Preppers

When it comes to climate change, answers can be difficult to nail down. Will the world reach net zero in time? What does a climate change future even look like? Will the changes come in my lifetime – or is it my kids or grandkids who will suffer? With every uncertainty, you can feel your head sink a little deeper into the sand... What is it about our lives, and the way we do, or don’t, think about climate change, that makes it so difficult to change our behaviors? And what’s being done to help motivate people in high-risk areas to prepare? This episode features: Ray Langenfelds – Atmospheric Scientist, CSIRO Tommy Wiedmann – Professor of Sustainability, UNSW Engineering Ben Newell – Professor of Psychology, UNSW Science Candice Boyd – Associate Producer of Geography and Registered Clinical Psychologist, University of Melbourne Jeremy Moss – Professor of Philosophy, UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture Brian Cook – Associate Professor of Geography, University of Melbourne Preppers is created by the UNSW Centre for Ideas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As we struggle to reduce carbon emissions, environmental markets are creating a world where money really does grow on trees. But does putting a price on nature, and forcing the economy to value the things it’s always taken for granted, really work? And can it help us prepare for climate change? This episode features: Miri (Margaret) Raven – Senior Scientia Lecture, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture Megan Evans – Senior Lecturer, UNSW Canberra William Glamore – Professor of Environmental Engineering , UNSW Engineering Tommy Wiedmann – Professor of Sustainability, UNSW Engineering Preppers is created by the UNSW Centre for Ideas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the popular imagination, preppers are busy hoarding tinned food in their bunkers while they wait for the end of the world. But is this what most prepping looks like? And is climate change as bad as all that? The bin fire of the last few years has ramped the eco-anxiety up to an 11. But as we go about our lives, studying, feeding our families, paying off our debts and waiting for the next season of The Great British Bake Off, have we all put our heads a little too far into the sand? Sure, we’re all worried, but we can’t be thinking about it all the time, much less heading to the hills to shoot our dinner and drag it back to our underground bunkers. Besides, it won't come to that... will it? Is there anything we can learn from the prepping mindset as the reality of climate change comes barrelling toward us? This episode features: John Scarinci – President, Australian Preppers Survival League Kezia Barker – Senior Lecturer in Geography, Liverpool John Moores University Tommy Wiedmann – Professor of Sustainability, UNSW Engineering Preppers is created by the UNSW Centre for Ideas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.