DECODING CLIMATE CHANGE—no panic, just facts. 8 billion reasons to act. One of them is YOU.
Join Zoltan Rendes and Balazs Juszt every month on their quest to make sense of the world we live in.
“We’re not tree-huggers, we won’t sail across the Atlantic to blame you for ruining the planet, we won’t deface classic paintings or block traffic in your city. We don’t do politics, either. We just want to give you the facts, stories, and context about the slow apocalypse we’re living in. Maybe that can help make this world a better place, so humanity doesn’t just survive, but thrives.”
In this episode of We Are Endangered Species, we speak with filmmaker Michael Zelniker about The Struggle for Mother Water, an eight-part documentary series exploring the global water crisis through the voices of women, Indigenous communities, and frontline defenders. From contaminated water and privatization to climate change, public health, and the fight for water as a human right, this conversation moves between urgent reality and hard-earned hope.
Michael shares what drove him to spend 219 days across 21 countries documenting the lived experience of water scarcity, and why he believes the answers already exist in the communities most affected. This is a frank, emotional, and deeply human conversation about survival, justice, and what it will take to protect the one thing none of us can live without.
A story about crisis. A story about resistance. A story about water.
28 Nov 2025
Episode 9 - We Are Art
Matyas Misetics and Peter Grundberg explore how artists use various mediums to protest the climate crisis, questioning art's effectiveness in driving change before it's too late in this interview episode.
11 Oct 2025
Episode 8 – We Are Under the Weather
The hosts discuss the devastating summer of climate change-related events, including wildfires and extreme storms, emphasizing the need for humanity to prioritize facts over ideology.
25 Aug 2025
Episode 7 - We Are Algorithms
Host Dr. Jane Smith interviews AI ethicist Dr. John Doe about how algorithms perceive humanity's fight against the climate crisis.
21 Jul 2025
Episode 6: We Are Social
Sharon Missah explores how conspiracy theories on social media impact climate change awareness and human connection, suggesting openness can combat isolation in this interview episode.
23 Jun 2025
Episode 5 - We Are Traitors
Movie producer Christian Moore discusses collective responsibility for environmental issues and potential solutions, including financial incentives for saving the planet, in an interview about ignorance and hope.
26 May 2025
Episode 4 – We Are Passengers
Debbie Clark, Zoltan, and Balazs examine the booming tourism sector's impact on global pollution and explore the possibility of sustainable travel, questioning if we are destroying the planet we seek to enjoy in this interview episode.
1 May 2025
Episode 3: WE ARE KIDS
What kind of world are we giving to our kids to grow up in? Will they be able to change the fate of humanity? Do we need to sugarcoat the facts for them or teach them survival skills?
Actress and mother Ana Ularu and English and Science teacher Istvan Mihaly joining us to discuss the topic and more. Offspring brought up in the new normal, science classes about climate change and who will save the world for our children if not us…
2 Apr 2025
We Are Money
Markets down, prices up, natural disasters, clueless politics in the soft apocalypse. Can technology save the planet? Climate change and cha-ching from Washington to Dubai with Bruce Porter Jr and Gilson Riberio da Costa.
21 Feb 2025
We Are Numbers
BAFTA-nominated director of The Girl With a Pearl Earring, and an eco-warrior who runs a facebook group called Apocalypse A-Go-Go, the director of the 2015 documentary Ten Billion, Peter Webber joins hosts Balazs Juszt and Zoltan Rendes to discuss the odds of success in combating climate change when broligarchs stack all the oil they can against it.Overpopulation, (un)natural disasters and measuring stupidity. Data talks, whalepoo walks!
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