What UnEarth

In Episode 08 we explore the fundamental problem of modern economics and how it is designed to be antithetical to ecology. That a diamond cost millions but basically does nothing. While a trees are source for eternal life, we clear them faster than a teenage boy clearing his search history. The problem is not money by itself, the problem is when we assume that everything that can be valued is in fact valued, correctly, in money, by the market. 

Join me as I speak to Dr Gurudas Nulkar. Dr Nulkar is the Sir Ratan Tata Post Doctor Fellow at ISEC Bangalore, the Endeavour Executive fellow at Deakin University Melbourne, and currently working as the Head of Department for Strategy and General Management at SCMHRD Pune. He is also a trustee at the Ecological Society, Pune and has written several books on the intersection between economics and environment.

Dr Nulkar helped me understand that reasons for why the modern economic system, why the gdp is by itself ineffective in understading the level of human prosperity, why farmers continue to get the short end of the stick, how genuine alternatives to our current economic system exist, are real and thriving, but more importantly, why ecology and economy start with the same three letters in this week’s What UnEarth.

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Life is uncertain. It is chaotic, it is complex and it confounds us.  Our eternal quest as humans has been to make sense of the world we inhabit, the realities we perceive, and the existence that has been thrust upon us. Poetry, philosophy, psychology, religion, art are all systems attempting to answer the same fundamental question – what the hell is going on?

In attempting to answer this rather eloquently framed question, science has been our best bet so far.

Joining me today is Dr Chirag  Dhara, a quantum physicist and Research Associate at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. With him I attempt to find out just how settled is the scientific communities consensus on climate change, how is a twitter storm analogous to a climate tipping point, how a 1.5 degrees temperature change is much worse than it sounds, and why East India is going to continue being in the company of cyclones, floods, and storm surges in this weeks What UnEarth.

Link for IITM's 2020 Climate Change Report https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811543265

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Dr Chirag Dhara explains how solid the science behind anthropogenic climate change is.

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Dr Shripad Dharmadhikary talks to us about the extent of the water crisis in India, how powerful vested interests are ensuring that a water stressed country continues to remain so, how Public Private Partnerships manage to successfully integrate the worst parts of both the government and corporations, and how the Draft EIA Notification 2020 is essentially a death knell for environmental conservation law and policy. 

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Shripad Dharmadhikary on how despite having all the solutions, society is still far from harmony. 

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