Air Travel, Climate Change and Don’t Look Up with Chris Schaberg Artwork

In the Weeds

In the weeds explores how culture shapes our relationship to the natural world through interviews with a wide range of guests, from scientists to artists to cultural critics and theologians.

All Episodes

In the Weeds

Air Travel, Climate Change and Don’t Look Up with Chris Schaberg

February 10, 2022 • Nicole Asquith • Episode 43

0:00 | 42:16

Chris Schaberg, whom you might remember from my episode on SUV commercials, has written a number of books on air travel. I wanted to talk to him about the impact of air travel on climate change but also about what air travel - and, increasingly, the fantasy that we can be tourists in space as well - reveals about the relationship between us human animals and the sophisticated technology that drives globalization (and, as a fall out, climate change). I was also itching to talk about Adam McKay’s film Don’t Look Up, in which a comet hurtling towards the earth serves as an analogy for climate change, and Chris was kind enough to indulge me.

in-the-weeds.net
to contact the host - asquith.intheweeds@gmail.com

V3yfxuYWqRsI5hgXHPDU