Not Fit Caretakers for the Planet: World on Fire and Oceans Facing Death
Weekly Program
Orpheus Reed (Writer on Environmental Issues for Revolution newspaper);Alex Rogers (Scientist/Professor/Scientific Director of the International Program on the State of the Ocean)
Orpheus Reed on the sixth extinction. For many years, scientists have studied the decline of wild species and actual extinctions. Many warn that the current level of extinction is a crisis, that we are approaching, the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history. October, 2013, the International Programme on the State of the Ocean issued a report on the impact of climate change, pollution, decline of coral reefs and fishing. Its results are alarming. Alex Rogers will join us to talk about the this.
Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Federico Garcia - Engineer
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