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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Reframing climate change as a symptom of evolutionary success

Scientists say climate change is an urgent problem that needs drastic action, but not everyone buys it.

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KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Oct 16, 2019 • 1 min read

Scientists say climate change is an urgent problem that needs drastic action, but not everyone buys it. And so, astrophysics professor Adam Frank suggests that we should reframe the debate in a more positive light. Rather than place blame, he believes we should talk about climate change as a story of humanity’s evolutionary success.

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    radio journalist

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    Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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    Adam Frank

    professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester; author of “Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth”

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