Yale Historian Sunil Amrith - How Humanity Reshaped the Planet
Yale historian and MacArthur ‘genius’ Sunil Amrith shares a paradigm-shifting survey of human history's imprint on the earth, and where we go from here.
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Show Notes
In the last five centuries, humankind has brought change to every inch of the Earth, in a story of environment and empire, of genocide and ecocide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Asking whether humanity can now summon the collective wisdom to save itself, Professor Sunil Amrith joins the podcast to share a history of environmentalism from the perspective of social justice.
Arguing for an empathetic approach to climate usage, Professor Amrith shares why environmentalism is ill-suited to headlines, and reveals the human stories that can compel us to take action. Tune in to understand why it will be the artists, not the technocrats, who determine what happens next.
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