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Earthbound is a podcast about what it means to be human on a warming planet. Host Thomas Schueneman, a climate writer, global freelance journalist, and audio producer, talks with scientists, philosophers, activists, artists, Indigenous leaders, policy experts, and everyday people about how a changing Earth is reshaping our lives—and how our choices, values, and imaginations are reshaping the planet in return. From climate politics and planetary health to environmental justice, mental well‑being, psychology, and philosophy, the show explores the quiet work of repairing our relationship with nature and each other. Earthbound offers clear‑eyed, human‑centered stories from the Anthropocene.

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Episode thumbnail for Somebody Should Do Something | Individual Action vs. Systemic Change

July 14, 2026

Somebody Should Do Something | Individual Action vs. Systemic Change

<h2>Bridging the Gap and Finding Agency in a Complex World</h2><p>What can one person actually do about problems as vast as climate change, racism, or inequality? For most of us, the honest answer feels like: not much. That sense of powerlessness is exactly what philosophers Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva set out to dismantle.</p><p>In this episode, Tom talks with the co-authors of Somebody Should Do Something (written with Daniel Kelly) about the trap of either/or thinking, the false choice between fixing ourselves and fixing the system. The truth, they argue, is both/and. Our personal choices and our collective structures are woven together, and the most powerful thing any of us can do is act in ways that draw others in.</p><p>Along the way: why the personal carbon footprint was a fossil-fuel PR invention, how the “Crying Indian” ad shifted blame from industry to individuals, what the NRA and the temperance movement understood about identity, and the startling fact that most Americans badly underestimate how many of their neighbors want climate action. It’s a conversation about social influence, honest hope, and the roles each of us already plays.</p><p>If you’ve ever thought somebody should do something, this one is for you. It turns out that somebody is us.</p><p><strong>Links &amp; Resources</strong></p><ul><li>Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT Press, 2025), by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly, <a href="mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049788/somebody-should-do-something" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049788/somebody-should-do-something</a></li><li><a href="https://michaelsbrownstein.squarespace.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Brownstein</a>, John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center</li><li><a href="https://alexmadva.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alex Madva</a>, Cal Poly Pomona, California Center for Ethics and Policy</li><li><a href="https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daniel Kelly</a>, Purdue University</li><li><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/28/18629833/climate-change-2019-green-new-deal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mary Annaïse Heglar</a>, “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I Don’t Care if You Recycle,” Vox (2019)</li><li><a href="https://www.simplypsychology.org/pluralistic-ignorance.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pluralist Ignorance</a></li><li><u><a href="https://ianhaneylopez.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Ian Haney Lopez</a></u></li><li>Related Earthbound episodes: <a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/from-protests-to-progress-what-moves-us-to-take-action/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dana Fisher</a> on the polycrisis; <a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/bill-mckibben-here-comes-the-sun-and-how-renewables-can-power-the-future/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bill McKibben</a>; <a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/catastrophe-ethics-doing-good-in-a-world-gone-bad/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Travis Rieder</a> on Catastrophe Ethics</li><li>Earthbound: <a href="https://earthboundpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">earthboundpodcast.com</a> · Global Warming Is Real: <a href="https://globalwarmingisreal.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">globalwarmingisreal.com</a></li></ul><br/>

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June 21, 2026

Breaking the Chains: The Lust for Power vs. the Light of Energy

<h2>More Than Enough Light</h2><p>What is more addictive than fentanyl, cocaine, or heroin? Evan Jaqua’s answer is power. And once people have it, they will do almost anything to keep it.</p><p>This is a solo episode, a short essay built around the ideas of Evan Jaqua and the Solutions Party, the political reform organization he founded. The interview tape didn’t meet the bar for broadcast, so I took his thinking and ran it through my own. I hope to have Evan back for a clean recording. For now, it’s just you and me.</p><p>The throughline is power, and the strange double life the word leads. In physics, power is the flow of energy, the capacity to do work. In politics, it is the capacity to influence, coerce, and control. Jaqua’s argument is that nearly all of our social dysfunction, from energy policy to corruption, runs downstream of one addiction: the lust for that second kind of power.</p><p>Energy is where the two meanings meet. Fossil fuels are scarce, contested, and easy to hoard, which is exactly why they translate so cleanly into political control. Sunlight asks no one’s permission. As <u><a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/bill-mckibben-here-comes-the-sun-and-how-renewables-can-power-the-future" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bill McKibben</a></u> puts it, none of the ninety-three million miles light travels to reach us passes through the Strait of Hormuz.</p><p>The Solutions Party’s first move is disarmingly simple: eliminate re-election, and sever the link between holding power and seeking more of it. Abundant, decentralized energy severs that link everywhere else.</p><p>We have the means. We are standing in them. What we lack is the will to stop guarding the old fire.</p><p><strong>Links and Resources</strong></p><ul><li>The Solutions Party: <u><a href="https://www.solutionsparty.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.solutionsparty.org/</a></u></li><li>Bill McKibben, Third Act / writing on renewable energy: <u><a href="https://billmckibben.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://billmckibben.com/</a></u></li><li>Listener survey:<a href="https://earthboundpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://earthboundpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">earthboundpodcast.com/survey</a></u></li><li>Rate and review Earthbound: <u><a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/rate/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/rate/</a></u></li><li>Support the show: <u><a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/support/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/support/</a></u></li></ul><br/><p><strong>Thanks to these sonic contributors</strong></p><p>Environment War 4 by mensageirocs -- <u><a href="https://freesound.org/s/232644/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freesound.org/s/232644/</a></u> -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0</p><p>winter forest 125 PM 240125_0644 by klankbeeld -- <u><a href="https://freesound.org/s/726466/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freesound.org/s/726466/</a></u><strong><u><a href="https://freesound.org/s/726466/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a></u></strong>-- License: Attribution 4.0</p><p></p>

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May 16, 2026

The Psychology Behind Our Rage: Understanding Outrage Overload

<h2><strong>Outrage Overload: Finding the Movable Middle</strong> </h2><p>A conversation with David Beckemeyer</p><p>We are a storytelling species. Long before we had data, we had narrative. But in a media environment engineered to trigger our most primitive threat responses, even the most compelling story struggles to find its audience. The amygdala doesn’t care about nuance. It cares about survival.</p><p>So how do we talk about climate change to people who aren’t already in the room?</p><p>David Beckemeyer has spent years studying that question, not from a climate angle, but from within the outrage machine itself. As host of <u><a href="https://outrageoverload.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Outrage Overload</a></u> and a researcher with the <u><a href="https://www.ship.edu/academics/cas/sociology/conners-institute/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Connors Institute</a></u>, David brings together scientists, psychologists, and civic thinkers to examine why we get so worked up, and what we can actually do about it.</p><p>In this conversation, we get into the psychology behind why facts so often fail to move people, even when the stakes couldn’t be higher. We talk about naive realism, the quiet assumption that because you’ve looked at the evidence and reached a conclusion, everyone else should too. We talk about solution aversion, how people unconsciously shift their position on a problem based on whether the proposed solutions feel ideologically threatening. And we talk about the movable middle, the people who aren’t loud, aren’t on your feed, but are out there, and listening.</p><p>The conversation also moves into territory that surprised me. Deliberation versus debate, and why one almost never works. The role of storytelling in reaching people across tribal lines. And a genuinely hopeful data point from Texas, of all places, about what’s possible when people engage with trade-offs honestly rather than defensively.</p><p>This is not a climate episode in the conventional sense. It’s a conversation about the human wiring that shapes every climate conversation we try to have. And if you’ve ever felt like you were talking and not being heard, I think you’ll find something useful here.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>Naive realism and why clarity isn’t enough</li><li>Solution aversion and the tribal brain</li><li>The movable middle: who they are and how to reach them</li><li>Deliberation versus debate</li><li>Storytelling as the path past the amygdala</li><li>Finding agency in an algorithmic media landscape</li><li>The Texas wind power story</li></ul><br/><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Outrage Overload</strong>:<a href="https://outrageoverload.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://outrageoverload.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">outrageoverload.net</a></u></li><li>Earthbound <u><a href="https://www.earthboundpodcast.com/survey/2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">listener survey</a></u> </li><li>Earthbound on the web:<a href="https://earthboundpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="http://earthboundpodcast.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">earthboundpodcast.com</a></u></li><li><u><a href="https://globalwarmingisreal.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GlobalWarmingisReal.com</a></u></li></ul><br/><p></p>

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Earthbound is a podcast about what it means to be human on a warming planet. Host Thomas Schueneman, a climate writer, global freelance journalist, and audio producer, talks with scientists, philosophers, activists, artists, Indigenous leaders, policy experts, and everyday people about how a changing Earth is reshaping our lives—and how our choices, values, and imaginations are reshaping the planet in return.

From climate politics and planetary health to environmental justice, mental well‑being, psychology, and philosophy, the show explores the quiet work of repairing our relationship with nature and each other. Earthbound offers clear‑eyed, human‑centered stories from the Anthropocene.

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