Gabe and Rick speak with Dr. Will Steffens, lead scientist for a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene” which examines to the possibilities that  our planet could slip into a Hothouse Earth and how we are to avoid this outcome which could be monumentally catastrophic.

Our guest is Dr. James Conca who is discussing the proposed Green New Deal and why it falls far short of a real solution and what an ideal Green New Deal would look like. Gabe is joined by cohost Tom Blees.  James Conca is a PhD scientist in the field of the earth and environmental sciences for 31 years, and a regular columnist for Forbes Magazine.  Tom Blees is the President of The Science Council for Global Initiatives.

Gabe and Eric interview author, Richard Rhodes, on his latest book, Energy, A Human History. Richard Rhodes is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, and has  received research and writing fellowships from the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.

Gabe and Rick speak with prominent journalist Will Boisvert    prominent journalist Will Boisvert  about the failed dream of an  transition from a fossil fuel and uranium based economy to 100% renewable power that has been taking place in Germany phase-out of nuclear power by 2022 followed, by Michael Shellenberger who will speak about the recent Nuclear Pride Fest in Germany.  .Michael Shellenberger is Time Magazine’s 2008 Hero of the Environment.  He is the head of Environmental Progress and  Co-Author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.   Will Boisvert writes on energy, environmental, and urban policy for The New York Observer, The Breakthrough Institute and other publications, and writes the Progress and Peril blog at progressandperil.com.  He has written a provocative article in the popular Left wing magazine, Dissent , entitled Green Energy Bust in Germany where he dissects Germany’s ambitious plan to transform its energy sector also known as the Energiewende.

Rick & Gabe host a panel discussion on the state of the environmental movement and the widespread illusions within environmentalism concerning a return to nature as opposed to advancing to a higher level of civilization. The panel consists of two prominent authors and journalists: Leigh Phillips and Dr. Christian Parenti as well as Breakthrough Institute Fellow, Dr.Jennifer Bernstein. Dr. Bernstein is a long standing environmentalist and lecturer at the University of Southern California where she analyzes and addresses environmental problems and social justice issues. Leigh Phillips is the author of “Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn Addicts" and Dr. Parenti has won numerous journalistic awards and has received an Emmy nomination for the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi. His latest book is "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence."

Gabe Ignetti and Eric Schmitz interview best selling author, leading scholar, and environmental activist, Mark Lynas, on his body of work including his latest book, The Seeds of Science: Why We Got it So Wrong on GMOs.

Rick is joined by journalist, author and Genetic Literacy Project executive director Jon Entine in interviewing Academy Award nominated Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of the provocative new documentary Food Evolution, narrated by astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson. They are joined by prominent agricultural scientists Kevin Folta and Alison van Eenennaam. The documentary presents the evidence for and against the question of the safety of GMOs in our farming and food system, looks at the various crops that have been developed using crop biotechnology and explores how and why our food production has become such a hot button public issue. It also addresses the questions of ‘corporate control’ of our food system and the role that activist nonprofits are playing in attempting to discredit agricultural biotechnology.

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PART II - Ecomodernist Space Podcast featuring famed futurist Isaac Arthur, Dr. James Powell, inventor of the Maglev and Startram space launch concept and former NASA Hall of Fame astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz and current CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company on the importance of our future in space and the necessity of revolutionary advances in space launch and propulsion systems to reach our goals in space as well as the enormous potential that space holds for human prosperity and ecological preservation on Earth .

Ecomodernist Space Podcast featuring famed futurist Isaac Arthur, Dr. James Powell, inventor of the Maglev and Startram space launch concept and former NASA Hall of Fame astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz and current CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company on the importance of our future in space and the necessity of revolutionary advances in space launch and propulsion systems to reach our goals in space as well as the enormous potential that space holds for human prosperity and ecological preservation on Earth .

Gabe Ignetti & Eric Schmitz speak with Dr. Steve Novella and Dr. David Gorski, representing the Society for Science-Based Medicine about the onslaught of psuedoscience coming out of the natural medicine industry.