The Human Survival Podcast

Hosted by Shelby Mertes, this show is part of the Human Survival Project, which was created for you and others to work together to save humanity. We combine two powerful truths: 1) humanity is facing existential threats to our world civilization, and 2) these global threats require global management by a redesigned and much stronger United Nations. We are building a global grassroots organization to help citizens push their governments to fix the U.N., to help protect the future of humanity and create a world we can be proud of.On the show, we discuss climate change, destruction of nature, pandemics, nuclear weapons and other warfare, technology (artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, etc), climate-driven migration, global wealth inequality, and of course, the international systems we need to manage these issues. We focus on solutions, and explore how to be engaged world citizens in a time of dramatic change.Learn more and sign up for our email newsletter:https://www.thehuman

The Human Survival Podcast is a society podcast hosted by The Human Survival Project, with 38 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Human Survival Project hosts The Human Survival Podcast, a society show with 38 episodes published.

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  Episode #43

  Inequality & Environmental Destruction: How Economic Hitmen Keep Countries Poor | John Perkins

  Sep 17, 202558 minS0

  <p>Global poverty isn't just a result of history - it's an active system designed to extract resources from developing countries while keeping them in debt. Former economic hitman John Perkins reveals how corporations and wealthy nations impoverish the places with the most resources, and why this threatens humanity's survival. We explore the connections between inequality, environmental destruction, and our global economic system, plus what each of us can do to transform the "death economy" into a "life economy."</p> <p>John Perkins spent decades as chief economist at a major consulting firm, advising the World Bank, International Monetary Fund...

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  Episode #42

  Feeding Ourselves While Protecting The Planet: Miranda Mertes, Agroecology Researcher & Advocate

  Apr 29, 20251 hourS0

  <p>The current ways we grow food for 8 billion humans are damaging the planet - and it’s harder to grow food on a damaged planet.  Industrial farming methods produce plentiful food, but also contribute to climate change, deforestation, pollution, soil degradation and water depletion.  Ironically, the systems that have brought affordable food to so many people around the world could lead to high food costs and starvation, as farmers try to grow food amid the unraveling of planetary systems.</p> <p>Some facts:</p> Humans have replaced half of all Nature with agriculture.  80% of that agricultural land is used to gr...

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  Episode #41

  Maintaining Sanity As The World Falls Apart: Eva Jahn, Climate Emotional Resilience Institute

  Jan 1, 20251h 28mS0

  <p>As we face the polycrisis of existential threats like climate change, nuclear weapons, pandemics and more, it’s common to feel difficult emotions like fear, anxiety, depression, guilt and anger. These feelings can make day-to-day life difficult, and can also keep our society from mobilizing public policies to solve these problems. Psychotherapists have seen a dramatic increase in clients struggling to cope with the state of the world. As more and more people face these issues, it could overwhelm traditional mental health systems and require new forms of peer support. Fortunately, there is a growing network of professionals innovating ne...

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  Episode #40

  Can We Have A Successful A.I. Future?: Sam Samanne, author and tech entrepreneur

  Nov 19, 20241h 39mS0

  <p>In public conversations about artificial intelligence, we hear how AI will solve all of our problems and make us all happy and prosperous, or how it will destroy society or make humans extinct.  How do we balance these extremes, and figure out how to manage AI properly?</p> <p>Here on The Human Survival Podcast we have usually expressed alarm about the potential dangers of AI and other technology, and urged strong public policy to manage them.  But in this episode, we speak to someone with a more optimistic view on AI, and explore many ways AI could help so...

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  Episode #39

  IMMIGRATION - What We’re Not Talking About: Shelby Mertes, The Human Survival Project

  Oct 9, 20241h 4mS0

  <p>Immigration seems to be the biggest issue discussed in this year’s U.S. presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.  The United States (and the world) is struggling to handle the large migrations of people due to poverty, war, political turmoil and environmental catastrophe.  Trump and other Republicans are calling immigrants murderers, rapists, drug dealers and pet eaters.  Democrats are calling Republicans racists, and not really addressing their concerns about crime, jobs, housing and economic impacts.  And neither party is talking about the dramatic increases in migration that are likely in the coming years, and how to manage...

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