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S5 E11: Change Everything

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, image editing by Mara Guevarra.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make—in the West, and the U.S. in particular—to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?…

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S5 E8: Last Orders

  • January 24, 2022
Episode image: In the Cromarty Firth at the edge of Nigg, Scotland, retired oil rigs, left, and, to the right, wind turbine supports, or “jackets,” waiting to be towed out to sea. Photo by Victoria MacArthur. Image editing by Mara Guevarra.

Among the wealthy, industrialized Western countries that created the climate crisis, Scotland is one of the leaders in pivoting away from fossil fuels—or promising to. Just how quickly will Scots be willing to cut off…

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S5 E6: “We Don’t Have the Power to Fight It”

  • January 24, 2022

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence—for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate…

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S5 E3: “Managing” Nature

  • January 24, 2022
Season 5 art and image editing by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Photo of a painting of Gifford Pinchot by artist Stan Galli, 1955, with image editing by Mara Guevarra. The painting was commissioned by the Weyerhauser Timber Company for an ad campaign promoting “productive” forest management. Image courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.

If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? Did newer cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide? Part 3…

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S5 E2: To the Victor

  • January 24, 2022
Christopher Columbus landing at Hispaniola in 1492. Engraving from Herrera, 'Historia General De Los Hechos De Los Castellanos,' 1601. Edited photo highlights the ships, weapons, seamen, and the Christian cross in bright red.

How Western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, starting in the Middle Ages. Part 2 of The Repair, our series on the climate crisis. By host and…

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S5 E1: In the Beginning

  • January 24, 2022
A photo taken of Genesis 1:28 in the Christian Bible with several words glowing red. Photo: John Biewen. Edit: Mara Guevarra.

The climate emergency is here. In the first four episodes of our series, we explore the questions: How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast from @KenanEthics. Season 5: "The Repair," on the climate emergency. How did we go so wrong, and who's 'we'?

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27 Nov

Proud to say an episode we made for the @prx series, Monumental, is live. It's a taste of our coming Season 6 miniseries on Wilmington 1898. Great work by Michael A. Betts II and the PRX team!
@rtordy @nancyrosenbaum @jedibunny @iSmashFizzle @KenanEthics

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24 Nov

Below is Bernie Sanders from his NYTimes op-ed. No question, Oct 7 was a wrenching blow to Israelis.

Now let's do the 12,000 people Israel has killed so far in response. If Palestinians had the U.S. population, per capita that would be:

more than 800,000 ... people ... dead.

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23 Nov

As many children have been killed in Gaza in just a few weeks as the total number of children killed in armed conflicts globally in 2021 and 2022 combined, according to UN figures. Since Oct 7, one child in Gaza has been killed every 10 minutes on average.

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22 Nov

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22 Nov

Black voters filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new state Senate districts that were enacted last month by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The lawsuit alleges that the districts violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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