Radio Curious discusses human extinction with Dr. Guy McPherson, co-author of âExtinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mindâ and Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor, is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
In this, part two of our series on near term human extinction, we continue our conversation with Dr. Guy R. McPherson, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Professor McPherson is co-author with Carolyn Baker of âExtinction Dialogs:Â How to Live With Death in Mind.â McPherson presents what appears to be overwhelming scientific evidence that our environment is headed for a swift apocalyptic collapse. This is the most disturbing conversation that I have had in past 25 years as host and producer of Radio Curious.
That said, imagine the human habitat in which we all live changing so rapidly that life as we know it is extinguished. Temperatures that are getting hotter than ever, decades long droughts, catastrophic fires, melting polar ice, rising sea levels, and unprecedented winter storms are expected to radically limit food production and availability of potable water. Not only is this extinction likely, it is occurring every day. âHow to live with death in mindâ is the goal:  Living with urgency is the practice.  In part one, Dr. Guy McPherson discusses the rise of global temperature by more than 1 degree centigrade, the likelihood of a continued global warming trend in the future and some of its affects on our planet.  In this, our second visit with Prof. McPherson he explains how this small rise in global temperature is leading to a large scale mass extinction on earth. Recorded on September 14, 2015, while he was traveling in New York state, we began I asked him what abrupt extinction will look like and what will occur that will end human life on earth.  Part one of our conversation is on the Radio Curious website: www.radiocurious.org.
The books Dr. Guy McPherson recommends are âMs. Lady Bug and Mr. Honeybee: A Love Story at the End of Time,â by Pauline Panagiotou-Schneider and Guy McPherson. He also recommends the books by Edward Abbey.
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