Category Archives: Climate Change

The MWS Podcast 84: Mark Williams on the impact of humans on the biosphere

Climate Change, Science

Our guest today is Mark Williams who is a professor of paleobiology at the University of Leicester. He’s the co-author, along with Jan Zalasiewicz of The Goldilocks Planet: The 4 billion year story of Earth’s Climate and has published several peer reviewed papers on paleobiology, paleoenvironments and paleoclimates in conjunction with other researchers including his latest ‘The Anthropocene Biosphere’ which explores the impact of humans from a geological perspective on the biosphere. It also looks at how humans are potentially driving a sixth mass extinction and this will be the topic of our discussion today.

If you’d like to pursue this topic further you can download the Anthropocene Biosphere paper here. In addition, a couple of books Mark recommended are: Dodging Extinction – Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth by Tony Barnosky and The Anthropocene. The human era and how it shapes our planet by Christian Schwägerl


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The MWS Podcast 81: Amelia Womack on Ecocide and Environmental Law

Climate Change, Politics, ,

We are joined today by Amelia Womack, who is a British politician and deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Following a BSc in Environmental Biology, Amelia completed an MSc in environmental technology at Imperial College London in 2013, with a thesis entitled Who’s afraid of Environmental Law? – How the law of ecocide can secure our environment for business resilience. She has been an active campaigner on this issue since then and this will be the theme of our discussion today.


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The MWS Podcast 68: Jonathon Porritt on his book ‘The World We Made’

Climate Change,

This week’s guest is the environmentalist Jonathon Porritt who is the founder director of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. He’s the former chair of the Green Party and former director of Friends of the Earth. He’s going to talk to us today about his latest book ‘The World we Made: Alex McKay’s Story from 2050’ and the prospects for people engaging with the issue of climate change in general.


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The MWS Podcast 57: Lynne Franks on Women’s Empowerment & Sustainability

Climate Change, gender, Podcast,

Lynne was the founder of one of the UK’s best-known PR consultancies in the 1970’s. She has in recent years focused her attention on women’s issues especially in regard to women’s empowerment and sustainability and this is the topic of our discussion.


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The MWS Podcast 47: Ha Vinh Tho on the Gross National Happiness Project in Bhutan

Climate Change, Economics, Ethics, Politics, , ,

Today’s guest is Dr. Ha Vinh Tho, the Programme Director of the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan. He’s here to talk to us about the project, it’s underlying philosophy, how it’s applied, the challenges it faces and how it might relate to the Middle Way.


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