Making Change

About Making Change

Welcome to Making Change: A podcast on positive change, the art and science of what needs to happen to make ourselves better, to make society better, and make the earth better. The human mind is the key to reacting in a more constructive way to current events and life's challenges. Not only can training our thinking help us understand what is happening, it gives us a path forward to change our lives, our communities, and our world for the better. Making Change is an exploration of neuroscience, ethics , politics, and best conflict resolution practices when it comes to the challenges and opportunities we have to build a better world. https://amzn.to/33qBKNc (https://amzn.to/33qBKNc) http://bit.ly/2pP6pF5 (http://bit.ly/2pP6pF5) http://howtothinkandact.com/ (http://howtothinkandact.com/) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

Marc Gopin

Category

education · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Oct 2019

Latest episode

24 May 2026

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 May 2026

   CO2, The Future of Life, and the Legitimacy of Artificial Intelligence

   What if the future legitimacy of artificial intelligence depends not on how powerful it becomes, but on whether it helps sustain life itself? In this new podcast episode, Marc Gopin explores the growing crisis of atmospheric CO₂, the astonishing chemistry of fossil fuels, and the possibility that future engineering may increasingly imitate biology itself—transforming machines from extractive systems into regenerative ones. Drawing on reflections inspired by thinkers such as Brian Greene and Yuval Noah Harari, this episode asks whether AI can become a life-giving partner in humanity’s future rather than a destructive burden on the planet. From giant “leaf-like” technologies and artificial photosynthesis to the moral responsibilities of AI corporations and the future of civilization on Earth and beyond, this conversation brings together science, ethics, ecology, engineering, and Compassionate Reasoning in a deeply hopeful exploration of what intelligent life must become if it is to survive and flourish. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

2. 

   8 May 2026

   FROM OUTRAGE TO RESPONSIBILITY: A FRESH APPROACH TO SOCIAL PROTEST AND SOCIAL CHANGE

   Responsible citizen leadership requires the courage to resist abuses of power universally rather than selectively, so that ordinary people do not become tools in geopolitical struggles, ideological tribalism, or competitive narratives of moral superiority. Domination, repression, and dehumanization are not confined to any one civilization, religion, or political system; they emerge wherever power becomes insulated from accountability and fear overwhelms ethical restraint. A more sustainable path forward depends on cultivating moral courage, critical self-examination, moral reasoning and compassion across divisions, and future-oriented thinking rooted in the infinite value of all civilizations. Research in neuroscience, moral psychology, and conflict resolution increasingly suggests that compassion, perspective-taking, cooperative relationships, moral reasoning and shared civic responsibility are more effective at reducing cycles of rage, propaganda, polarization, and violence than collective blame or selective outrage. The challenge of our time is therefore not only to protest select injustices that we are most outraged about, but to build cultures, institutions, and relationships capable of restraining cruel exercises of power, but without reproducing hatred, humiliation, or the dehumanization of entire populations. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

3. 

   4 May 2026

   Demonstrations 2.0

   This episode explores a revolutionary way to revitalize demonstrations, social relationships, and democracy across the world. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/making-change--4113720/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 14 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

4

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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