Year”

Nancy Hsu is a climate change avocate, linguist (Mandarin & English), mother fo two AND dentist. Nancy comes and speak with us about climate change, the effects on the world and what we can do about it in the short and long term. Is long term disaster unavoidable at this stage? Is it too late? Does reducing your carbon footprint as an individual actually make a difference in the grand schem of things? Let's find out! My social media links: https://www.facebook.com/nancyhsuhu/ https://www.instagram.com/hus.your.climatemama/ Books I mentioned in the podcast: The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells The Parents' Guide to Climate Revolution by Mary DeMocker Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson Plastic Free by Beth Terry Food is the Solution by Matthew Prescott What a Waste by Jess French The Lorax by Dr. Seuss A good one I'm reading via audiobook this week: Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe Some organizations: - Climate Reality Project (https://www.climaterealityproject.org/) - Citizens Climate Lobby (https://citizensclimatelobby.org/) - 350 (https://350.org/) Mandaboo iOS tinyurl.com/iosMandaboo Android tinyurl.com/AndroidMandaboo @MandabooGame Website www.mandarinmonkey.com Business Course www.mandarinmonkey.com/product/inten…iness-course/ Intensive Course mandarinmonkey.com/intensive-course/ Awesome Blog mandarinmonkey.com/blog/ HIGH FIVE FRIDAYS MAILING LIST mandarinmonkey.com/high-5-fridays/ Get Amazing Mandarin tools www.patreon.com/mandarinmonkey Skritter - Learn to write Chinese skritter.com?ref=mandarinmonkey Use promoCode: MANDARINMONKEY for 10% off everything Discord discord.gg/KHjF7NNq8d The Mandarin Monkey Podcast is a Mandarin Chinese and English Edutainment podcast designed to entertain and educate. Tom (Native English speaker) and Ula (Native Mandarin Chinese speaker from Taiwan) discuss various topics from life to science, from movies to relationships. Also raising three multiracial children they discuss the challenges of raising bilingual children and with learning Mandarin, English and Taiwanese at home. The Mandarin Monkey podcast is a Chinglish (Chinese and English) podcast which also has a Mandarin story and vocabulary review session in every episode. Also, they have guests on the show from different backgrounds, linguists, authors, creators all the way to doctors. Hope you enjoy. #mandarinmonkey #chinglish #Mandarinpodcast #Edutainment

Megyn Kelly is joined by Bjorn Lomborg, author of "False Alarm," and David Wallace-Wells, author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," for a wide-ranging conversation and debate about climate change - realism and alarmism. Topics include the worst and best case climate change scenarios, whether climate change is the most important challenge facing humanity or not, America's impact vs. China and India's impact, debating our tangible climate future, celebrity hypocrisy, whether extreme weather events can be connected to climate change, what average Americans can do vs. what governments need to do, the true costs, how innovation can help, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Megyn Kelly is joined by Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, and David Wallace-Wells, editor-at-large for New York Magazine and author of "The Uninhabitable Earth," to talk about the real risk kids face when it comes to COVID, fear-mongering and messaging problems about the pandemic, the politicization of COVID from both sides, how best to assess risk, the status of therapeutics, whether masks really work, what happens with the Build Back Better bill and Sen. Joe Manchin's next move, President Biden's lagging leadership and strategic mistakes, media trying to cover for Biden, Hillary Clinton's embarrassing reading of her unused victory speech, the transgender swimmer breaking collegiate records, women being culturally pushed out of society, the state of vaccine mandates, and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

This week. Brie talks climate with David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine Editor at Large and author of The Uninhabitable Earth -- one of the most sobering climate reads out there. Wallace-Wells helps Brie unpack what exactly is in the infrastructure bills with respect to climate, and asks whether AOC's claim that "America's back" at the COP 26 climate conference is a wee bit premature. Brie & Wallace-Wells also discuss what is and isn't being achieved at the Glasgow climate conference, whether climate goals are reachable in the absence of any global accountability mechanism, and the case climate reparations. What does the global north owe the global south, and is there any way the global north will pay absent pitchforks and revolution? Finally, we close out this week's public episode with an interview with one of the climate protestors who famously blocked Joe Manchin's Maserati last week. Kidus Girma, fresh off a two week hunger strike, talks climate strategy for the future, and what parties eager to prevent the end of the world as we know it can do. Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock our full premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast Subscribe to Bad Faith on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Produced by Ben Dalton (@wbend). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

It's no wonder so many people feel helpless about averting climate catastrophe. This is the era of dire warnings from many scientists and increasing natural disasters, record-breaking temperatures and rising tides. Fossil-fuel executives testify before Congress while politicians waver on whether they'll support urgently needed changes to make American infrastructure sustainable. Thousands of youth activists at the Glasgow climate talks this week demonstrated for action from world leaders whose words convey the seriousness of the emergency but whose actions against major carbon contributors are lacking.But, as host Jane Coaston says, “as fun as doomerism is, doomerism doesn't do anything.” So what is an individual to do?Recycle? Compost? Give up meat or flying or plastic straws? Protest in the streets?To parse which personal actions matter and which don't, Jane is joined by the climate activist and author Genevieve Guenther, who argues that for the wealthier citizens of the world, there are real steps that can be taken right away to help fight the current and impending climate catastrophes. Guenther lists them according to one's ability, time and resources.Also joining the debate is the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” David Wallace-Wells, who argues that while individual behavior is a good start, it won't bring the change needed; only large-scale political action will save us. In this episode, Guenther and Wallace-Wells disagree about extinction and blame, but they agree that when individual political pressure builds into an unignorable movement, once-impossible-to-imagine solutions will be the key to saving our future.Mentioned in this episode:David Wallace-Wells for New York magazine, “The Uninhabitable Earth”Auden Schendler's guest essay “Worrying About Your Carbon Footprint Is Exactly What Big Oil Wants You to Do”Jason Mark for Sierra, “Yes, Actually, Individual Responsibility Is Essential to Solving the Climate Crisis”

Christian Hernandez is one of the founding partners of 2150, a venture capital firm dedicated to backing startups that are reinventing how cities are built, run, and maintained - with a particular focus on sustainability and reducing carbon emissions. In this conversation, we talk about the role that venture capital and startups have to play in addressing the climate crisis. We discuss the most promising areas where startups can make a difference, why climate change is a national security issue, and much more.Enjoy this conversation with Christian HernandezIn the discussion, Christian recommends several books including: All Hell Breaking Loose, Uninhabitable Earth, and How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. You can read Christian's blog posts here.-----------------Thanks to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show. You can learn more about Entrepreneur First at www.joinef.com and subscribe to my weekly newsletter at tib.matthewclifford.com

Episode 54 is coming from the vaults as I interviewed fellow activist Paul McCormack Cooney a few months ago. Paul is another absolutely wonderful human I got to know through Extinction Rebellion. He recently started a blog called Climate Dad which despite being a work in progress, I definitely recommend checking out! And you can follow Paul on Twitter @PaulMcCC or Instagram @climatedad.ie.We cover some everyday topics like parenting, but we also touch on the ever-lasting, controversial CETA, a trade agreement you may have heard of… Have a listen and let me know what you think![04:15] A bit about Paul & what sparked his eco consciousness.[10:10] Cool Planet & Extinction Rebellion.[18:00] Linking Paul's work in the Pension sector to our climate action perception.[23:30] Starting his blog, Climate Dad.[25:35] Talking to his kids about Climate Change.[31:35] Dealing with burnout.[34:50] A quick guide to CETA.[41:30] Random questions!As mentioned, CETA is a big, complicated topic but I recommend checking out Paul's blogpost on it, and searching and signing all the petitions you can find about it, & emailing TDs.Also mentioned:Al Gore Inconvenient Truth.David Wallace Wells article The Uninhabitable Earth.YouTube Interview with David Wells and Michael Man.Shannon LNG.Greta Saves the World game.I Am Greta Documentary.Kiss The Ground Documentary. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/bookofleaves. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justin Winters (pictured) is the co-founder of One Earth and the writer behind the piece: "Protecting cultural and biological diversity is central to solving climate change"; Halllie Golden writes on The Guardian - "Lawsuit challenges Biden plan to sell oil and gas leases in Gulf of Mexico"; From The Melbourne Age we hear from Mike Foley - "Urban Australia pays: Barnaby Joyce names his price for net-zero commitment"; Another co-founder of One Earth, Karl Burkart that - "Enough with the ruin porn. It's time for climate advocacy to move in a new direction"; Inside Clean Energy reports - "Inside Clean Energy: In California, the World's Largest Battery Storage System Gets Even Larger"; In another story from Inside Climate News, Bob Berwyn writes - "In the Arctic, Less Sea Ice and More Snow on Land Are Pushing Cold Extremes to Eastern North America"; CNN says - " After Ida's remnants kill dozens in the East, NYC mayor says cities need to prepare differently for increasingly intense storms"; The Saturday Paper reports - "Why your current car may be the last fossil-fuel vehicle you own"; Another Medium story tells readers - "Finding Hope in the Face of Climate Change"; "Gladstone has Queensland's worst air quality", according to Stuart Layt from the Brisbane Times. Here we are told "Eat Meat, But Without Crippling Climate Anxiety"; Enrique Dans tells us - "The heat wave lottery: we're all losers"; And, finally, there is the review by Jéssica Oliveira of the book, "Uninhabitable Earth". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World". Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/climateconversations

We conclude with Part two of our interview with David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Part one of our chat with journalist and author of the book The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Author David Wallace-Wells started his 2019 book "The Uninhabitable Earth" with the sentence: "It's worse, much worse, than you think." He joins us to talk about the current climate situation. And, a California robotics company has developed a high-tech brace that could help millions of people in the U.S. with osteoarthritis of the knee. Journalist Jon Kalish has the report.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we at last conclude our series on Final Fantasy VI. We give our takeaways and then turn to some of the mountain of feedback that's been piling up. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Issues covered: June says hello, developing deep character backstories, differing combat mechanics for each character, being pushed to mix parties at the end of the game, full world state changes, going against the grain, going dark places, getting a lot out of their engine and their small set of sprites, stretching beyond your audience's expectations, the alienness of opera, merging exploration with linear story, not knowing what order the story might come in, storylets and minimum expectations of how much game you get, Brett's Book Recommendation, dealing with the end of the world, having trouble getting past an early fight, a strange fan theory, having lots of story and wanting to split the characters, cautioning against reading too much into "original plans," marketing input, the contrasts of Terra and Celes, games as products of their constraints, the business constraints of a changing technology base with many developers, Terra's special ability, input lag in the Anthology, more about the weird Relm sketch glitz, how tools lag, higher fan expectations, the slowing of velocity with each generation, going towards the lowest common denominator or what we know works. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Sebastian Deken, biostats, Chrono Trigger, Baldur's Gate, BioWare, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Ultima (series), Gold Box (series), Wizardry, Dungeons & Dragons, SNES, Batman (obliquely), Shadow of the Colossus, God of War (series), Deus Ex, The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, Death Stranding, Logan Wells, Skyrim, Star Wars, Sega, Phantasy Star, Wes from DFW, Ted Turner, The Museum of Film and Television, Mikael Danielsson, Sam, Johnny Pockets, Valheim, Cyberpunk, The Witcher III, Marvel, Wonder Woman, John Romero, DOOM (1993), Quake, Stardew Valley, Ratchet & Clank, PS3, Hideo Kojima, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: Ratchet & Clank (first level) Links: An Ultima-te fail Podcast rec from Johnny Pockets Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

David Wallace-Wells is no stranger to contemplating the most disruptive and devastating outcomes of the climate crisis. His pivotal 2019 book, The Uninhabitable Earth, and 2017 article of the same name detailed some of the worst disasters that awaited humanity if action on climate was further delayed. Still, in 2021, even he's surprised by what he's seeing unfold. Record floods, out of control wildfires, and sweltering heatwaves are all placing constant pressure on nations and delivering tragic outcomes around the globe. "We are already not prepared for the warming we have today," Wallace-Wells told us.  In this wide-ranging conversation, Wallace-Wells talks about his new piece "How To Live In A Climate 'Permanent Emergency,'" how this year's unprecedented climate catastrophes should shape adaptation measures immediately, how his thinking has changed since the publishing of The Uninhabitable Earth, what he thought about the recent leaked IPCC report, and what he hopes global leaders will do to address climate change at the upcoming COP26 and beyond. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly": https://theclimateweekly.substack.com/ As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group. Check out our updated website!   Further Reading/Listening Dr. Thomas Lovejoy on Avoiding Catastrophic Biodiversity Loss in the Amazon Parts of the Amazon Go From Absorbing Carbon Dioxide to Emitting It The DeSmog Team on the COVID-19 and Climate Denial Connection

I didn’t think of how small my building’s elevators were when I bought a sofa after moving into my current apartment. It didn’t fit. The deliverymen tried to bring it up the stairs too. They made the first landing, but couldn’t make the turn to go up the next flight.They had to take it back. I ended up paying a $300 restocking fee plus big tips for the deliverymen’s extra efforts. Plus I lost weeks with no sofa. Now I know my home’s limits. Living within them is no problem when I know them, only when I didn’t. A few minutes of measurement and geometry could have saved me that trouble and improved my life.Can homo sapiens’ elevator, also known as Earth, fit us all in? As with my sofa, maybe a bit of calculation is worth saving the trouble of finding out if our sofa can fit. We’re past the point of eyeballing it. Our sofa is civilization and billions of lives.I doubt even those who study sustainability most can answer Important questions likeCan fusion save us? Will it?What works between solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, and other options? What doesn’t? Why not?What unintended side-effects are we missing?Do we risk losing civilization? If so, how great is the risk?If we take the gloves off, can geoengineering and other last-ditch efforts work?How hard will saving it be?What do we have to do to make it?These questions have answers, whether we find them out or not. There are a lot of books on the environment. I’ve read a lot of them. Most just describe our situation and what will happen if we don’t fix it. Some talk about what we can do, but they don’t help us understand. They don’t describe the patterns, just the results or instruction. We have to trust the writer.We’ve all heard to eat less meat. How much less? Will all the things they tell us to do solve the problems? How can I tell? What if I don’t eat less meat? Between eating meat or not, why can’t I see any difference in the world? Should I bother trying or just enjoy life to the max?We’re just told the problems and what to do. Maybe school should have taught us but it didn’t. After decades of poor science education, few teachers know how to teach science. They spout facts and instruction. Most analysis and activism is done without context or knowing nature’s patterns, based on feelings. Some envision a world of 10 billion thriving, others a collapse well before.Sustainability leadership is my life passion and frankly I don’t find most resources on the environment useful or readable. From the IPCC report Greta Thunberg gave to Congress to An Inconvenient Truth to articles suggesting “one little thing you can do for the environment,” they describe results and tell us what to do. They don’t help us understand beyond “coral reefs are bleaching” and oversimplifications like “CO2 acts like a blanket.” We have to take their word things like biodiversity is good and pollution is bad.Even knowing all the data doesn’t tell us the patterns. Will buying an electric vehicle matter? Does flying matter? How much? Enough to save lives? How can I tell, or do I have to take your word for it? Most of all, what about when they clash with other values? What if someone else says jobs or energy security is more important? Is there conflict? If so, how do we resolve it? What if we don’t want to emit greenhouse gases but our mother is sick, flying distance away? Or we feel our job depends on it? What about someone else saying the economy depends on my buying more stuff?Only knowing data but not patterns, we can’t think or decide for ourselves. We throw up our hands. For generations we’ve said we’d act and in fact we have, yet we keep lowering Earth’s capacity to sustain life and society. Could our ignorance be causing our attempts at solutions to augment the problems? Might our current attempts at solutions be exacerbating the problems. Are we on a road to hell paved with good intentions?A New HopeTom Murphy’s new book, Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, changes all that. It empowers us to understand, think, and act for ourselves.Murphy earned his PhD at Caltech and teaches at UC San Diego. A decade ago he started the Do The Math blog, where he did more than answer the questions above. He showed how he found the answer so you can too, so you can think for yourself. I called it the best site on the internet (tied with Low Tech Magazine).Murphy’s sofa-doesn’t-fit-in-the-elevator moment came in 2006, shortly after moving to San Diego, considering the value of his home. He wrote:I pored over articles on the matter, and found two camps. One camp provided rafts of alarming quantitative analysis of the peril: sub-prime lending, soaring price-to-income ratios, unprecedented unaffordability by average families, vulnerability to any weakness in other sectors. The other camp said that the housing market was manifesting a new normal, that San Diego’s universal appeal would prevent a price drop, that scary lending practices were easily skirted by re-financing before interest payments ballooned. I chose to go with the quantitative analysis over the hand-wavy platitude-based set of beliefs, and am glad that I did.He sold at the height of the market. On seeing the success of applying quantitative analysis over hand-wavy platitude-based opinion to life, instead of moving to finance like many physicists, he applied it to the environment. He saw hand-wavy platitude-based beliefs and couldn’t stand it. He began applying physics to how we create energy, population, and so on in Do the Math.To the chagrin of his dedicated audience, since 2015, he posted only once. He told me on one of his appearances on my podcast that he had answered the most important questions so didn’t have more to write.But he wasn’t done. The blog was an unorganized string of posts. He taught a course to non-science undergraduates on the subject, called Energy and the Environment. He used the course to compile his posts, polish them, and make a self-contained comprehensive book. As far as I know, the only one like it, possibly because mathematics is the language of nature, so equations abound, but he explains them, so people who haven’t taken science or math classes since high school can follow.Showing the math means we don’t have to take his word for it. We can do the math too and think, judge, and act for ourselves. No matter our politics, age, industry, etc, we can access this book equally. The environment involves many branches of science, including physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, systems, and more, as well as fields including engineering, history, politics, philosophy, and more. Murphy brings them together like no other resource I’ve found. Many will shy away from devoting the time that the gravity of our environmental situation demands, but for enabling and empowering every reader to understand, think, judge, and act for themselves, I consider Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet the science book of the decade.I’ve read and watched a lot of books, videos, and articles. For reference, I consider Sustainability Without the Hot Air by Caltech-trained Cambridge physicist David MacKay the science book of the previous decade, and Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, the science book of the decade before that, by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgen Randers. (A video of David MacKay after his book led me to avoid flying, not as a burden but to increase my enjoyment of nature and connection to humans.) Read these three books, and you understand our environment.But wait, there’s more. Murphy has acted on his findings in his personal life. He didn’t just use an electric car or unplug appliances before doing so was cool, he measured his results and shared how doing so affected his relationships with his wife, peers, and students. He shares his life and profession. This book doesn’t teach raw information, it shares a lifestyle.I’m not saying the book is easy, only that I find it the most valuable book or resource on the most important area humans have faced as a species, and I’ve read and watched many.Murphy’s book is glorious. He writes about the wonder of nature, our genius in harnessing it, its limitations, and our folly at not measuring the sofa before trying to jam it into the elevator, or believing the self-serving interests suggesting a “new normal” without justification.The math is accessible to a non-science undergraduate. To someone with a PhD in physics like me, it is a symphony—pure joy when you understand it, even more when your study it. Beethoven didn’t write his Ninth for one hearing. Yo-Yo Ma has to study pieces and even with my PhD, I have to take time to understand its equations and application. I learn each time I read Murphy. You will too. The payoff is worth it for aesthetic pleasure alone. There are practical benefits to understanding the patterns: unlike Beethoven, the fates of civilization and millions of species, including our own, depend on our understanding and behavior.Learning math and physics here is like learning biology and chemistry when you start gardening or sports. You don’t need to start with anything. You won’t reach your potential, but you won’t get injured either. You’ll learn by doing. Any gardener will soon learn about species and seasons. Lifting weights taught me anatomy and diet. Sailing will teach you tides and fluid dynamics.Math doesn’t give answers. It doesn’t have values. People Do.Humans have values. What we consider good, bad, right, and wrong stands outside math and science. Euclid derived all of Euclidean geometry from five axioms but he had to start with them. Likewise, math lets you get from your values to what to do but it doesn’t tell you your values.Engineers often think math tells you answers. They promote nuclear power for not emitting CO2 or electric vehicles because they are more efficient, but do our deepest values include avoiding CO2 emissions and efficiency?Murphy describes how nuclear fission and fusion work, their hurdles to implementation, and so on, but then treats the science and technology as only the starting point to decide their value. Most analyses and people confronted with waste and pollution see more efficient sources and less polluting sources as the solution. Obviously, they pollute less, right? Not so fast. You have to do the math. What patterns have we followed before? If we follow them again, what will happen? People familiar with systems may expect systems to behave differently than their elements alone. Murphy does the math and suggests clean fission and fusion would compound our problems. Don’t believe him? You can do the math yourself, but if you just feel confident based on hopes, dreams, and fantasies, you’ll benefit most from his book.Most science books tell you results of experiment or predict some outcome based on some model. The IPCC reports, for example, tell you our best understanding of our climate measurements and where, given our patterns, we’ll end up or could end up if we change our behavior. The results show lots of numbers. They do math but they don’t enable you to do math. Books like the Uninhabitable Earth describe such predictions in prose, again not enabling you to do math.Who Should Read ItAfter generations of this nation denigrating science, math, nature, and education of them, I’m under no preconceptions of how popular this book will become. People feel guilty thinking and talking about the environment when their responsibility comes into play. Still, everyone can understand it. You’ll love it when you work through it.Every policymaker, CEO, and media programmer will benefit their audiences from knowing this book. Even if leaders don’t read it enough to understand it, this book enables them to have on staff or retainer someone who understands the math from doing it. That leader can choose not to talk in equations. He or she may even wave his or her hands and speak in platitudes, but can start from understanding, not ignorance.Why You’ll Love the MathI wrote how mathematics is the language of nature and that Murphy’s book is a symphony. The video below of a master class will illustrate what I mean (and put a big smile on your face, there are more of his videos here). Ben Zander is a conductor, musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and bestselling author. He speaks sometimes in English but other times through the piano. Because music is the language of music. Zander can’t communicate in English the sound and meaning of music where a few notes on the piano communicate everything.https://youtu.be/b2S-OjTb4nUAs music communicates music, equations describe nature. I know people more fluent in music will hear more than I do from Zander, but I love what I hear and value hearing what I can. You will gain as much reading Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet.Enjoy the book!Here is a video Tom and some peers made of the book:https://youtu.be/2fbOWhJy7So See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James catches up with author and journalist David Wallace-Wells. David's 2017 best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth began with the now-famous line “it is worse, much worse, than you think.” It then goes on to set out in rich and forensic detail what the impacts of climate change could be for our politics, our culture, our economy, and our psychology. It's one hell of a book and comes highly recommended, especially as more and more countries come forward with emissions reduction pledges. The Uninhabitable Earth started life as an article for the New Yorker. Within a couple of days of publication, it was the most-read article the magazine had ever published. Four years after writing it, what gives David hope that we can avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis and build a better, cleaner future for his young kids? As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback at james.shaw@parliament.govt.nz. Follow James on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Wallace-Wells (Author, The Uninhabitable Earth and Deputy Editor, New York Magazine) joins Hank on the latest episode of Straight Talk to discuss the role of journalism in the climate crisis, the implications of the rise in global temperatures, the threat of increased zoonotic pandemics, how global stimulus spending provides an opportunity for a green recovery, and the hope he sees for the future. More from David Wallace-Wells: https://nymag.com/author/david-wallace-wells/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells/

In 2019, David Wallace-Wells wrote a book called The Uninhabitable Earth. Just two years later, he’s feeling hopeful — thanks to the world’s biggest polluters. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2019, David Wallace-Wells wrote a book called The Uninhabitable Earth. Just two years later, he's feeling hopeful — thanks to the world's biggest polluters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Wallace Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, talks about where we are and where we're heading, why our worst fears won't come true, and the new economics of the climate.

Hannah Bacon is walking over 2,000 miles from California to Virginia Beach because she was terrified after reading, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. After evaluating her own carbon footprint, Hannah is on a mission to raise awareness about climate change and to support the Sunrise Movement for immediate climate action. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blueearth/support

Episode one of Eschatology looks at the worst-case scenarios of climate change. We'll look at what warming is doing to crops, how it's impacting people, and what the upper limits of human - and plant - adaptability to climate change might be. Theme music provided by Ryan Faber. "Silent Earth" and "Mori" composed by Ryan Hopper. Crop damage and suicide: https://bit.ly/2Nue2wR CO2 levels and rice proteins: https://bit.ly/3usA9El Human adaptability limits: https://bit.ly/3kk4ctj Falling crop yields:https://bit.ly/3aPjHpN

En el episodio de hoy descubrimos Extinción Rebelión (XR), un movimiento por el clima. Para ello ha colaborado en este episodio Leo Arriola, estudiante y activista de XR. Mil gracias a Leo y a Extinción Rebelión por querer colaborar en este episodio. ¡Muchas gracias por escuchar este episodio! Recuerda subscribirte para enterarte de los nuevos. Además, ahora puedes seguir al podcast en Instagram (@ecominimal.podcast) y unirte al canal de Telegram (@ecominimalpodcast) para enterarte de las novedades sobre el podcast a tiempo real y descubrir pistas sobre los próximos episodios. Mencionados - Extinción Rebelión España: http://bit.ly/XR_IG_ES - Extinción Rebelión Barcelona: https://www.instagram.com/xrbarcelona/ - Web de Extinción Rebelión: http://www.extinctionrebellion.es - Libro “The Uninhabitable Earth” de David Wallace Wells (en español, “El planeta inhóspito”): http://bit.ly/planeta_inhospito - Libro “This is not a drill” de Extinction Rebellion - Libro “Esto lo cambia todo” de Naomi Klein: http://bit.ly/EstoLoCambiaTodo - Libro “Cooperación o Extinción” de Noam Chomsky: http://bit.ly/Coop_ext RRSS y contacto 📷 Instagram @ecominimal.podcast: http://bit.ly/ecominimalIG 📣 Canal de Telegram @ecominimalpodcast: https://t.me/ecominimalpodcast 📧 Correo electrónico: ecominimalpodcast@gmail.com Créditos de la música 🎶Canción inicial: Longing by Joakim Karud https://bit.ly/linkjoakim Music promoted by Audio Library https://bit.ly/AudLibraryLink 🎵Canción final: Warm Nights de Lakey Inspired: https://bit.ly/linklakey Licencia para el uso comercial: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported “Share Alike” (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://bit.ly/CClakey ¿Por qué Ecominimal? El nombre que lleva este podcast surge del término eco-minimalismo, acuñado y creado por la youtuber Shelbizleee. Según ella, el eco-minimalismo consiste en poner en práctica el minimalismo desde una perspectiva ecológica. Para el podcast escogí el nombre Ecominimal por su relación con las temáticas ecológicas y minimalistas que se tratan. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

This episode pulls heavily from two excellent books, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells and The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. I look at the cognitive biases that prevent us from thinking logically and honestly about climate change, and therefore limit our actions, as presented in The Uninhabitable Earth. Following this I discuss the three "mindsets" put forward in The Future We Choose, that can help us to reframe the problem in our minds and take meaningful action.Follow the Green Urbanist:https://twitter.com/GreenUrbanPodhttps://www.instagram.com/greenurbanistpodContact the Green Urbanist:greenurbanistpod@gmail.com

Today's episode is Part 1 of a series about how climate change is affecting our cities. There are four episodes in this series, coming out over the coming months, with a different topic for each.Today's topic is heat and I cover the following issues:What is "Degrees Warming"?Extreme heat / heatwaves (Case study: Paris)Water shortages (Case studies: Nigeria and England)Correlation between heat and increased crime ratesFuture episodes in this series will cover water (sea level rise and flooding), food and society. Follow/subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date! Follow us on social media for additional content and news. Follow the podcast on social mediahttps://twitter.com/GreenUrbanPodhttps://www.instagram.com/greenurbanistpodIntro music by Tanoihttps://www.instagram.com/tanoibandhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/5CO2UfOc9jkoImoS6Wmsx4?si=HmxCxRYkTreT7XCTW2G51gReferences:Many of the facts and figures come from The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells - an amazing book. Specific internet-based resources are shown below.Heathttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/world/europe/france-europe-extreme-heat.htmlhttps://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/06/paris-trees-famous-landmarks-garden-park-urban-forest-design/591835/https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/06/europe-heatwave-paris-climate-resilience-weather-hot/592729/IPCC, Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policy MakersWaterhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47620228https://www.wired.co.uk/article/london-thames-water-leakshttps://www.circleofblue.org/2018/world/water-scarcity-looms-in-londons-future/#:~:text=In%20recent%20years%2C%20London%20has,is%20influenced%20by%20several%20factors.Crimehttps://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/centers/mrcbg/files/ranson_2012-8.FINAL.pdfhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b37/pdfhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018GH000152https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118517390.wbetc198

In Part One of Climate Deadline, Walker, Mark, and Alex discuss just how supremely f*cked the planet is in the context of three important books on climate change. Plus, birds are freaking dinosaurs!! Support Gilded Age on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/gildedage Follow Gilded Age on Twitter https://twitter.com/gildedagepod Books discussed: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton http://royscranton.com/books/learning-to-die-in-the-anthropocene The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250062185 The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabitable-earth-by-david-wallace-wells --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gildedage/support

Diane talks with David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor at New York Magazine and author of “The Uninhabitable Earth.”

In recent months, the climate change movement reach new heights with global strikes and large-scale marches. Journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells joins the Prospect podcast and takes stock of where the global climate movement is today, and what change needs to happen to avoid the alarming futures we may face.Plus: Tom Clark and Steve Bloomfield on the climate change proposals unveiled party conferences See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

According to David Wallace-Wells, we're cooked – literally. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives – including how a five degree increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable. But If science and news headlines won't propel us into climate action, will fear itself do the trick? According to climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, building connection over an existing set of values is critical to communicating the perils of climate change and mobilizing action to address it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by author David Wallace Wells to discuss his book, The Uninhabitable Earth, and the worst-case scenarios of climate change. Next, Amber catches up with Salesforce's Chief Digital Evangelist, Vala Afshar, at the Salesforce World Tour and chats about the future of work and the skills we will need. Also, Alice Agogino, CEO of Squishy Robotics, reveals how drones are changing the face of disaster relief. Plus, Michael Josh from GadgetMatch weighs in on the fiasco of the debut of the Samsung Galaxy foldable phone. In Socially Speaking, we break down how Twitter is making it easier to report accounts that mislead voters.

It's time for us to once again give you a little taster of what you could have been listening to this week, had you taken the plunge and become a Second Captains World Service member. Leinster and Ireland legend Shane Horgan was in rare form looking ahead to this weekend's European Champions Cup semi-finals, as well as looking back 10 years, to the day when Leinster were nearly cheated out of their first Heineken Cup by the Harlequins 'bloodgate' controversy. And there's also Ken's politics podcast from last week, after he spoke to David Wallace-Wells, author of "The Uninhabitable Earth", about the looming disaster of climate change.

It is worse, so much worse, than you think'.  And that's just the first line of David Wallace-Wells' book, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming'.  So, you read on to be reminded that much of what we have to fear about the new climate reality is already upon us.  Yet, failure to push back against … Continue reading EP 222A The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Youth of the World on the march. I've been reading There is no Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee and I'll tell you how it compares with The Uninhabitable Earth which I reviewed earlier. I've been in touch with Jem Bendell. He's totally overwhelmed by responses to his paper but I hope to be able to interview one of his colleagues later in May. This week I've discovered a lot of information about denial. Why do people deny things and what can we do about it? And there's other news: about air pollution, Coca-Cola bottles, gas heating and a few gripes about my abandoned PhD. Full text and links at www.sustainablefutures.report. 

Our guest today is David Wallace Wells, a deputy editor at New York Magazine, and author of a vividly distressing new book about the all-encompassing perils of climate change, called The Uninhabitable Earth. With every full-throated warning, on page after page, Wallace Wells fully embraces the notion that eloquently targeted fear can shake the public into action. He also presents a gripping argument that scientists, and others charged with sounding the alarm, have historically been far too timid, for fear of being branded "alarmist" or dismissed as leftist. Now is the time to panic, Wallace Wells argues. In fact, that moment passed long ago. So now what? Host Jamilah King helps listeners locate some moments of hope and optimism amid the fear.

 This week: a review of The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, the attention that climate change is getting in Parliament and reactions to the American Green Deal. There's more on extreme weather, on air pollution and a follow-up from The Lancet on the Planetary Diet.

Listen NowFor this, my 168th interview, David Wallace Wells discusses his just-published book, "The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming."  Listeners may recall I interviewed Mr. Wallace Wells on August 2, 2017 shortly after his published his July 2017 New York Magazine article by the same title, "The Uninhabitable Earth."  (At: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html.)   (In the recent past, or since last October, I've also interviewed Jessica Wolff, Kris Ebi and Jeremy Hess all on climate change.)   Currently, the earth has warmed to approximately 1 degree Celsius (1.8 F).  Our atmosphere presently contains over 400 parts per million of CO2, more than anytime over upwards of the past 15 million years.  According to the United Nations we are on course to pass 1.5C by 2040.  We learned last October the difference between 1.5C and 2.0C, per the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is cataclysmic.  (We are after all the Goldilocks planet.)  As one commenter of Wallace's Wells work has noted, "the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realize and he is right." Another stated, Wallace Wells " doesn't sugarcoat the horror."  As I note in the introduction to this interview, younger listeners (say under 40) are particularly encouraged to listen since you will inherit the full consequences of climate change.     During this 35-minute conversation Mr. Wallace Wells begins by describing what explains the planet's five great extinctions and what effect they had on species survival.  (Scientists believe we are presently experiencing our sixth great extinction.)  Based on his intensive study he offers the most likely scenario relative to the current and near-term emissions of global warming greenhouse gas emissions.  He discusses current science on global warming feedback loops, e.g., the albedo effect, James Hansen's "scientific reticence" critique, the value of exploiting hope versus fear in addressing global warming, the promise of carbon capture technology or negative emissions technology and creating hydrocarbon fuels from carbon capture and a general assessment of current US politics, including the recent "Green New Deal," in re: remedying climate change/global warming.       David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York Magazine, where he also writes about science and his  recurring “Tomorrow” column on the future of science and technology, e.g., his 2015 cover story about the epidemic of honey-bee deaths (the first magazine story to put the blame on neonicitinoid pesticides, which is now accepted science).  He joined the magazine as literary editor in 2011, became features director in 2016, and has overseen the magazine's family of podcasts in addition to his writing and editing.   Before joining New York magazine, David was deputy editor at The Paris Review, where he edited and published writers such as Ann Beattie, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Franzen, Janet Malcolm, among others, and interviewed William Gibson as part of the magazine's “Writers at Work” series.  He previously served as "The New York Sun's" book editor.  Mr. Wallace Wells was graduated from Brown University.Listeners are again encouraged to read the IPCC's recent, "Global Warming of 1.5C," a 32-page summary of the report is at: https://report.ipcc.ch/sr15/pdf/sr15_spm_final.pdf.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Listen NowEarlier this month the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), the world's definitive body on the subject, concluded we have just 12 years, or until 2030, to avoid global temperatures rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7F).  We've already warmed by 1C.   Among other consequences, if we warm to 2.0C (or 3.6F) we will lose 99 percent of our coral reefs.  We are presently on track to warm to 4C by the end of this century - that the Trump administration, via a National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) environmental impact stated, admitted in August.  This means we will have to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.  (The US is historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses and currently second behind China.  Worldwide, we currently dump 42 billion tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere annually and the amount has been again climbing since last year.)  As I noted in a November 13, 2017 3 Quarks Daily essay (a link to which was posted on this podcast that month), there is no climate analog for this century for at least the past 50 million years.  Should the atmosphere warm by 2C (the Paris Climate Accord goal was between 1.5 to 2), the earth as we know it will largely cease to exist.   Therefore, it is a particularly good time to examine what the health care industry, the second largest emitter of greenhouse pollution after the food industry, is doing to reduce its carbon footprint. During this 28 minute podcast Ms. Jessica Wolff discusses, in sum, efforts  by Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) to achieve reductions in the health care industry's carbon footprint.  She explains why HCWH was formed, provides an overview of its current mission is to reduce the industry's carbon footprint, discusses how specifically the industry is addressing the problem (via mitigation, resilience and leadership), highlights related initiatives, e.g., the recently formed California Health Care Climate Alliance, identifies leaders in the industry and what they are doing, e.g., Kaiser, and discusses opportunities the industry is and can take to influence and/or reform state and federal climate change policy.Ms. Jessica Wolff is the US Director of Climate and Health for Health Care Without Harm (HCWH).   Prior to her current position she was the Environmental Sustainability Adviser at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.  Prior still she worked as a women's health nurse practitioner and as a health center director.  She holds an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a degree in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and a Master's in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.For information on HCWH go to: https://noharm.org/.The IPCC report is at: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/.On August 3 , 2017, I interviewed David Wallace Wells regarding his global warming article published in July 2017 in  New York Magazine.  It was titled, "The Uninhabitable Earth."  It is at: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?gtm=bottom>m=top.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Listen NowApproximately three weeks ago New York Magazine published David Wallace-Well's 7,500 word essay "The Uninhabitable Earth, Famine, Economic Collapse, A Sun That Cooks Us: What Climate Change Could Wreak - Sooner Than You Think."  The article has to date been downloaded over 4.5 million times.  It is the most read essay the magazine has ever published.  The essay begins with, "If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today."  The work goes on to discuss worst case effects by the end of this century should carbon emissions or global warming not be successfully addressed.   During this 36 minute conversation Mr. Wallace-Wells discusses what prompted him to write the essay.  He summarizes his findings, discusses Jim Hansen's concern climate scientists may be undermining their ability to effectively communicate the threat via what Hansen terms "scientific reticence," what, if any, edits he would make after learning the scientific community's response to the essay, and how hopeful he is whether carbon tax, carbon capture and other policies will avoid atmospheric warming by four, five or more degrees Celsius over the next several decades.David Wallace Wells is deputy editor at New York Magazine.  His 2015 cover story about the epidemic of honey bee deaths, the first magazine story to put the blame on neonicitinoid pesticides, is now accepted science.  He joined the magazine as literary editor in 2011 and became features director in 2016.  Before joining the magazine he was deputy editor at The Paris Review where he edited and published writers including Ann Beattie, Werner Herzog and Jonathan Franzen.  Previously Mr. Wallace-Wells served as The New York Sun's books editor.  Mr. Wallace-Wells graduated from Brown University with a degree in history.    Mr. Wallace-Wells essay is at: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html.   The noted Popovich and Pearce article, "It's Not Your Imagination Summers Are Getting Hotter," in the July 28 issue of The New York Times is at:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/28/climate/more-frequent-extreme-summer-heat.html.Listeners may recall my March 31 interview with Professor Jonathan Patz regarding this past February's "Climate and Health Conference" at the Carter Center and links to two related essays by me posted this past June 13 concerning the medical community's non-response to the the Trump administration withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and one posted May 25, 2016 reviewing the Obama's administration's, "The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the US."   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com