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"A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made" (Encore Presentation)

Aired on Tuesday, May 3rd.

(Please note: This show first aired last November.) Our guest on this edition of ST is Gaia Vince, a British journalist and broadcaster specializing in science and the environment. She's been the editor of the journal Nature Climate Change, the news editor of Nature, and the online editor of New Scientist, and she joins us to discuss her latest book: "Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made." The so-called Anthropocene -- or the Age of Man -- has brought, of course, widespread and dramatic change to the face of the earth. Indeed, while previous shifts from one geological epoch to another were caused by events beyond human control, the Anthropocene, as an era, is actually defined as the age in which humanity's century-long emission of carbon into the atmosphere has altered the planet's biology, geography, ecology, topography, and so on. As Ken Caldeira of Stanford University has noted: “[This is] a beautifully written book that raises the most profound question of our time: 'How should we live?' In the past this has been primarily a personal question, but now it has become the central question for us as a species -- and the fate of nearly every species on our planet (including our own) rests on our answer." You can learn more about this book -- and can hear a free, on-demand "stream" of our interview with Gaia Vince -- at this link.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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