Climate Futures

by Annelisa Kingsbury Lee

How are we going to live with anthropogenic global warming? Climate Futures at Harvard talks to professors, activists, and experts about possible social and technical futures of an increasingly unstable world. This season, Climate Futures hunts down big ideas from Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate sci-fi novel Ministry for the Future. 
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Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • S02 E03 - Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Climate Futures

    S02 E03 - Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Climate Futures

    What can political theory offer us in thinking about climate change? This episode we talk to OSU Professor Joel Wainwright, a human geographer, whose book Climate Leviathan (co-authored with Geoff Mann) asks: how can we imagine th...

    24:11

  • S02 E02 - A World-Changing Event: Indigenous Climate Geographies

    S02 E02 - A World-Changing Event: Indigenous Climate Geographies

    Does land have to be a resource? Do economies have to be aimed at production? Professor Andrew Curley and PhD candidate Majerle Lister talk to us about indigenous scholarship's answers to these questions and shed light on the rela...

    30:49

  • S02 E01 - Greening Healthcare

    S02 E01 - Greening Healthcare

    Kathy Gerwig chats with us about the health effects of climate change and the carbon emissions of healthcare systems, and outlines her vision of the hospital of the future. Gerwig was the driving force behind the greening of one o...

    29:18

  • Season 1

  • S01 E04 - Solar Geoengineering

    S01 E04 - Solar Geoengineering

    Harvard’s Professor David Keith might just be the world’s foremost solar geoengineering researcher. He talks to Climate Futures about the extraordinary plan to inject sulfur into the stratosphere and cool the planet. This plan mig...

    28:34

  • S01 E03 - The Climate Coin

    S01 E03 - The Climate Coin

    Dr. Delton Chen’s Carbon Reward was the direct inspiration for Kim Stanley Robinson’s writing on a climate blockchain. Dr. Chen argues that we need a whole new type of carbon pricing: a currency that rewards carbon mitigation, in ...

    29:47