Season 3, Episode 22: Gokul

About this episode

John Whidden interviews Gokul about the intersection of cultural practices and science in youth climate organizing and the impact of climate change on traditional medicine.

Host John Whidden welcomes Gokul from Kerala, India. Gokul connects cultural practices to science and explains youth climate organizing through YOUNGO’s local, regional, and global Conferences of Youth ahead of COP. A final-year Ayurveda student, he describes how climate change disrupts Indigenous/traditional medicine by affecting medicinal plants, potency, treatment protocols, and trust, with implications like antimicrobial resistance. He presents Govardhan, an app envisioned as a global rep...

People in this episode

Host: John Whidden

Guest: Gokul

Topics covered

• climate change
• youth organizing
• Ayurveda
• Indigenous medicine
• COP
• medicinal plants

Keywords

• climate change
• youth climate organizing
• Ayurveda
• medicinal plants
• COP
• antimicrobial resistance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: YOUNGO

Products: Govardhan

Places: Kerala, India

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