“If podcasts are a new form of publishing Hot Mess a Pulitzer Prize winning classic. The narrative is superb, Richard Aedy deftly connects psychological insights and evolutionary limitations that impair our ability to comprehend the problem due it’s sheer scale across time and place. It’s almost too large an issue for us to hold in our thoughts. Richard reveals the added complexity due to intentional obfuscation by lobbyists, distorting the facts revealed by science. Like a cloud of ink from a threatened octopus, climate change was covered over, allowing the industry to slide its tentacles into politics to keep feeding and growing. The pandemic has created a moment of concentrated global pause: science & politics, life & death, values & beliefs are playing out in days and weeks, not in the slower moving (& therefore harder to see) increments of climate change, and Richard is weaving this together into something brilliant in this series.”
Damien JVC via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
05/08/20