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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back.

Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science and one of the leading young environmental journalists and bloggers working today, immerses listeners in the world of those who study hurricanes. What was once an arcane branch of meteorology (itself an arcane science) has become embroiled in one of the most politicized and hotly contested debates in American science: whether or not the recent hurricane disasters, culminating in Katrina, are connected to global warming.

From bars in the Valleys of Wales with 20 people in attendance to sharing stages with KISS, members of Whitesnake, Rainbow, Tyketto and many more, this podcast documents the steady rise of one of the UK's best up-and-coming unsigned and TRULY independent bands.You'll hear all the stories from the road, including tales of cancelled tours, misogyny, and violence twinned with hilarious escapades, drunk bets, and lots of falling over. Plus a peek behind the curtain as to what being an independent band in the 21st century looks like, with show and tour planning, accounts, tax, marketing, all done ...