Nathan Walworth | How Storytelling Affects Climate Policy

07/16/19 • 97 min

Nathan Walworth (@dr.nate.dogg) is a climate scientist and researcher at USC, the Co-Founder of regenerative lifestyle company Covalence, and the Co-Founder of the NEXUS Futurism Working Group.

What we discuss with Nathan Walworth:

Our responsibility to raise AI algorithms like our virtual children.
How we can bridge the digital divide with adaptive learning & AI.
What a degrowth economy could look like.
Evolution of festival culture (e.g. Lightning in a Bottle) as a reflection of the evolution of consciousness.
How storytelling and marketing affects climate policy.
Fashion as a mating call that drives materialism and perpetuates climate change.
The ethics of synthetic biology (e.g. creating artificial meat) in the context of the GMO vs organic debate.

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Music: "We Don't Know How it Ends" by Lee Rosevere

Nathan Walworth (@dr.nate.dogg) is a climate scientist and researcher at USC, the Co-Founder of regenerative lifestyle company Covalence, and the Co-Founder of the NEXUS Futurism Working Group.

What we discuss with Nathan Walworth:

Our responsibility to raise AI algorithms like our virtual children.
How we can bridge the digital divide with adaptive learning & AI.
What a degrowth economy could look like.
Evolution of festival culture (e.g. Lightning in a Bottle) as a reflection of the evolution of consciousness.
How storytelling and marketing affects climate policy.
Fashion as a mating call that drives materialism and perpetuates climate change.
The ethics of synthetic biology (e.g. creating artificial meat) in the context of the GMO vs organic debate.

Enjoy this show? Please leave a review here.

Music: "We Don't Know How it Ends" by Lee Rosevere

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The history of UBI within the context of the evolution of consciousness.

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