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Future Perfect

Future Perfect

42 Episodes • By Vox • www.vox.com/future-perfect-podca...
Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, fight global warming, and end world poverty to create a more perfect future.In season 3, we explore how the meat we eat affects us all. In ...more
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Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Most of our efforts to fight climate change, from el... more
Apr 28 2021 43m
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Should I still have kids if I’m worried about climate change?
Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas co-led a study t... more
Apr 21 2021 1h 2m
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Engineering our way out of the climate crisis
In an ideal world, cutting carbon emissions would be... more
Apr 14 2021 35m
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Unexplainable
Unexplainable is a new podcast from Vox about everyt... more
Mar 16 2021 28m
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Rethinking meat
How can we convince people to change their relations... more
Nov 4 2020 21m
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Can we raise better beef?
Beef cattle take a huge toll on the environment. In ... more
Oct 28 2020 24m
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How to prevent a factory farmed pandemic
What if the next pandemic comes, not from wet market... more
Oct 21 2020 24m
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These bacteria wear chicken shoes
Right now, we can fight off a wide range of bacteria... more
Oct 14 2020 23m
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Life on the fast line
Workers in meatpacking plants already process our pi... more
Oct 7 2020 25m
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Chicken Big
In 1992, Craig Watts got into growing chickens for P... more
Sep 30 2020 28m
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The paradox on our plates
In the US, we spend billions of dollars a year pampe... more
Sep 23 2020 25m
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Pig poop lagoon
North Carolina is home to around 9 million pigs. Man... more
Sep 16 2020 29m
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Season 3: The beef with meat
The meat we eat affects us all. It affects non-human... more
Sep 9 2020 2m
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What the housing crisis means for the climate
Dylan Matthews sits down with housing policy experts... more
Sep 7 2020 58m
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What MLK and Malcolm X would do today
Co-host Sean Illing talks to Peniel Joseph, a Univer... more
Aug 19 2020 1h 14m
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The benefits of contemplating death
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Nikki Mirghafori, a Bu... more
Aug 12 2020 59m
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A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity
Co-host Sean Illing talks to Sister Ilia Delio, a Fr... more
Aug 5 2020 1h 10m
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Why Cornel West is hopeful (but not optimistic)
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Cornel West, professor... more
Jul 29 2020 1h 3m
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What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about this pandemic
Co-host Sean Illing talks to Robert Zaretsky, profes... more
Jul 22 2020 1h 4m
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Muslim mystics on the power of pain
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Omid Safi, professor o... more
Jul 15 2020 59m
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A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
Co-host Sean Illing talks to David Wolpe, senior rab... more
Jul 8 2020 55m
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On Buddhism and Blackness
Co-host Sigal Samuel talks to Valerie Brown, a mindf... more
Jul 1 2020 1h 7m
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Introducing Future Perfect: The Way Through
We’re living through challenging times: a pandemic, ... more
Jun 30 2020 1m
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The money in the moon
Fifty years ago this summer, Apollo 11 landed on the... more
Jul 17 2019 31m
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Your PTA vs. equality
Big philanthropists can threaten democracy. But so c... more
Jul 10 2019 27m
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