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UnDisciplined: The surprising side of climate change - why you don't have to fear the future

Kevin Gill from Nashua, NH, United States
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You can attribute climate denialism to ignorance, tribal politics, or oligarchical manipulations. But there's another force that people don't think much about — the existential terror of accepting the truth about global warming. But what if we didn't have to be afraid?

Heard in this episode:

Hydrologist Newsha Ajami
Engineer and inventor Nate Walkingshaw
Urban planning and policy researcher Mehdi Heris
Climate Scientist Jeremy Hoffman
Population health researcher Tarik Benmarhnia
Science journalist Madeline Ostrander
Science journalist Chris Turner

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Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.