Planet: Critical Podcast
1) Update on new website
Hi everyone,I’ve designed the new Planet: Critical website and I want your feedback. If there’s any sections, groupings, design changes that you’d like to see—or flaws you notice—I’ll spend the next w...Show More
2) Health Begins With Earth | Sharon Friel
Doctors are tasked with an impossible job: Keep our bodies healthy while Earth’s collapses. Our healthcare systems are already under-funded and over-stretched, and that’s before we throw in the drasti...Show More
3) China's Leverage | Kenneth Hammond
Is China the next world leader? Ken Hammond is a professor of history at New Mexico State University, where he specializes in the history of China in the early modern period. Author of China's Revolut...Show More
4) There Are No Simple Solutions | Jessica Hernandez
Imagine if we rolled up our sleeves instead of pointed our fingers?Jessica Hernandez is an indigenous climate scientist and author of Growing Papaya Trees. Her work reveals that the roots of our plane...Show More
5) How the Eco-Crisis is Changing Our Brains | Clayton Aldern
The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis. The number one cause of neurodegenerative disease is the environment. And our environment is changing—releasing bacteria, neurotoxins and path...Show More
6) Beyond Paradox | Iain McGilchrist
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”— Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2The two hemispheres of our brain collaborate to produce a coherent understanding of the world—at least, that’s ...Show More
7) Bad Environmentalism | Gordon Katic
Gordon Katic is the founder of the award-winning podcast production company, Cited Media. This week, they’re launching Green Dreams, the new season of their flagship podcast which tells stories of rad...Show More
8) Collapse for the 99% | Luke Kemp
Collapse has historically benefited the 99%.That’s the amazing conclusion of Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse.  Luke is a research associate at the Cen...Show More
9) Community Sufficiency | Kara Huntermoon
How can we become good ancestors? Permaculturist and educator, Kara Huntermoon, says the hobbies we pick up now can be skills we pass on to our children, even if we never have to use them ourselves. I...Show More
10) Knowing and Being | Tyson Yunkaporta
How we create knowledge is as important as the knowledge itself. This is the message of this week’s guest, Aboriginal scholar and author, Tyson Yunkaporta. In his explanation of the importance of lear...Show More