A World Without Us? Thoughts from Alan Weissman, author of that idea

Thirteen years ago, acclaimed journalist Alan Weisman both envisioned and researched the idea of a worldwide disease that would decimate our species - and change the course of our impacts on all other Earthly life. What was he thinking?           Today, like so many of our kind, Weisman is sequestered in one place, envisioning work he was planning to do - on a new book about hope for all this - while sitting out 2020, in the company of his fellow humans. Alan Weisman's first guest stop with KDHX Earthworms celebrated his 1998 report on sustainable technology in a remote Brazilian burg: Gaviotas, A Village to Change the World. In 2013 his book Countdown: Our Last Beast Home for Future on Earth and KDHX Earthworms were both honored with Global Media Awards by the Population Media Center. On our goes-around-comes-around planet, this conversation explores our pandemic present,through a spirit of common perseverance.   THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms engineer, with assistance from Jon Valley and Andy Coco. Related Earthworms Conversations: An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene (Nov 2019) Storytelling, Deep Listening: Antidotes to Toxic Public Discourse (July 2019) Renewal - Andres Edwards on our Connection to Nature (May 2019)