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Wim Carton & Andreas Malm: Overshoot & Climate Breakdown | Urgent Futures #39
🎙 Jesse sits down with 'Overshoot' co-authors to discuss the climate politics, philosophies, and strategies that are destroying the biosphere and…
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1:32:19
"The Disaster After the Disaster": LA Air Quality & Public Health - Jane Williams | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #3
Listen now | I sat down with California Communities Against Toxics Executive Director to discuss the extremely toxic pollutants still in the air…
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55:45
The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and AI in 2025 and Beyond - John Vervaeke | #38
🎙 Jesse sits down with renowned professor and public intellectual to discuss the nature of intelligence, rationality, wisdom, meaning in life…
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The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2
Time to get real about our futures—which are "already here, just not evenly distributed."
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27:58

December 2024

Art Berman: Oil, How the Economics of Energy Impacts Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address | #37
🎙 Jesse sits down with renowned energy expert to discuss why energy is such a critical component of geopolitics & why 'energy blindness' is putting…
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2:05:10
Peter Brannen: What You Need to Know About the Five Mass Extinctions (to Understand the Sixth Extinction) | #36
🎙 Jesse sits down with 'Ends of the World' expert to discuss past mass extinctions, what caused them, and what we should learn from them to avoid…
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1:52:30
Phoebe Barnard: The Human Behavioral Crisis is the Coordination Problem Underlying Overshoot and Climate Crisis | #35
🎙 Jesse sits down with legendary polymath to discuss environmental futures, civilizational shift, regeneration & restoration, and the role of media and…
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November 2024

Rodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34
🎙 Jesse sits down with legendary conservationist to discuss what we must do to preserve life on Earth, the role of science & media, and 'Before They…
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1:39:28
Harry Yeff (Reeps100): The Future of the Voice—Human, Machine, & Otherwise | #33
🎙 Jesse sits down with famed beatboxer and new media artist to discuss chess, the development of his beatboxing craft, AI, precious voices, and more.
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Simon Michaux: Is the Green Transition Doomed? Why We Need the 'Purple Transition' Instead | #32
🎙 Jesse sits down with renegade geometallurgist to discuss the material realities of the energy transition, circular economy solutions, and unpacking…
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Trump's Election, the End of the World Order as We Know It, & Where We Go From Here | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #1
The election results are bigger than American politics. Let's discuss what it might mean.
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15:28

October 2024

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