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Connections: Astrophysicist Adam Frank on climate change narratives

Connections Podcast

English - October 30, 2019 18:19 - 50 minutes - 2.94 KB - ★★★★★ - 95 ratings
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Astrophysicist Adam Frank recently wrote a piece for the Washington Post that addressed narratives about climate change. In the piece, titled, “Reframing climate change as a story of human evolutionary success,” Frank writes that this new narrative does not let humans off the hook when it comes to their role in causing climate change. In that spirit, we sit down with Frank to discuss recent climate change narratives from Hollywood – films like “Ad Astra” and television shows like “The Expanse.” He helps us break them down. In studio: Adam Frank , author and professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester During this conversation, Adam Frank discussed the books "American War," by Omar El Akkad, and "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalup.

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