Ocean Wants: Canceled Ice Age, featuring William Ruddiman

For the last seven thousand years, humans have stabilized the global climate. The greenhouse gases emitted through deforestation, agriculture, and husbandry prevented the onset of a new glaciation. Only since the industrial revolution, human influences have gotten out of hand, causing rapid rises in temperature and sea level. Our host, speculative writer Ingo Niermann, is in conversation with William Ruddiman, geologist, and originator of the early Anthropocene hypothesis. He speaks from his home in Virginia. Ocean Wants is a series of ten podcasts that playfully explores how nonhumans could like our planet to be. Conceived and hosted by Ingo Niermann, Ocean Wants was commissioned to celebrate TBA21–Academy’s tenth Anniversary. Commissioned and produced by TBA21–Academy Conceived, hosted, and edited by Ingo Niermann Music composed and arranged by Ville Haimala Intro read by Joan Jonas Credits read by Staci Bu Shea Sound edited by Robin Michel Produced by Ingo Niermann and María Montero Sierra