Pilot Episode: "Nature" 18min

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It’s important when wrestling with any moment to define the words we think we know. The first episode explores and possibly fails to define just one word: Nature.
Then in our arts review section we will hear from the book that launched the environmental movement in the 1960s and listen to the song it inspired about paving paradise and putting up a parking lot...
Literature Review: "Contested Natures" Phil Macnaghten & John Urry 1998 LINK HERE

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. 1962
http://www.rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi (BBC - 1969)

Thanks to Christy Hartman
SERIES INTRO
Welcome to "History of the Future" a podcast lecture series on the humanities response to climate crisis. Science tends to dominate the conversation on climate change, this is an attempt to wrestle some of the discussion back to the humanities. I say back because, as you will see, the symptoms are measurable and wholly scientific but climate change is the exhaust of a lifestyle. Science is the consequence, humanities, humanity, is how we got here.  

I’m Jake Warga, welcome back to college. The content of this series comes from courses I’ve taught on the history of climate change at Stanford University and the University of Washington.

Each episode will consist of a lecture based on one topic then end with a segment reviewing a film/song/literature’s response to the crisis, and the occasional guest speaker if this becomes at all popular. 

Links to mentioned sources and optional readings  will be posted on the episode page where you will also find a discussion board to ask questions, share your comments and suggest future topics. This week…