Faster Than Expected - Podcast

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 all going to die once anyway. Here I have selected a few highlights. shownotes: https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/fte42

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 with podcast, blog, facebook etc.

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 are talking about an online database tool and a video. Further information: https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/fte39

> This is where I'd like to die ... and it's partly the place, right, I am surrounded by nature. - Catherine Thompson Catherine Thompson was born in Canada and now lives in Thailand. She is living anyway, as if it were her last year. We are talking about living in the woods, building instruments, music, and a little bit about forest spirits. Further information: https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/fte38

"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. Gurdjieff Gurdjieff and my interview partner David Korn are both seekers of truth. With his radical honesty David gives us back the question of an imaginary last year. In the face of collapsing biological systems on our earth, David shows himself with intelligent and deep thoughts and vulnerable sensitivity. Shownotes with further information: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte37

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. Another major life task is the development of a database on environmental changes. Here he tirelessly contributes his professional knowledge as an information analyst.

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 many other creative gifts. Pauline dedicates her life to the truth about abrupt climate change and the 6th mass-extinction we are in.

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 Hester I have asked: Imagine you know your death date about one year in the future. What is most important in your life? What do you want to do? We have interviews with Barbara and Kevin.

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 thought experiment with me and find out what death - knocking on the door - wants to tell us. Shownotes: https://www.fasterthanexpected.one/fte33

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 important how often I publish something. The main thing is that I can offer something that helps you, dear reader or listener.

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://fasterthanexpected.one/fte30

„Der Tod ist ganz ungefährlich“ Book title by Wilfried Reuter Among 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 and clear vision of your own death. For us, who are involved in thinking about extinction, this is a wonderful opportunity to brighten dark expectations of our collective death. Why shouldn't it be bright, peaceful and beautiful? shownotes: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte29

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 global temperature increase of 1.75° Celsius. With a ice-free Arctic we could have a very fast jump of further 4° C or more. Adding a removed global dimming effect we may have +6-7° in a short period of. Faster Than Expected! shownotes: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte28

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 an emergency situation.

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 and I hope more fluent way. And I didn’t edit the recording. So you’ll hear all my “hms” and “ähs”. But I guess that disturbs me more than you. more on: https://fasterthanexpected.one/fte26

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ~ Robert Anthony Let‘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 articles and their headlines about environmental issues. And it‘s growing fast. This is really core journalistic work what they are doing. You can find the tool at www.open-intelligence.co.uk. But before you look around there please listen to Jan Wyllie about the background and purpose of their work. Or do it the other way round. This podcast episode has been an experiment of an audio and video version. But that didn‘t work. So I decided to split this episode into three parts: 1) First you‘ll hear from Jan Wyllie about his professional background and motivation to work on such a database. 2) The second part is a video, where Jan gives us a brief introduction how to use the database tool. You ca find it embedded in the shownotes fasterthanexpected.one/fte25 3) Then pleas

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 question: How is ice melting in the Arctic and methane influencing the global temperature? About the melting ice in the Arctic we had heard from Thorstein Viddal and Peter Wadhams in the first part of my Arctic series. The thickness and volume of the ice is at a record low. With Jennifer Hynes I have talked about the Methane Monster, that is out now. Sam Carana is the main writer onArctic News blog, that describes the situation in the Arctic, focusing especially on the threat of large abrupt methane eruptions from the Arctic Ocean seafloor. Sam Carana gives no audio or video interviews, but he has been so kind to give me a written interview. I am thankful, that Kevin Hester from New Zealand will take his part in this recording. Links * Arctic News blog http://arctic

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 ice, especially the volume had a record low in 2017. The melting leads to an increasing temperature of the water. The permafrost is thawing and the outgasing of huge methane deposits has begun. Jennifer Hynes With Jennifer Hynes I have already talked about tipping points in the 8th episode in March 2016 and about a Blue Ocean Event one year ago. http://xwer.de/en/sag-002-tipping-points-climate-and-personal http://xwer.de/en/sag-008-blue-ocean-event Since Jennifer has published two videos, Methane Monster 1 and 2, she is one of the Arctic and methane experts. It’s still highly recommended to watch these introductions to abrupt climate change. Methane Monster II ~ Demise of the Arctic: https://jenniferhynes99.wordpress.com/methane-monster-ii-demise-of-the-arctic/ Meth

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 Launch I had a break in the first half of the year. I have not been satisfied with the attention my work has received, especially the German episodes. I recognized that I had two different target groups: the international English speaking community, who is familiar with abrupt climate change and the resulting near-term human extinction and the German speaking group, where scarcely anybody has heard about „Abruptem Klimawandel“. I decided to concentrate on the first group and had a new launch in June 2017 with Listening in the Rain Forest, a talk with musician and instrument builder Catherine Thompson, who is living in Thailand. Kind regards to you, Cathrine. Stats The podcast had 4100 total plays in 2017. I had nearly 10,000 hits on the shownote pages of my website xwer.de. Now, here are my ch