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We all know about the doom and gloom associated with environmental issues. We need to tell ourselves a new story. Instead let's talk about energy independence, green jobs, livable cities, clean water, clean air, and healthy children. This is where politics, perceptions, and life-style meet the catastrophe that is unfolding in front of our eyes. Here's a suggestion — subscribe, tune-in, and stop doom-scrolling.
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The Real-World Costs What happens when psychological dysfunction meets ultimate power? In our final episode, we examine the cascading failures already underway - and the catastrophic scenarios ahead. In This Episode: How binary thinking creates the perfect conditions for authoritarianismWhy millions now construct identity through hatred instead of valuesThe collapse of truth: when words become weapons, not descriptions of realityWhen shame stops working: corruption without consequencesFive po...
Modern Warfare has Evolved Beyond Recognition From the clear battlefield lines of 1813 Leipzig to today's asymmetric conflicts, war has become a chaotic mix of cyber attacks, economic warfare, and endless urban conflicts that never truly end. The old rules of engagement have comple...
SHOW-NOTES From Cold War Terror to Algorithm Anxiety In 1983, 100 million Americans watched "The Day After" and couldn't sleep for days. Today, a 13-year-old Russian boy thinks he's playing a video game but is actually designing drone components for Ukraine. We've traded the fear of instant nuclear annihilation for the reality of constant algorithmic surveillance and precision warfare. The Drone Revolution Changes Everything Ukrainian soldiers call it "a thousand snipers in the sk...
Fire has transformed from the simple chemistry Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman once described—oxygen and carbon atoms finding their way home to each other—into something far more sinister. When modern cities burn, we're not just breathing smoke; we're inhaling aerosolized communities filled with toxic chemicals from synthetic furnishings, electronics, and household products that can kill more people indirectly than the flames do directly. This transformation has reshaped human life in fire...
Have you noticed how we often rush to create new technologies just because we can, without stopping to ask if we should? Our new episode looks at this dangerous pattern where we innovate without thinking about the consequences. We start by looking at supersonic planes making a comeback. Why are companies building these super-fast luxury jets that are terrible for the climate, especially when we know so much about climate change? This same problem shows up everywhere - in Artificial Intelligen...
Ever wonder how our planet became the only known celestial body teeming with life? Our latest episode takes you on a 4.5-billion-year journey from Earth's fiery beginnings to today's interconnected living systems. Discover how microbes shaped continents, plankton created our atmosphere, and animals engineered entire landscapes. This isn't just Earth's story—it's our story, as we now face the responsibility of planetary stewardship. Listen now to gain a profound new perspective on our home in ...
As Trump's tariff policies trigger economic uncertainty, consumer confidence is dropping. With those new tariffs rattling global markets, we're seeing something remarkable: Americans consuming less while becoming more engaged as citizens. This shift—from shopping mall to town hall, from consumer mindset to civic responsibility—creates an opening for environmental progress. Throughout most of human history, people identified primarily as members of communities—families, tribes, villages,...
SHOWNOTES In this, the third podcast in a three-part series, we start buy discussing the fundamental difference between Republican and Democrat voters. Next, a deep dive on how Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 — by not winning the popular vote, and how he could easily do it again. Then, insights on how the nation has to prepare itself on election day, November 5th and the following days, to be thrown into turmoil if Trump is not elected. This includes threats of violence against ...
This is the first of three episodes about how Donald Trump, if elected, will strangle Climate and Environmentalism in it’s crib. In this episode: Trump and his party have a new climate-strategy — acknowledging that change is happening, but refusing to actually do anything to stop it. Also, considering how shokingly unfit Donald Trump is for leading the country — what is it about him that allowed him to come this far? Next, we answer the perplexing question: Why do millions of people sup...
We are caught in an economic and political system that encourages our collective participation in our planet’s daily disintegration. Why would we expect to feel good, and good about ourselves, while we are a part of the decimation of life on Earth, including ourselves and everyone we love? On one hand, we are the victims. No one asked to be born into this broken system that treats human and other life as disposable, allows for unprecedented levels of inequality, and has ignored the clim...
How should we think about a world that doesn’t yet exist? Can you Imagine what a Post-carbon Future would look like? For decades, visions of possible climate futures have been thought of, on the one hand, Pollyanna-like faith that normality would endure, and on the other, an ecological ...
An Imagined Scenario from 2024—2028. Presenting a very special Green Elephant Podcast Episode. Having just come off a 3-Part Podcast Series entitled: “The Most Dangerous Organization in History: The Republican Party” we wanted to give the GOP a chance to redeem themselves. &...
1. Why is it so hard to fully address climate change? Is it because it is mind-crushingly beyond any human scale? Climate change is the ultimate hyper-object – something so vast that it is impossible to hold in our mind. A hyper-object, even as it surrounds us, we can’t perceive it – it is invisible, yet it exists. Climate change despite being so definitely caused by humans is so profoundly non-human; so expansive that our understanding is continually outpaced and exhausted. Maybe by viewing ...
Why is Climate Change so Hard to Fix? Major obstacles are conflict of interests, vast cultural differences, competition between economies, infrastructure discrepancies, lack of information, climate-change denial, the economics of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, disagreement over sharing the burden of the climate change costs, and the politics of actively legislating climate laws and regulations, which are, unfortunately, going backwards. Climate is a globally complex and an often invisible...
There has never been a summer like this in recorded history. This is not the first time we have confronted the harsh realities of unrelenting planetary heat, but most would agree, this has been a summer like no other. The role of climate change in our lives now and in the future is revealing itself,...
Are Setting Climate Deadlines a Good Idea or Not? Have you noticed that almost all the climate deadlines end with “0”? 2030, 2050, 2100. So that means we either have 7 or 37, or 87 years to tidy up our atmosphere before catastrophe strikes. There are groups of activists and scientists that swear by them. Motivational they say. While others tell us they are limiting and could be detrimental. This talk of Doomsday Clocks does tap into broader questions about the place of apoc...
In this episode, first, we’ll put to rest the constant debate over: Is it over-consumption or over-population that is intensifying the climate and wider ecological crisis?Then we will look at our biological nature and the reasons for having children. Next, the profound and delicate subject of what are the moral implications of having children in the age of climate change?Crucially we go directly to the source and talk to children themselves about being born into today’s climate com...
UPDATED INFORMATION: In this acclaimed classical rebroadcast we take the news-media to task for its appalling lack of coverage in this critical time of climate and ecological breakdown. We need to hold the media accountable for their miserable record of reporting on our fossil fuel-driven climate emergency. The news media is powerful, influential and should be a substantial and reliable source in our increasingly unlivable world. This episode’s webpage (linked below) includes updated in...
This episode is the fifth and last in a series focusing on proven and tested approaches resolving not only our climate and multiple environmental crises, but also the attacks on our democratic institutions and ideals. This is going to be critical if we are to any hope of dealing with the breadth and scope of these of these literally earth-shattering challenges for the planet’s living biosystems – including ourselves and our institutions. &nbs...
SHOW NOTES This is the third in a series of podcasts that dynamically demonstrates a proven process for making rapid progress on climate, against the backdrop of an increasingly urgent timeline. How do you deal with problems as diverse as manatees starving in Florida, the ocean of plastic in our oceans, the staggering problem of food waste, the devastation of palm oil plantations, the heartbreaking slaughter of elephants for ivory, air pollution killing millions annually, the leveling of anc...
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It was awsome.Thanks for making such these amazing contents. I enjoyed listening. And I really got upest because those poor animals which are being mistreated🥺💔