Gaia, Technology, and the Anthropocene feat. Lewis Dartnell

Decouple is a show which is fundamentally about attitudes to
technology and the role that decoupling technologies, so called
technofixes, can play in mitigating and solving our environmental
challenges. As we are becoming increasingly aware, geology and
its earth systems have not just shaped us, we are shaping the
earth through our technologies and indeed our most current
geologic epoch, the anthropocene, bears our name as a result. In
this episode we dive deep into geologic determinism and a history
of technology made more entertaining by the thought experiment of
exploring how to rebuild civilization after a global cataclysm
with astrobiologist and polymath, Lewis Dartnell who is the
author of the books "Origins" and "The
Knowledge."