Ep. 48: "2020: The Year in Review" feat. Kristine Mattis

Kristine Mattis returns to the show as a co-host of this special year-end episode.

Kristine has PhD in Environmental Studies. As an interdisciplinary environmental scholar with a background in biology, earth system science, and policy, her research focused on environmental risk information and science communication. Before returning to graduate school, Kristine worked as a medical researcher, as a science reporter for the U.S. Congressional Record, and as a science and health teacher. She is no relation to the mad-dog general.

We hit a lot of subjects in our wide-ranging discussion, including where we spent the year; the question of whether 2020 was "the worst year ever"; the George Floyd uprising; the blindspots and biases of the mainstream media; censorship on social media; the presidential election; the lack of effective anti-war and pro-environmental movements in the US; the need for big picture thinking in the environmental movement; a nuanced look at the various opinions about COVID and vaccines; the provincialism of US culture; the ecological unsustainabiliy of the internet's infrastructure; and the delusional hope that a change in the calendar date will make a positive difference all by itself.

Follow Kristine here: https://twitter.com/kristinemattist https://medium.com/@k_mattis https://rebelpleb.blogspot.com.

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This episode's introduction & incidental music was assembled from two loops by Doctor Dreamchip, who you can follow here: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhlcItuC6pmhhemUjhPt1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctordreamchip/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/doctordreamchip

Black Lives Matter photo by John Lucia (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Lives_Matter.jpg)

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