The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
Rico Verde
125 episodes
1 week ago
SHOW NOTES Think 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 rates from natural disasters have fallen tenfold since the 1920s. Child mortality dropped from 43% to 4% globally. And in 2012, something remarkable happened that most people still don't know about—the world hit peak per capita carbon emissions, and they've bee...
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SHOW NOTES Think 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 rates from natural disasters have fallen tenfold since the 1920s. Child mortality dropped from 43% to 4% globally. And in 2012, something remarkable happened that most people still don't know about—the world hit peak per capita carbon emissions, and they've bee...
Torching the Future: Part 1 of 3 – How Fire Forged Human Civilization
The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
41 minutes
4 months ago
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 fire to new places, fire gave us power to reshape the world. That ancient partnership made civilization possible—and breaking it may destroy us. The fires burning today aren't the fires our grandparents knew. They're faster, hotter, and more destructive than...
The Green Elephant in the Room: Solutions To Restoring the Health of People and the Living Planet
SHOW NOTES Think 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 rates from natural disasters have fallen tenfold since the 1920s. Child mortality dropped from 43% to 4% globally. And in 2012, something remarkable happened that most people still don't know about—the world hit peak per capita carbon emissions, and they've bee...
