Our Footprint in the Extremes with Nigel Kuhn - a podcast by Eli Weiss

From the Sahara Desert in Mali to the frozen desert of Antarctica, extreme conditions require unique measures to deal with waste management and humanity’s footprint. My guest, Nigel Kuhn, and I discuss waste management at these two extreme places, both with sensitive, desert ecosystems where human impact is amplified. Nigel describes the tipping point that is happening in Mali where the country is suffering from excessive plastics and waste, and contrasts that with the extreme measures taken in Antarctica to prevent any waste left behind by humans; an increasingly difficult task with tourism there on the rise. In a world where western countries ship off their waste to the third world, we don’t see the ecological destruction that results from our incessant consumptive growth model in a throw-away culture thus an ever- growing footprint of waste. A paradigm shift, not just new technology, is needed to solve this problem. This is about people and the future is now.

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