Radio Curious discusses human extinction with Dr. Guy McPherson, co-author of âExtinction Dialogs:Â How to Live With Death in Mindâ and Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.
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Imagine the human habitat in which we all live changing so rapidly that life as we know it is extinguished. Temperatures that are getting hotter than ever, decades long droughts, catastrophic fires, melting polar ice, rising sea levels, and unprecedented winter storms are expected to radically limit food production and availability of potable water.  In this, the first of a series on near term extinction of the human species, we visit with Dr. Guy R. McPherson, Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. Professor McPherson is co-author with Carolyn Baker of âExtinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mind.â  Together they present what appears to be overwhelming scientific evidence that our environment is headed for swift apocalyptic collapse. Not only is this extinction likely, it is occurring every day. âHow to live with death in mindâ is the goal:  Living with urgency is the practice.  The point from which average global temperature rise (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201507) is measured dates back to 1750, the beginning of the industrial revolution, the time at which the ever increasing use of fossil fuels began. Since 1750, the planet has warmed by more than 1 degree centigrade.  McPherson's book âExtinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mind,â explains how this small global rise in temperature is leading to a large scale mass extinction on the planet.  When Guy McPherson and I visited by phone on September 14, 2015, while he was traveling near New York, we began our conversation when I asked him to describe the indicators that reveal we're in an era of unstoppable climate change.
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