7. Weather extremes may be less extreme than you think – Debby Guha-Sapir
Mind the Shift29 Jul 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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11. Ask the whole world the whole time and you know what’s going on – Bi Puranen

11. Ask the whole world the whole time and you know what’s going on – Bi Puranen

Hear the experienced and highly respected ”global trend guru” Bi Puranen explain some of the social mega-trends that we are seeing today. On the Pandemic: ”Lockdowns have caused a lot more harm than t...

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10. The stable imbalances of nature – Josef Reichholf

10. The stable imbalances of nature – Josef Reichholf

The experienced, sharp-minded, productive and – to some – controversial German ecologist Josef Reichholf is a humble Bavarian scientist who realized early on that he couldn’t compromise with his consc...

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9. Learning to handle the lizard brain – Andreas Bergh

9. Learning to handle the lizard brain – Andreas Bergh

Shouldn’t an economist count money all the time? ”No”, is the unequivocal answer from Andreas Bergh, associate professor in economics at Lund university in southern Sweden. In this episode you can hea...

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8. The power of empowering women – Bernadette Ssebadduka

8. The power of empowering women – Bernadette Ssebadduka

In this episode we meet UNFPA doctor Bernadette ”Bernie” Ssebadduka, who dedicates her working hours to fighting harmful cultural practices in poor rural areas in northern Uganda, such as ”courtship r...

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6. It shouldn’t lead only if it bleeds – Ulrik Haagerup

6. It shouldn’t lead only if it bleeds – Ulrik Haagerup

”The most important weapons for terrorists isn’t Kalashnikovs or suicide bombs, it’s journalists. We journalists are part of the problem of trust meltdown in society. Now we have to be part of the sol...

29 Jul 20201h 2min

5. Doing good better – Stefan Schubert

5. Doing good better – Stefan Schubert

Why our charity is so ineffective. Why (just possibly) there is reason for optimism. And why we should plan for an extremely long-term future. Hear this Oxford psychology/philosophy researcher and Eff...

22 Jul 20201h 12min

4. Some say failure is blessing in disguise – James Finney

4. Some say failure is blessing in disguise – James Finney

”If life is a game, then the barriers are the game. If you wanna play big you need big barriers, if not you want smaller barriers. The mechanism is the same.” This brit calls himself an expert on fail...

22 Jul 20201h 3min

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