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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.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 1 min readScientists 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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Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Adam Frank
professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester; author of “Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth”
The full episode
3 of 5Taking politics out of the climate change debate- 0:00What are moderate voters looking for in a presidential candidate?
- 8:08As impeachment inquiry ratchets up, who are the ‘Three Amigos?’
- 18:13Reframing climate change as a symptom of evolutionary successYou’re reading this
- 27:04Country star Tanya Tucker on her first album in nearly 20 years
- 42:47Remembering Scotty Bowers, the ‘male madame to the stars’