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Tiny Nations, Giant Impact: The Politics of Climate Change

June 17, 2019 Current Events, Environment, Politics

Time’s Justin Worland joins us to talk about how Fiji and other tiny countries are leading the charge to address climate change.

We Can’t Stop Climate Change: Here Is What We Can Do

March 27, 2019 Environment, Global Issues

Roger Sedjo joins us to talk about global warming as two parallel tracks: One focused on slowing global warming and another planning for its inevitability. His new book is called “Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn’t Enough.”

Can A Carbon Tax Curb Climate Change?

October 17, 2018 Environment, Global Issues, Science and Technology

Jeff Nesbit, executive director of Climate Nexus, talks about the massive worldwide adjustments necessary to fix the problem – and what role a carbon tax might play.

That Time We Could Have Fixed Global Warming

August 9, 2018 Environment

Scientists began to understand the potential dangers of climate change in the 1980’s, yet that understanding wasn’t put into action. Writer Nathaniel Rich joins us to talk about why.

A City-Based Solution To Climate Change

April 17, 2018 Global Issues

Carl Pope, former head of the Sierra Club, joins us to talk about why environmentalists should look beyond elected officials for action on climate change.

The Future Of Health In A Warming World

December 12, 2017 Environment, Health

Dr. Paul Auerbach of Stanford University Medical School talks about the effect that rising temperatures has on the well-being of people.

Is Anyone Out There?

October 17, 2017 Best of Think, Science and Technology

Astrophysicist Adam Frank joins us to talk about the theory that over-population and climate change are actually the natural demise of civilizations – possibly even ones that existed on other planets.

The Upside Of Climate Change

September 18, 2017 Environment

Chris Thomas, a professor of conservation biology at the University of York, joins us to explain how humans have changed the natural world in positive ways.

“An Inconvenient Truth” Revisited

August 10, 2017 Environment

Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk join us to talk about their new film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”

National Parks In Peril

July 18, 2017 Best of Think, Environment

Environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams joins us to talk about how we can better care for national parks.

Drilling In Canada’s Tar Sands

December 21, 2016 Environment

Journalist Neela Banerjee and Alan Jeffers of Exxon, join us to talk about the effect that drilling for oil in Alberta will have on climate change.

The Race to Remake Civilization

December 14, 2016 Science and Technology

We’re talking about scientists, elected officials and philanthropists working to save the world with TED science curator David Biello, author of “The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age.”