Cognitive Coherence

Air travel feels routine—but its impact on the climate is anything but. This episode explores how airplanes contribute to global warming, why their effects linger, and what it means for a world hooked on flight.

What exactly are climate tipping points—and why do they matter? This episode introduces the concept, highlights key systems on the brink, and invites reflection on what it means to live in a world edging toward irreversible change.

What does sustainability really mean—and where does it begin? This episode lays the groundwork for understanding sustainability not as a trend, but as a mindset rooted in systems, limits, and long-term thinking.

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"Making peace with nature is the defining task of 21st century"

“Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly” - Bill Gaede

“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility for our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven” - Chuck Palahniuk, Damned

“We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river, those same experiences, and those yet to come, continue to influence and reshape the person we are, and the person we become. None of us are the same as we were yesterday, nor will be tomorrow.”