EARTH: The Desert Creep

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today, we travel to the deserts. Or, actually, the deserts travel to us. What happens if dust swallows up over 30% of the planet? → → → Background reading, source material and other links here ← ← ← As air pollution gets worse, a dystopian accessory is born ← My piece on face masks mentioned in the episode! Guests:Sumant Nigam: climate researcher at University of MarylandMorgan Gorris: PhD candidate at UC IrvineChristina Xu: freelance technology researcherLindsay C. Stringer: researcher on land use and sustainability at the University of LeedsMatthew Bowker: soil ecologist at Northern Arizona University Actors:The Snowglobe Narrator: Brent RoseLenny Haywood: Evan JohnsonFarah Mousterian: Zahra Noorbakhsh, host of Good Muslim, Bad MuslimJohn Jacob Siwa: Joseph JonesJuana Aguilar: Tamara Krinsky, host of Tomorrow’s World TodayAmy Trisol: Ariela Morgenstern Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.0	Flash Forward is a show.
0:04.0	A.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:10.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future. What might happen tomorrow? What might not happen tomorrow? Or in 10 years or a hundred. Every episode we tackle a different future, everything from
0:24.8	space pirates to living underwater to just giving everybody money. For every
0:30.4	future we start with a little field trip to tomorrow to check out what's going on,
0:34.9	and then we teleport back to today to talk to real experts about what that future might really
0:40.7	be like.
0:42.0	This is the third episode in our little mini series about Earth.
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