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Can We Redefine Our Relationship with Nature? Scientists, Writers & Activists Share Solutions

December 27, 2024·14 min·1 clip
A researcher realizes a humpback whale was performing an altruistic rescue, pushing her to safety from a shark.
This episode explores how to redefine humanity's relationship with nature through personal stories, scientific insights, and philosophical perspectives. Guests share experiences like a whale's altruistic rescue from a shark and discuss concepts like the circular economy and intersectional environmentalism to argue for a more reciprocal, less exploitative connection to the natural world.

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A whale story that expands into ecology, circular economy thinking, and environmental justice.

The episode opens with whales and keeps returning to the larger problem of how people understand a more-than-human world. It moves from animal communication and altruism to the whales' role in absorbing carbon and helping cool the planet, then out to ecological degradation and…

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