Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Professor of environmental chemistry Martin Sheringer joins Nate. Together, they discuss Sheringer's most recent paper on PFAS - the 'forever chemicals, their ubiquity in waterways all over the globe, and their numerous critical health effects.
More broadly, they outline the risks and scenarios of plastic pollution to planetary futures - and what we might do about it. Is it possible to live in a (mostly) plastic free world, and do we really have any other option?
About Martin Sheringer
Martin Scheringer is a professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and works in the research program on Environmental Chemistry and Modeling at RECETOX. He holds a diploma in chemistry from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and a doctoral degree and a habilitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.6 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:33.3 | This week, I am pleased to welcome Dr. Martin Scheringer. Martin is a senior scientist at |
| 0:40.4 | ETH Zurich and a professor of environmental chemistry at Messarach University in the Czech Republic. |
| 0:48.2 | He specializes in research on environmental and human exposure assessment and is also involved in the science |
| 0:56.1 | policy debate. |
| 0:58.1 | Today we discuss Martin's most recent paper on PFAS, or the so-called forever chemicals, |
| 1:06.0 | which are being found to be much higher than safe levels for humans in waterways and rivers around the world. |
| 1:14.8 | We discuss their various health effects, including endocrine disruption. |
| 1:19.7 | And more broadly, Martin and I talk about the risks and scenarios of plastic pollution |
| 1:25.3 | to planetary futures and what we might do about it. |
| 1:29.9 | Please welcome my friend and colleague, Dr. Martin Scheringer. |
| 1:48.2 | Good morning, Martin. |
| 1:50.8 | Hello, good afternoon, Nate. |
| 1:52.3 | Good afternoon, yes. |
| 1:55.5 | So good to see you in person last week. |
| 1:56.3 | Was it last week? |
| 1:57.4 | Oh, time flies. |
| 1:58.5 | Yeah. |
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