With:Owen Gaffney

This week’s episode pays tribute to the late Prof. Hans Rosling, one of world’s most prominent public intellectuals in the realm of public health and sustainability, who radically changed perceptions of development and demographics through his gripping visual presentations of big data. The studio guest is Owen Gaffney, an expert in the communication and visualization of scientific knowledge at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. The broad discussion encompasses the life and legacy of Hans Rosling, and the crucial role of public intellectuals in communicating science for fostering public engagement with sustainability issues. Gaffney also explains the “Anthropocene Equation”, the basis of a newly-published article he co-authored with Prof. Will Steffen, which brings mathematical precision to the advent of the proposed human-dominated epoch in Earth history.

The Think Globally Radio episode Feb 12 2017