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Clayton Page Aldern: Climate Change Is Messing with Our Brains

https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-09-11_ClaytonAldern.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSIn this episode of Writer’s Voice, we talk with Clayton Page Aldern about The Weight of Nature, his groundbreaking new book on the impacts of climate change on our brains — from PSTD to brain-eating amoebas. Aldern explains how climate-induced stressors are shaping our mental … Continue reading Clayton Page Aldern: Climate Change Is Messing with Our Brains →

Jeff Goodell talks climate change in THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST & Suing the Fossil Fuel Industry

We talk with Jeff Goodell about how climate change is causing extreme heat that is pushing Planet Earth beyond habitable boundaries. Also, Lynn Zinser talks about climate liability lawsuits.

Ashley Dawson On Inequality & Climate Change

Ashley Dawson talks about his book Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change 

Sci-fi Imagines Climate Change: Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WATER KNIFE & SHIPBREAKER

Paolo Bacigalupi talks about his new thriller, The Water Knife. It’s about the fight over water supplies in the American Southwest that erupts when a climate-driven mega-drought hits the region. Then, we re-air portions of our 2011 interview with Bacigalupi about his sci fi novel for young adults,Shipbreaker. Also set in the climate-changed world of the near future, it takes place in Florida in a time of sea level rise.

Web Only Extra: J.A. Mills on the Climate Change Threat To Tigers

Wildlife investigator J.A. Mills tells Francesca how climate change adds to the dire threats facing wild tigers. Her book is Blood of the Tiger: A Story about Conspiracy, Greed, and the Battle to Save A Magnificent Species.

Climate Changes Everything

Naomi Klein talks about her ground-breaking new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism and The Climate. It’s about how the climate crisis could lead to a more just and safer world. Then, the Senate voted down the Keystone XL pipeline for now, but is almost certain to pass it after January. We talk with climate journalist, John Cushman, re-airing an interview with him about the pipeline and what it will mean if it’s approved.

The Social Change of Climate Change

Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute talks about the latest edition of his book PLAN B. It’s updated to PLAN B 4.0. And social change expert David Gershon talks about how to create the social and political will to do something about climate change in his book, SOCIAL CHANGE 2.0.

Climate Change, Past, Present and Future

The current climate crisis isn’t the first time human beings have faced global climate change. Extreme weather, ice sheets melting into the Arctic ocean, and mega-droughts lasting a century or more: it all happened before, between the tenth and the fifteenth centuries. The global warming of the Middle Ages changed civilization, bringing both great disorder … Continue reading Climate Change, Past, Present and Future →

Hope For The Climate Crisis: Michael Mann, OUR FRAGILE MOMENT

https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2024-01-24_MichaelMann.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSWe talk with world-renowned climate scientist Michael Mann about climate, past, present and future. His book is Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis. The world is largely past climate denialism (except for the Republican Party and … Continue reading Hope For The Climate Crisis: Michael Mann, OUR FRAGILE MOMENT →

John Berger, SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS

https://www.writersvoice.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/WV-2023-11-29_JohnBerger.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSCan we achieve 100% clean power by 2030? We spend the hour with John Berger talking about his inspiring new book, Solving The Climate Crisis: Frontier Reports From The Race To Save The Earth. Writers Voice— in depth conversation with writers of all genres, on … Continue reading John Berger, SOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS →

David Lipsky, THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO: Climate & The Science of Denial

We spend the hour with David Lipsky talking about The Parrot and The Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial. It’s about the sordid history of climate denialism and its deep roots in the industry of tobacco denialism.

Climate Week Edition: Andrew Boyd, I WANT A BETTER CATASTROPHE & Chuck Collins, ALTAR TO AN ERUPTING SUN

For Climate Week, we talk with Andrew Boyd about I Want A Better Catastrophe. Then nonfiction author Chuck Collins tells us about his debut climate action-themed novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun.

The Case For Climate Hope: Joelle Gergis, HUMANITY’S MOMENT

We spend the hour with IPCC climate scientist JoÁ«lle Gergis, talking about her powerful and moving book, Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope.

Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MINDING THE CLIMATE & Darr Reilly, The Carbon C.R.E.W. Project

Using neuroscience to move the needle on climate action. Also, the Carbon Crew Project brings friends and neighbors together to create personal climate action plans.

Bruce Holsinger, THE DISPLACEMENTS & Elizabeth Cripps, WHAT CLIMATE JUSTICE MEANS AND WHY WE SHOULD CARE

Bruce Holsinger tells us about his novel, The Displacements. Then, moral philosopher Elizabeth Cripps talks about her book, What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care.