Wired contributor Sonya Bennett-Brandt discusses the plants that kill native flora and choke ecosystems – and the people who are dispatched to quell the spread.
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Do you worry too much about climate change?
Shannon Osaka joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the growing number of people who share a grim view of the future, and how climate scientists are trying to win them back.
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How you can stop wasting food
Reporter Susan Shain explains how food waste is responsible for twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as commercial aviation.
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Why you don’t know that people of color were some of the first environmentalists
Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist platform, joins host Krys Boyd to explain the links between racism, environmentalism and privilege.
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Why you don’t know that people of color were some of the first environmentalists
Leah Thomas, founder of The Intersectional Environmentalist Platform, explains the links between racism, environmentalism and privilege.
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The climate impact of your future kids
Bryan Walsh, editor of Vox’s Future Perfect, talks about a U.S. population that’s trending downward and arguments on the political Left vs. Right about why having children might be a good thing for America’s future.
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How you can stop wasting food
Reporter Susan Shain explains how food waste is responsible for twice as many greenhouse gas emissions as commercial aviation.
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10 scenarios that could end the world—should you worry?
Reporter Joel Achenbach talks about the scientists working on ways to save planet Earth from extinction and how to manage all that existential dread.
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Would you eat ‘hybrid’ meat?
Vox staff writer Kenny Torrella discusses cultivated meat, a product grown from animal muscle and fat cells, and how it’s being blended with plant-based products in hopes of ending traditional meat production altogether.
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Rising seas, floods or droughts: Living with water as nature intended
Think broadcasts today from the studios of WWNO in New Orleans. Erica Gies discusses the Slow Water movement, an idea that pushes back on methods that speed water away so that floods and droughts find natural systems that work with today’s infrastructure needs.
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A philosopher on why we should care about future generations
Professor William MacAskill discusses why we must make long-term thinking a priority if we truly care about the descendants we’ll never meet.
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Your AC won’t keep up with climate change
Eric Dean Wilson discusses how America uses more energy for cooling than any other nation on the planet and how that’s fueling the climate crisis.
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