Our topic this week: “The Trouble with Billionaires, Why Too Much Money at the Top Is Bad for Everyone.” You’ll hear directly from the authors of that book, tax Professor Neil Brooks, and journalist Linda McQuaig.  Now that Donald Trump appointed scads of  …

Retrospective 2009 program “Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)” and two new interviews. MD Paul David Blanc on his new book “Fake Silk, the Lethal History of Viscose Rayon”. Plus, as billions head into unprepared cities, Ipek Gencsu on a report from  …

Greenland has been bare in human times, and may be again soon.  Stunning new science from Joerg Schaefer.  Journalist Robert Hunziker: Japan’s shameful conspiracy to silence Fukushima disaster for the Olympics.  Plus notes on the long shadow of Trump’s climate denial.

How can we go on living with impossible problems? Green writer David Fleming influenced the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement, & new economics. Fleming passed away in 2010, leaving an unpublished dictionary for our survival. Writer & editor Shaun Chamberlin picked  …

Climate scientist Paul Beckwith will tell us why sea ice around the world is in retreat, and what it means for our weather.  Is it a planetary climate emergency?  From the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, Dr. Klaus Lackner explains capturing carbon from  …

Scientist Tobias Friedrich says Earth could heat up as much as 6 degrees Centigrade, almost 11 degrees F, in a single lifetime. Richard Heede finds just 83 companies, plus 7 countries, are responsible for 65% of all greenhouse gases. He names names. Then  …

From the deep past, a shocking discovery that plants can shift the climate.  Oh oh.  From UC Davis, Isabel Montañez amazing science.  Then veteran diplomat David Brown on the climate-driven demise of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam – the first mass casualty.  Radio  …

Michael Brownlee is the author of “The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself in Uncertain Times”. We glean tips and directions from his ten year struggle in Colorado localization. Robert Muir-Wood is a top adviser to governments, insurance, and business on  …

American oceanographer John Englander, author of “High Tide on Main Street” explains the great march inland of rising seas.  From UK, Dr. Ted Shepherd: how Arctic heating creates weird weather in the Northern Hemisphere.  Radio Ecoshock 161026

For some reason, perhaps deep in our past, humans easily fixate on catastrophe, whether real or imaginary. Does the nation, the economy, or even civilization need to collapse in order to start anew? Who benefits if we think like that, and would things  …