Latest Deep adaptation Podcast Episodes
Special Edition – The Price of Life
Notes From Underground - March 19, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutesSince the last episode of Notes From Underground was published, a lot has happened in the world. As the Coronavirus pandemic reaches into all of our lives, this special episode is a reflection on the encounter to which it is bringing us – a collective encounter with parental mortality on a plane...
010 – The Cost of Knowing
Notes From Underground - February 11, 2020 09:00 - 59 minutesThe climate art of Cape Farewell, Ian McEwan's novel Solar and the oil industry connections of Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand all come under scrutiny in episode 10 of Notes From Underground. This is a series of essays from Dougald Hine (co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project), explo...
009 – Crossing the Threshold
Notes From Underground - January 23, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutesEven when we know the facts of climate change, we don't seem to act as if we know – that's the observation from the sociologist Kari Norgaard which starts this week's essay in the Notes From Underground series. The theatre maker Chris Goode suggests that the difficulty might be that we lack 'a l...
008 – The Lab and the Play
Notes From Underground - January 16, 2020 09:00 - 20 minutesThis week's essay looks at the production of scientific knowledge about climate change and what we do with that knowledge. It's about the history of the relationship between science and the environmental movement, and it's about my own experiences when I was commissioned to collaborate with a cl...
007 – I Only Have One Prediction for You
Notes From Underground - January 09, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutesWhat can we say for sure about the future? The seventh instalment of Notes From Underground is about the predicament of mortality and the difficulty which modern industrial societies have in facing it. This week's essay marks the start of Part II of the series and over the next few weeks, I want...
006 – The Salvage Work
Notes From Underground - December 20, 2019 17:00 - 23 minutes"I don’t think these are times when you can sell people a vision of ‘how not only can we save the world, but we can make all of our lives better in the process.’ There’s too much loss written into the story, too much hardship around and ahead of us, whichever path we take. I think people can sme...
005 – A Common Indignation
Notes From Underground - December 12, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes'What happens next may look like failure. Or it may be a success that asks many of the questions failure would have asked of us.' The fifth episode of Notes From Underground starts in late 2018, as two movements erupt on opposite sides of the Channel: Extinction Rebellion and the gilets jaunes....
004 – Emergency Democracy
Notes From Underground - December 05, 2019 19:00 - 17 minutes'When you organise politically to demand a declaration of emergency, you cannot avoid the question of democracy. If such a declaration means anything, then it marks a fork in the road. It says that our existing political systems have failed, that they have been no match for the scale of the cris...
003 – Is There Hope?
Notes From Underground - November 28, 2019 14:00 - 14 minutes'If there is any hope worth having, in a time when we are rightly haunted by the thought of an "uninhabitable Earth", then I don’t believe it lies in the triumph of reason, nor in the recovery of an imagined past. If I have any clue where it lies, I’d say it’s in the difficult work of learning t...
002 – Pulling Out the Tablecloth
Notes From Underground - November 21, 2019 13:00 - 11 minutes'The need for economic growth is a social construct, not a law of nature, but this construct is the tablecloth on which our current society has been arranged. The question we face, as the 2020s come around, is whether we can pull the tablecloth out fast enough without smashing all the plates and...
001 – Al Gore Didn't Want You To Panic!
Notes From Underground - November 14, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutesThe last time the climate crisis was getting this much attention, it was Al Gore striding on stage to talk us through the high-end PowerPoint presentation of An Inconvenient Truth. From Greta Thunberg to Gail Bradbrook to Jem Bendell, the strange collection of public figures at the centre of the...
Last Dance - Lets Take a Vacation
Solace - October 06, 2019 15:47 - 23 minutesSo much today - why do all the local trees look so sick? We'll take a look at my neighborhood. Introducing my 'Say Goodbye to Florida' vacation coming up - what we're going to see and do and how a Yankee needs to protect themselves when going into 'Confederate' territory. News updates: Warmest S...
Last Dance: Shut Up Doomer!
Solace - September 14, 2019 22:31 - 31 minutesI'll be in NYC Saturday the 20th for Climate Strike and will be live on my You Tube channel (see below). I talk a little about why a 'doomer' is looking forward to going to Climate Strike. Dr. Kate Marvel in* Scientific American* tells Jonathan Franzen to "shut up" over his article in The New ...
Last Dance: When the Games Stop
Solace - September 07, 2019 20:46 - 19 minutesFootball season starts with the world on fire - how long can this go on? How to talk (or not) to a relative who does not believe in climate change? I'll be at Climate Strike with Greta (hopefully) on Sept. 20 in NYC My webpage - www.LastDance.blog My You Tube Channel - Last Dance https://www...
Last Dance: Bombs Away
Solace - August 26, 2019 15:15 - 27 minutesThe world continues to burn - is there hope for the Amazon? Or have we reached the point of no return? Trump wants to bomb hurricanes Existential angst time (Show and tell portion excluded from podcast. Want to see it? Check out the You Tube channel) My webpage - Last Dance My You Tube Chan...
Last Dance: What Really Matters Now
Solace - August 18, 2019 17:42 - 25 minutesIf we have a limited time left, what should our priorities be? In the news: crop disasters in the Midwest mean sharply higher food costs in the Fall We'll save Greta for later Having babies now? What should people consider? Mental health organizations springing up to help What should our pr...
Last Dance Night of the Iguana
Solace - August 11, 2019 17:39 - 32 minutesWhere to find climate support and conversation groups online Why agriculture won't change it's methods Climate change to cause bumpier flights Germany losing forests and the Rhine is drying up affecting shipping Florida invasive species - don't shoot those iguanas. Igunanas falling from tree...
Last Dance 02 19 07 28
Solace - July 28, 2019 19:20 - 24 minutesRecord heat in Europe The unseen damage of that heat that will reveal itself later July will be the hottest in history as records continue to fall Trump administration deletes climate science from .gov sites Continuing atrocity in the Amazon Comment from Tim Flannery to the BBC - climate de...
Last Dance - Introduction
Solace - July 20, 2019 23:37 - 19 minutesHello everyone - while this was a bit rushed this is the introcution to the Last Dance podcast and what I'll be covering as we go along. My webpage is lastdance.blog where you will find my latest news, links to many climate sites and climate scientists.
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