Dr Gurudas Nulkar on the meaning of 'wealth'. Listen to the full episode available across all podcast platforms! Find out more @WhatUnEarth  linktr.ee/WhatUnEarth

Listen to Prithwiraj Ghorpade on how nature is far superior technology than any humans have come up with. Find full episode on all podcast platforms! Find out more @whatunearth

In Episode 08 we explore the fundamental problem of modern economics and how it is designed to be antithetical to ecology. That a diamond cost millions but basically does nothing. While a trees are source for eternal life, we clear them faster than a teenage boy clearing his search history. The problem is not money by itself, the problem is when we assume that everything that can be valued is in fact valued, correctly, in money, by the market.  Join me as I speak to Dr Gurudas Nulkar. Dr...

Life is uncertain. It is chaotic, it is complex and it confounds us.  Our eternal quest as humans has been to make sense of the world we inhabit, the realities we perceive, and the existence that has been thrust upon us. Poetry, philosophy, psychology, religion, art are all systems attempting to answer the same fundamental question – what the hell is going on? In attempting to answer this rather eloquently framed question, science has been our best bet so far. Joining me today is Dr Chirag...

Dr Chirag Dhara explains how solid the science behind anthropogenic climate change is. Find out more @whatunearth 

Shripad Dharmadhikary on why the new Draft basically completely obliterates the existing legal environmental safeguards, especially for Inland Water Ways. Find out more @whatunearth

Dr Shripad Dharmadhikary talks to us about the extent of the water crisis in India, how powerful vested interests are ensuring that a water stressed country continues to remain so, how Public Private Partnerships manage to successfully integrate the worst parts of both the government and corporations, and how the Draft EIA Notification 2020 is essentially a death knell for environmental conservation law and policy.  Find out more @whatunearth

Shripad Dharmadhikary on why the new Draft basically completely obliterates the existing legal environmental safeguards. Find out more @whatunearth

Shripad Dharmadhikary on how despite having all the solutions, society is still far from harmony.  Find out more @whatunearth

Travel and tourism represented approximately 10% of total global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016. That’s an estimated US $7 trillion; The global travel and tourism industry, directly or indirectly, creates approximately 11% of the world’s employment and creates 8% of the Global Green House Gas Emissions.  To help us understand more about the industry, its importance and impacts, and sustainable alternatives to the increasingly polluting industry, we have Aishwarya Phadke, the founder of...

I have often asked myself, What is the number 1 solution to climate change? What is the single most effective use of the limited time that humanity has to effect any kind of tangible change on the single greatest threat to our peaceful existence? Within the grander scheme of things, In what way can I best help fight against this seemingly apocalyptical future that we’re steadfastly marching towards? Well it turns out I’m not the only one to ask that question. Although there exist a multitude...

The denaturalized life is the dehumanized life. Modern society is, in many ways, increasingly lived in unnatural ways. Our homes are concretized, many stories above mother earth, our food is either shipped from chemical farms across the world, or much worse, produced in factories and stored in warehouses. The air we breathe is more increasingly more conditioned, and I’m sure the day isn’t far when companies start selling us packaged bottles of ‘fresh air’. Our relations are increasingly...

It’s safe to say that 2020 is a year that will go down in history, one that will be discussed for centuries to come, one that will undoubtedly shape the very ways in which we design life. I am completely cognizant of the enormity of the spread of the coronavirus as well as the very debilitating condition many individuals and families inflicted with it find themselves in. I am sensitive to all the hardship, turmoil and strife, as well as the other long list of unseen effects that are brought...

What is the value of one tree? When we talk of the worth of a tree, Is it merely the sum total of the market price of each of its components? Do we value a tree because of the wood it gives us, the fruits it bears, the air it clears? Do we value the bark, the roots, the leaves? A tree can be many things, a source of nutrition, health, security, but I now see that much like human society, a tree is made up of countless tiny entities, all doing their job, all continuing the battle of...