Engine Trouble | Robert Krulwich

From Robert Krulwich, Nate Milton, and This American Life:

Try to name the inventions that most dramatically changed our world. What comes to mind? The wheel? Making fire? Language? Art? Those were huge, no question, but in this video we suggest a new one — only a couple of hundred years old — that will alter our planet in ways that haven't seen for the last two and a half million years. Let us take you on a quick trip, backward and forward, to see what has been and could be our fate again.

Engines, climate change, Anthropocene, growth, fossil fuels, atmosphere, sustainable energy

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Written and narrated by Robert Krulwich
Video directed and animated by Nate Milton https://natemilton.com/
Funded by This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org/