Imagine you only have one year to live.What are the most important things you want to do?That's the question I have asked six wonderful interview partners. Let them inspire you to look death in the face more calmly and to accept that we are
Im Sommer 2019 sind wir schon bei einer Erhöhung der durchschnittlichen Temperatur auf der Erde von 2 °C angekommen. Was passiert bei +3 Grad, +4 oder +5 Grad?
Or have a nice winter in the southern hemisphere.Heat waves and deluges increase. We had the hottest June on earth. Bad news don't stop.I really need a pause for some weeks. I try to enjoy the summer. Grief runs parralel anyway. I pause wit
Jan Wyllie, Jennifer Hynes and Simon Eaton have done a masterpiece. They have turned a database search into a drama.In this episode I am talking with Jan about the background of this work. Here we come to a limit of an audio podcast, while we
> This is where I'd like to die ... and it's partly the place, right, I am surrounded by nature. - Catherine ThompsonCatherine Thompson was born in Canada and now lives in Thailand. She is living anyway, as if it were her last year. We are ta
"Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity." - George I. GurdjieffGurdjieff and my interview partner David Korn are
I am talking with journalist Jan Wyllie what's most important for him in the last (imaginary) year.In addition to ice cream, strawberries and the flower garden, Jan is committed to the care and preservation of a woodland in Devon, England. An
Facing a collapse of the biosphere, extinction and dying I talk with Pauline Panagiotou Schneider about what's important in her life. We had a relaxed conversation about such a serious topic.Pauline is a filmmaker, now a publisher and has man
I very much look forward to hearing the other people's perspective. It's a difficult question and you have asked it. And I think we all need to step up. It's the time for elders now to tell the truth. - Kevin HesterI have asked: Imagine you k
If you try to accept that even the human species will go extinct in a short period of time, you may be confronted with uncertainty. How will extinction happen? Nobody of us has any experience with that. Uncertainty is hard to endure.Do a thou
I apologize, I am not able to publish podcast episodes on a regular basis.But I promise I will continue until the Internet is switched off or the sky falls on our heads. During a social media break I have deepened my work. It is not so importa
Jan Wyllie‘s little story will sound quite harmless. But hear it as a story how climate change can harm us - you and me. Abrupt climate change will harm us all - faster than expected - and maybe from an unexpected direction.shownotes: https:/
„Der Tod ist ganz ungefährlich“Book title by Wilfried ReuterAmong other things, I'm talking about vision boards. Dr. Karen Wyatt presents this great tool in her End of Life University podcast. A vision board may help to have a positive vivid
While I am recording this episode in July 2018 everywhere on the globe we are witnessing extreme weather events. For months it is really hot and dry in Germany. On this walk I am talking about these climate situations. Since 1750 we have a glob
On a dog walk again. Akela has a injured paw. I am walking and talking about the schizophrenic summer 2018 in Germany. It seems that everybody likes it to go out sit and drink a coffee or eat an ice cream. Only the farmers begin to talk about a
Just walking and talking.Still my purpose is this:I want to support people, who are brave to face the collapse of our biosphere, to be aware how precious life is and not to be alone.So I have accepted the challenge to talk English in a free
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ~ Robert AnthonyLet‘s take a swig with Jan Wyllie. Together with Simon Eaton he has founded The Database of Environmental Change. It‘s a collection of more than 40,000 arti
In my view he is one of the leading scientists, who is engaged in the topic of abrupt climate change. But nobody knows who is behind this name, he prefers to remain anonymous.In this episode of the FasterThanExpected podcast we focus on the q
In this second part of the series about the Arctic I am talking with Jennifer Hynes about methane release in the Arctic and the exponential way it is accelerating. The last episode No. 21 in November 2017 has been about the melting Arctic Sea i
During the last year 2017 I have published 12 episodes, including this one. Please listen to the excerpts of the episodes that have been played most. This is a review of the FasterThanExpected podcast in 2017.New LaunchI had a break in the
The Arctic Sea Ice Volume is 2017 at it’s ever recorded low. Maybe this sounds somehow special, but what‘s going on in the Arctic now has huge consequences for the climate of the planet. Finland‘s President Niinistö said in North Russia: ‘If We
This interview with Jürgen Hornschuh about living with animals should have been part of the 19th episode “worldwide connected - Burden on other Species”, but we haven’t been able to connect technically. So we recorded it afterwards. I am sure i
This episode we want to dedicate to the animals and the burden inflicted on the other species by us, Homo sapiens. In times of abrupt climate change or ongoing anthropogenic climate disruption, there is no doubt, we are in the sixth mass extinc
These days climate disruption leads to an exponential occurrence of disasters. Hence, I am talking with the American disaster manager Nick from ReliefAnalysis. I talk with him about different phases of disaster management, about exponential ext
In this seventeenth episode of Faster Than Expected I ask myself the question, if there can be holidays of doom, of climate disruption and the dire consequences. At the end I will guide a short meditation to find an inner room of silence and pe