Uh, Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Colbert

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Elizabeth Colbert has a devastatingly clear eyed view of how we have altered the planet and our prospects for preserving it or, or reversing any of those alterations. I'll tell you what it seems to me to be a really plausible scenario for 30 or 40 years from now. It's quite possible that that same future will have, um, hardly anybody with all electricity, hardly anybody without running, running water. Is that a bad world or a good one? Oof.

This week Adam welcomes an author whose book blew his mind more than perhaps any other. Americans are typically taught that prior to the arrival of European settlers, indigenous communities were sparsely populated, lacked technology, and did little to shape the natural landscape. But as this week’s guest Charles C. Mann’s 1491 tells Adam, the most recent research reveals that the American indigenous civilizations were sophisticated, dynamic, and massively populated. Purchase his books 1491 and 1493 at http://factuallypod.com/books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.