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Podcast: In the Weeds
Episode: Air Travel, Climate Change and Donโt Look Up with Chris Schaberg
Description: Chris Schaberg, whom you might remember from my episode on SUV commercials, has written a number of books on air travel. I wanted to talk to him about the impact of air travel on climate change but also about what air travel - and, increasingly, the fantasy that we can be tourists in space as well - reveals about the relationship between us human animals and the sophisticated technology that drives globalization (and, as a fall out, climate change). I was also itching to talk about Adam McKayโs film Donโt Look Up, in which a comet hurtling towa...