7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir
Mind the Shift29 Heinä 2020

7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir

”This is like a bushfire. If there is one spark, this thing will catch fire”, says epidemiologist Debby Guha-Sapir about the fact that authorities stopped measles vaccinations due to covid-19. Debby founded the world’s best and most reliable database on natural disasters, EM-DAT, at the university of Louvain, Belgium. Dry numbers can be more contentious than you think: ”We get a lot of hate mails about the fact that our data doesn’t show that disasters are increasing. Nobody wants good news.”

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35. The lockdown policy is a huge, terrible experiment – Martin Kulldorff

35. The lockdown policy is a huge, terrible experiment – Martin Kulldorff

”I am actually astunned. I don't understand it. All the pandemic preparedness plans were there, and they were just ignored.” The words are Martin Kulldorff’s, professor of medicine at Harvard, and he ...

25 Marras 202048min

34. The future starts now – Bronwyn Williams

34. The future starts now – Bronwyn Williams

”A lot of people today are deferring their future to a very limited number of leaders – political leaders and powerful tech company leaders. That’s a tragedy.” ”There is a sense of ’postalgia’: a hank...

18 Marras 20201h 8min

33. The perfect one-size-fits-all doomsday story – Vitezslav Kremlik

33. The perfect one-size-fits-all doomsday story – Vitezslav Kremlik

In the mainstream journalistic and activist narrative, climate change is happening but skeptics deny that. ”That’s a crazy argument. Nobody denies that the climate is changing”, says Vitezslav Kremlik...

11 Marras 20201h 7min

32. Liberation from the matrix

32. Liberation from the matrix

You are not the labels that are put on you. You are not the roles you play. You cannot be defined by your political preference, class, profession, marital status, sexuality, citizenship, favorite foot...

8 Marras 202015min

31. We have changed as a species, governance should follow suit – Corin Ism*

31. We have changed as a species, governance should follow suit – Corin Ism*

If you had the power to start society from scratch, meaning the world would be one large common, how would you organize it? What rules would you set? If any? Corin Ism has done that experiment. She ha...

4 Marras 20201h 16min

30. We are a species with amnesia – Michael Tellinger

30. We are a species with amnesia – Michael Tellinger

If you’re not used to venturing far outside the mainstream: buckle up, you’re in for a ride. The South African writer, scientist, explorer and activist Michael Tellinger tells about our ancient histor...

28 Loka 20201h 38min

29. Defending democracy in our time – Folke Tersman

29. Defending democracy in our time – Folke Tersman

How can democracy catch up with the globalized economy? ”It’s surprising that inequality increases even in democratic systems”, says Folke Tersman, a professor of practical philosophy at the universit...

21 Loka 20201h 2min

28. Five takeaways from the pandemic – and they’re not what you think

28. Five takeaways from the pandemic – and they’re not what you think

This pandemic shall pass, like everything does. But things won’t go back to exactly where they were. We will see whether these strange times will prove to be a watershed or something less significant....

17 Loka 202020min

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