Episode 188: Professor Guy McPherson
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Professor Guy McPherson joined the show. Guy is an American scientist, professor emeritus of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. He is known for the idea of Near-Term Human Extinction, a term he coined about the likelihood of human extinction by 2030.
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| 0:45.3 | topic. Casual. Anyway, we're on recording now, Professor McPherson, welcome. Thank you very much. It's |
| 0:52.0 | honored to have you here. Before we get into, |
| 0:55.2 | you know, whatever we want to talk about, you've got some very interesting perspectives and it's |
| 0:58.9 | very controversial views, you know, that I think are interesting to talk about. Give us a little |
| 1:05.3 | rundown on your background. I was reading about your background. You've got some really interesting |
| 1:08.9 | stuff, you know, and I lived in, I lived in New Mexico for a while. |
| 1:13.7 | So I saw you lived out there for a while and down in, I guess it was Belize and now you're up in New York. |
| 1:17.5 | But tell us a little bit about your background who you are and then we can get into the topic du jour, |
| 1:22.4 | or maybe the most important topic of all, perhaps. |
| 1:25.5 | Right. |
| 1:26.1 | So I completed my undergraduate degree in forestry at the University of Idaho approximately |
| 1:31.4 | 2,700 years ago. |
| 1:33.7 | I don't remember the exact date. |
| 1:36.1 | And received both of my graduate degrees, my master's and PhD from Texas Tech University. |
| 1:41.7 | Then did a postdoctoral research stint at the University of Georgia. |
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