At a Distance

By: The Slowdown
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  • Summary

  • A podcast about the bigger picture. Host Spencer Bailey calls on leading minds, from scientists and technologists to artists and climate activists, to zoom out and look at some of the planet’s most pressing issues from a whole-earth, long-view perspective.
    2024 Slowdown Media
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Episodes
  • Rebecca Solnit on Slowness as a Superpower

    Rebecca Solnit on Slowness as a Superpower
    Dec 11 2023
    Rebecca Solnit, the author of books including “A Paradise Built in Hell” (2009) and “Orwell’s Roses” (2021) and the co-editor of the new collection of essays “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility,” discusses the long view as a “mind-blowing” way of looking at the world, why the majority of people tend to be altruistic and resourceful in a disaster, and why the climate crisis requires eschewing a scarcity mindset for one of abundance.
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    53 mins
  • Charlayne Hunter-Gault on History as a Compass for Navigating the Present

    Charlayne Hunter-Gault on History as a Compass for Navigating the Present
    Nov 20 2023
    The civil rights activist, award-winning journalist, and former NPR and CNN foreign correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about her book “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives”; why understanding history is like a form of armor in a world full of misinformation; and the transformational, life-altering notion of viewing herself as a “queen” from a young age.
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    30 mins
  • Sarah Lohman on Creating a More Affordable, Healthful, and Moral Food System

    Sarah Lohman on Creating a More Affordable, Healthful, and Moral Food System
    Oct 23 2023
    The culinary historian Sarah Lohman, author of the new book “Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods,” talks about the importance of engaging with local foodways, why “the idea that eating McDonald’s is universally bad is woefully unaware of class and racial conflicts,” and how Indigenous communities across the U.S. are fighting to protect their heritage.
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    25 mins
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