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The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
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.
Episodes
131 episodes
THE BIG STUPID: Trump’s Devastatingly Effective War on Knowledge (Part 3 of 3)
SHOW NOTESWe're witnessing civilization-scale destruction in real time. A single leader is systematically dismantling America's knowledge infrastructure—firing thousands of scientists, defunding research institutions, attacking un...
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THE BIG STUPID: The $7 Trillion War on Human Attention (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW NOTESWhat if the greatest threat to solving climate breakdown isn't denial or inaction—it's that we've been systematically engineered to be incapable of understanding it? This episode reveals how a $7 trillion industry has tr...
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THE BIG STUPID - Why We're Getting Dumber When We Need to Be Smarter (Part 1 of 3)
SHOW-NOTESFor the first time in recorded history, human intelligence is declining. IQ scores that rose steadily for a century have reversed course across the developed world. Pattern recognition, abstract reasoning, and problem-so...
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Apocalypse Autopsy: Transformation Stories (Part 2 of 2)
SHOW NOTESThe word apocalypse doesn't mean ending - it means revelation, transformation. History shows that human apocalypses don't destroy everything, they fundamentally change society. The Black Death killed half of ...
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Apocalypse Autopsy: Are we the Asteroid or the Dinosaurs? (Part 1 of 2)
SHOW NOTESEarth has nearly died five times. Not from asteroids - Earth did it to itself. Over the past 445 million years, massive volcanic eruptions pumped catastrophic amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering cas...
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Beyond Doom: Navigating the Poly-Crisis (Part 2 of 2)
SHOW NOTESWhy Everything Feels Like It's Falling Apart at Once—and What That Actually MeansWhen wildfires, pandemics, refugee crises, and wars all seem to strike simultaneously, it's not just bad luck. This episode i...
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Beyond Doom: The Data Behind Hope (Part 1 of 2)
SHOW NOTESThink we're doomed? The data tells a different story. More than half of young people worldwide believe humanity is headed for extinction, but when researchers examine the actual numbers, they find something surprising. Death ra...
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PLASTIC PLANET: How Big Oil Created our Next Addiction (Part 3 of 3)
SHOW NOTESYou've been recycling for years, diligently sorting your bins and feeling good about doing your part. But what if the whole system was designed to fail from the start? In this episode, we reveal the uncomfortable truth a...
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PLASTIC PLANET: The Visible Crisis – When the World Woke Up (Part 2 of 3)
EPISODE SHOW-NOTESFor decades, we knew plastic was a problem. Scientists published papers. Environmentalists raised alarms. But knowing and seeing are two very different things. In 2015, a sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged ...
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Plastic Planet: From Miracle to Menace (Part 1 of 3)
SHOW-NOTESWHY THREE EPISODES ON PLASTIC?You already know plastic is bad. You've heard about ocean garbage patches and sea turtles with straws in their noses. You've been told to recycle and use reusable bags. So ...
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GOLD — AFTER THE SHINE
Gold has been an object of desire forever. Why? It's shiny! Some birds and humans like shiny things. Gold is also scarce, which adds value. There are rarer metals than gold, but the yellow metal is more recognizable to the naked eye. There has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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23:27
Electrify Everything: The Path to Zero Carbon
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful tools in the fight against climate change: electrification. Currently, America runs on millions of tiny fires—cars, trucks, furnaces, and factories burning fossil fuels. The solution? ...
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Shrinking Trump - Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 3 of 3)
The Real-World CostsWhat 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:
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Season 8
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Episode 116
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Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW-NOTESHow does individual psychological dysfunction become mass contagion? This episode explores the transformation from personal pathology to cultural crisis—examining how smart people voluntarily humiliate themselves for power, how...
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Shrinking Trump: Performance, Pathology, and the Presidency (1 of 3)
SHOW-NOTESSomething disturbing is happening in real time, and mental health experts are sounding urgent alarms. The most powerful person in the world is showing clear signs of cognitive breakdown – creating words that don't ex...
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The Last War - Why Humanity's Oldest Problem is Finally Solving Itself (Part 2 of 2)
Modern Warfare has Evolved Beyond Recognition ...
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Season 8
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Episode 116
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33:23
From Nuclear Nightmares to Digital Warfare: How We Traded Apocalypse for Algorithms Part 1 of 2
SHOW-NOTESFrom 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 ac...
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Season 8
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Episode 115
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Torching the Future: From Cooking to Catastrophe (Part 3 of 3)
The Quintessential Question – Why is the Human Brain so Extraordinary?Fire made us human through cooking, giving us the energy to build massive brains and create civilization. But the species that mastered fire has lost control of...
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Torching the Future (Part 2 of 3): Living in the Age of Fire
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 sm...
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Season 7
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Episode 113
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33:20
Torching the Future: Part 1 of 3 – How Fire Forged Human Civilization
For thousands of years, humans and fire had a deal. Fire exists because of the oxygen generated by life. Civilization exists because it partnered with fire. Fire had co-evolved with Life. We carried...
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41:26
Our Sweet Future Lives After we Solve Climate Change
How should we think about a world that doesn’t yet exist? ...
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Season 5
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Episode 70
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21:28
Climate Denial: Are you a Luke-Warmer?
Most people are not climate deniers. It is an unreasonable and frankly, a stupid position to take. Recent polling shows that the majority (73%) of Americans strongly believe that climate change is happening and that it is caused...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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Rationing Paradise: How Permits and Fees Create Sustainable Tourism
From Colorado's Blue Lakes Trail limiting hikers to 40 per day, to Bhutan charging tourists $200 daily just to exist in the country, this episode explores the uncomfortable truth about environmental protection: the solutions that actually work ...
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The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 2 of 3)
SHOW NOTESFlight shame is dead. Despite a brief pause during COVID, global aviation emissions hit record highs in 2024 and are projected to double by 2040. What makes this different from other climate issues? The staggering...
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The Travel Paradox: How Mass Tourism Destroys What It Claims to Celebrate (Part 1 of 3)
SHOW NOTESThe summer vacation isn't just leisure—it's become deeply woven into how we think about happiness and success. For generations, we've chased sunshine and escape as rewards for hard work, proof we've "made it," and increa...
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