Is Water Alive?

Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant

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Science, Pets & Animals, Nature, Kids & Family, Natural Sciences

4.9 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As a climate solutions advocate, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is often asked “What are some small things people can do to reduce climate change that don’t require sacrifices?” But the truth is electric cars and solar panels won’t be enough. Climate success will require us to change our relationship with the natural world. We must not view nature as resources to manage, but as kin. In this final episode of the season, we’ll explore solutions to our climate emergency via a conversation with close friends Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant and Dr. Johnson. They dive deep into how we can actually protect our bodies of water. Follow Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and author of What If We Get It Right? on her Website and on Instagram. Credit for the photo used in this podcast art: Marcus Branch. Thanks for listening to Going Wild. You can learn more about season three HERE and catch up on seasons one and two HERE. If you want to support us, you can follow Going Wild on your favorite podcast-listening app. And while you're there, please leave us a review. It really helps. You can also get updates and bonus content by following me, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, and PBS Nature on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook. You can find more information on all of our guests this season in each episode's show notes. And you can catch new episodes of Nature, Wednesdays at 8/7 Central on PBS, pbs.org/nature, and the PBS app. Going Wild is a podcast by PBS Nature. NATURE is an award-winning series created by The WNET Group and made possible by all of you. Views and opinions expressed during the podcast are those of the individuals expressing them and do not necessarily reflect those of THIRTEEN Productions LLC/The WNET Group.

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0:00.0	And then Hurricane Irma comes through.
0:07.0	Just, you know, like you can do everything right and still climate change can pummel you.
0:13.0	And that was actually the moment where I shifted my work from ocean to climate.
0:18.0	If a hurricane's going to like wreck, wreck everything in a way that's very different
0:24.6	from the way the hurricanes used to be, I was like, I can't create enough good ocean policy
0:32.6	to stop climate change.
0:52.1	I'm Dr. Ray Wynne Grant, and this is a different kind of nature show, a podcast all about the human drama of saving animals.
0:56.1	This season, we're going to take a journey through the ecological web.
1:02.2	From the tiniest of life forms to apex predators,
1:06.2	we'll hear stories from scientists, activists, and adventurers as they find all the different ways the natural world is interconnected.
1:12.8	And together, we'll explore our place in nature. This is going wild. It's always surprising to me that people
1:23.8	leave the ocean out of so many conversations about life on Earth?
1:29.0	Today I'm talking to my friend, Dr. Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson.
1:33.4	Ayanna is a marine biologist, policy expert, and writer.
1:37.4	And as a huge advocate for climate solutions, she co-created one of my favorite podcasts,
1:42.6	How to Save a Planet, a show all about figuring out
1:45.7	what we, humanity, need to do about climate change. As we've made our way through the
1:50.8	ecological web this season, we've covered some pretty incredible species, from invisible microbes
1:56.9	in the boiling river to the mighty mountain lions of California.
2:01.1	And today, for the last episode of the season, we're going to do something a little
2:05.4	different.
2:06.9	Instead of telling you a story about another amazing species, we're actually going to talk
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