• Rinsing and Repeating Our Way to Climate Disaster? Is There a Better Way?
    2025/10/30
    Thirty years after the United Nations first called for global action on climate change, progress remains painfully slow. Year after year, world leaders meet, make promises, and defer real solutions. Why? Because top-down global governance continues to fail in a world divided by power, politics, and inequality. In this episode, Linwood Pendleton, Global Coordinator of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network, argues that it’s time to look elsewhere for answers. Drawing on his work with Indigenous academics, ocean scientists, and local communities around the world, he explains why true progress depends on wisdom from the ground up. Hope, he insists, lies not in endless summits—but in reconnecting with knowledge systems that already know how to live in balance with the planet.
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    33 分
  • Conserving Nature and Humanity—For the Good of Both
    2025/10/23
    The snow leopard, a mysterious and endangered big cat, roams the High Himalayas across a dozen countries—many of them rivals in politics, religion, and ideology. Yet these nations have found rare common ground: protecting this remarkable animal. In this episode, Dr. Charu Mishra, Executive Director of the Snow Leopard Trust, explains how a shared commitment to conservation has become a bridge for peace and cooperation in one of the world’s most fragile and contested regions. From climate change to border conflicts, the Himalayas mirror global challenges—but Mishra’s story reveals that even amid tension and competition, shared humanity and ecological interdependence can inspire collaboration. His work offers a model for how protecting nature can also protect people.
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    37 分
  • Nothing Says “War” Like “Forever”
    2025/10/09
    What happens when a failed War on Drugs collides with a War on Terror? President Donald Trump has rebranded drug cartels as terrorist organizations, blowing up “go-fast” boats in the Caribbean, putting a $50 million bounty on Venezuela’s president, and deploying major military force to the region. Is this truly about national security—or the start of a new forever war? Host Alan Stoga explores these questions with Chris Dalby, Director and Founder of World of Crime, and Professor Clionadh Raleigh, President and CEO of ACLED.
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Iran v. Israel: Who Won, Who Lost, What Next? - Part Two
    2025/08/21
    In the second half of this two-part conversation, host Alan Stoga continues his discussion with journalist Francesca Borri, former Iranian diplomat Hossein Mousavian, and Hebrew University lecturer Abraham Silver. Together they probe deeper into the aftermath of the recent war, the fragility of the ceasefire, and the broader question of whether Iran and Israel are on the path to peace—or simply preparing for the next conflict.
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    21 分
  • Iran v. Israel: Who Won, Who Lost, What Next? - Part One
    2025/08/21
    Six weeks after Iran and Israel fought a brief but intense 12-day war, a fragile ceasefire holds—but for how long, and at what cost? In this two-part conversation, host Alan Stoga is joined by journalist Francesca Borri, former Iranian diplomat Hossein Mousavian, and Hebrew University lecturer Abraham Silver to unpack what really happened, what it means for the region, and whether peace is possible—or if this was just the first of many wars to come. 👉 This conversation is published in two parts. You are listening to Part One.
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    43 分
  • A River Runs Through It
    2025/07/17
    The Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, is vital to global climate health. But unlike the Amazon, its biggest threat isn’t farming—it’s the demand for minerals driving the Green Transition. Could the race to electrify the world cost us the Congo? Jaap van der Waarde, WWF’s Conservation Director for the region, explores how the demand for rare minerals risks tipping the Basin’s fragile ecosystem—and what must change to protect it.
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    32 分
  • Can Profit Help Save the Rainforest?
    2025/07/03
    Can profit and planet go hand in hand? As public climate financing falls short, attention turns to the private sector. But can businesses do good for the environment while still making a return? Tânia Trindade of SODEFOR, a forestry company managing a million hectares in the Congo River Basin, believes they can. She shares how the company balances sustainability and profit in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems—and why private capital may be essential to the climate fight.
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    25 分
  • Mutually Assured Madness?
    2025/06/05
    We’re living through a moment of global upheaval—where the old order is crumbling, and the future feels dangerously uncertain. At the heart of this instability is the evolving, uneasy relationship between the U.S. and China: two powers with the ambition and capacity to shape whatever comes next, yet with fundamentally different worldviews. In this episode of New Thinking for a New World, we hear from Chandran Nair, founder of the Global Institute for Tomorrow, a Pan-Asian think tank. Speaking from an Asian perspective, Nair argues that China may be more clear-eyed than the West about how the world should work. Is he right? Listen and decide for yourself.
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    42 分