SPHERE is a podcast that investigates the historical evolution of global environmental governance through in-depth discussions with a wide array of scholars, scientists, and practitioners—including politicians, diplomats and other government officials—who have played decisive roles in shaping the course of environmental politics, science and activism over the past half century or more. The podcast provides invaluable insights, expertise and first-person oral histories encompassing the entire post-WWII “Great Acceleration” of rapid economic growth and environmental degradation that gave rise to the environmental awakening of the 1960s and after. SPHERE also covers current conceptual developments such as the Anthropocene and debates on climate change and the global sustainable development goals that will underpin the agenda of the upcoming “Stockholm+50” conference, marking the semi-centennial of the seminal 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. SPHERE the podcast is an extension of the ERC-funded research project SPHERE—Study of the Planetary Human-Environment Relationship—centered at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, which generated an enormous amount of concern, controversy and criticism for its neo-Malthusian predictions of famine and mass death, is considered a milestone in the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The Stanford biologist has ever since remained in the spotlight as a public scientist and institution builder, and now, 55 years after The Population Bomb, has finally published his memoirs, Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics, on Yale University Press. In this episode of the SPHERE podcast, Prof. Ehrlich shares personal experiences and reflects on some of the central scientific and political issues of his long career engaged with questions related to environment and governance.
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