Rethink Talks

The age of humans is messing things up in many different ways. Not only is human pressure on the environment changing the earth system in unprecedented ways, trust in science is faltering while media and journalism remains fragmented. The consequence is a siloed world at a time when trust and collaboration is sorely needed. Science communication requires creativity, joy, perseverance, the courage to try something new and, actively finding ways to work around the weaknesses in the system.

In this episode, Andrew Merrie talks to Maddie Stone, a freelance science journalist and previously the managing editor of the Gizmodo Earther ‘Nature for Nerds’ blog. Her work has appeared in outlets such as Vice, National Geographic, Grist, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and more. Andrew also talks to Owen Gaffney, a sustainability communicator and strategist for organizations such as the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Global Commons Alliance. Together they ask, how can we share and explain science in a world beset by fast change and a lack of trust? And can science fiction help?

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/communicating-science-in-the-age-of-the-anthropocene/

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Right now, the very idea of imagining the future might feel strange when the world is changing in ways we barely even understand. In this episode, we ask, is a safe and just future for all still possible? And what will it take to imagine and enact these kinds of futures?

Host Andrew Merrie is joined by two people who spend much of their time thinking about this: Garry Peterson from the Stockholm Resilience Centre and Laura Pereira from the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/after-covid-19-imagining-a-safe-and-just-future-for-all/

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Economies around the world have been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed serious vulnerabilities and weaknesses. What can we learn from today’s crisis to build more resilience into our systems?

In this episode, host Robert Blasiak talks to Lisen Schultz from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Sturla Henriksen, Special Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

More info: https://rethink.earth/building-business-resilience-what-has-covid-19-taught-us/

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Digital technologies have created an information deluge. It is impossible to keep up with the flood. But digital technologies have also changed the flow of information in the world; the old gatekeepers like the media are now bypassed. What does this mean during a crisis when we need to make rapid decisions under uncertainty and we need to act collectively?

In this episode media strategist Owen Gaffney speaks to Kate Starbird, an associate professor at the University of Washington and expert on the use of communications technologies in times crisis. Owen also talks to Victor Galaz, associate professor and deputy director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University who studies the spread of disinformation online.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/sense-making-in-crisis/

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We are in the midst of a devastating pandemic. The coronavirus that leads to covid-19 is known to be a zoonotic disease - a virus that has spilled over from non-human animals to humans, and then rapidly moved across the world with devastating impacts on human health, economies and social stability.

How strong is the connection between environmental change and diseases such as coronaviruses connection, can we really blame bats, and what does the future of disease risks look like?

In this episode, Victor Galaz talks to Kate Jones from University College London and Peter Søgaard Jørgensen from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Both researchers are experts on the links between ecology, disease and global change.

More information, including links to mentioned publications: https://rethink.earth/pandemics-health-and-global-change-how-are-they-connected/

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