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  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 9 2023
    Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one of humanity’s great revolutions – the 1950s Great Acceleration has transformed Earth’s surface completely, hurtling our planet into an uncertain future.
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    59 Min.
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 17 2023
    After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best observed in the rock record. A Canadian geologist relishes the moment. And, a First Nations elder reflects on the lake of her dreams and memories.
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    58 Min.
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 23 2023
    Artificial Intelligence: existential threat to humanity, or just to basic civil rights? Personal DNA testing – you never know what you’ll find. And, Forever Chemicals in the blood of pregnant mums and their babies.
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    59 Min.
  • Green Planet Monitor Podcast

    Green Planet Monitor Podcast
    Jul 30 2023
    Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th anniversary. And, armed drones. Canada wants to buy some.
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    59 Min.
  • Little Boy and Fat Man

    Little Boy and Fat Man
    Aug 4 2023
    Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific Island nation that paid the other ultimate price, turning America into a nuclear-armed superpower.
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    Weniger als 1 Minute
  • No Immediate Danger

    No Immediate Danger
    Aug 13 2023
    Long debunked: the mythology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of the mushroom clouds, nuclearism's dark expanding circle. And, the world’s latest new weapon: killer robots. No immediate danger.
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    59 Min.
  • Poisonous Legacies

    Poisonous Legacies
    Aug 20 2023
    Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And, the Anthropocene. A geologist talks about humanity's transformation of Planet Earth.
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    59 Min.
  • Bosses Old & New

    Bosses Old & New
    Aug 27 2023
    In West Africa, French colonialism officially ended in the 1960s. Six decades later, neocolonialism lives on. These days, America is the world’s preeminent imperial power and NATO its most powerful tool. In Cambodia, French colonists are long gone. Military chiefs and their rich clients rule the roost, much to the detriment of biodiverse ecosystems.
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    52 Min.