Peter: I think humans are naturally good, and we don't need all this material stuff to be happy. He says there can be some chaos in the decade, but ultimately we may aa stair step down into a lower through put culture. But i think humans in the past have responded to crises in emergent ways - that gives me hope. And educating young people both in our country and world wide is my greatest hope towards aspiring living differently than we have been. Lik evolution is an amazing thing, right? So ther're we co-opting death on doctor peter too! To hear more of Peter's future simplification podcast click here.
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earths history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
About Peter Ward:
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/08-peter-ward