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Episode 9 - Who needs the environment?

Aug 19, 2020
1h 1m

Episode Description

The climate crisis can feel irreparable. Rosie and BJ's solution to climate change? Fly off and find another planet, this one's doomed. Just kidding — kind of. The two co-hosts believe we can still make this world habitable without having to blast-off.

Resources for Saving the World

📚 "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," by David Wallace-Wells.

📚 "Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore," by Elizabeth Rush.

📚 "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World," by Jeff Goodell.

📚 “The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?” by Jan Zalasiewicz.

📺 Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet | The Daily Show: comedian Ronny Chieng interviews Bill Gates and his challenge to reinvent toilets.

📚 "A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George," by Kelly Carlin.

📚 "The Selfish Gene," by Richard Dawkins.

📑 "TIME Person of the Year 2019: Greta Thunberg," a TIME magazine profile by Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland.

📚 "The Future of Humanity: Our Destiny in the Universe," by Michio Kaku

📚 "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow," by Yuval Noah Harari.

Tamera, an eco-commune in Portugal.

Out of The Box, Rosie's other podcast.

⭐ "Dirty Change," a sex-education podcast by Rosie and co-host Tommy Pistol.

BJ Mendelson Newsletter, Check out BJ's newsletter

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Follow Rosie on Twitter and Instagram.

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