A few years back I went down to Louisiana. I was there to write a story about how the southern

end of the state, at least in geological terms, isn't going to be around much longer.

It's literally disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Every 45 minutes, the state loses about a football field of land. It's one of the worst

climate change disasters on Earth. Some of the places I went to in order to report that

story, they probably don't exist anymore. They're gone and they're never coming back.

That's what this podcast is about. Well, not exactly. What happens when the things we've

always taken for granted? Sand, helium, glaciers, start to disappear. How do we think about

loss of that magnitude? What do we even do about it?

That's the Doomsday scenario that everyone wants to avoid. At the end of the day, it's

going to run out and long before it runs out. It's going to get expensive and that alone

is going to have really big consequences for a lot of humanity.

My name's Omar Alakad. I'm an author and a journalist. And this is a podcast called

Without. It's about the negative space of things. What do I mean by that? Well, to be

alive right now in what we've come to call the Anthropocene is to witness firsthand

the most impact human beings have ever had on this planet.

It's going to change which used to take millennia. Now we're starting to happen in the span

of decades. I saw lines going off like this can't happen. I know it's how it's going

to play out, destiny quality, destiny, justice.

This isn't a show that's meant to scare you to death. It's not a show that's meant to

offer you false hope. It's about something else entirely. How we process a world that's

changing faster right now than at any other time in human history.

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