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Back From The Future with Fons Burger
by Fons Burger
What kind of world are we leaving behind? And what could we do differently? In Back From The Future, Dutch author and journalist Fons Burger looks back from the year 2125 at the world we are creating today. Every week, he shares a short, personal story about the news, the future, and the choices we make. His books 2125, The Hibernator & The Only Possible Solution are out now and for sale on line. Mini-podcasts not only about what's going wrong but what we can do about it.
Episodes
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NATURE STRIKES BACK
I think I've discovered a conspiracy against humanity. Bats, chickens, pigs, mosquitoes. Even trees and oceans seem to be involved. Sounds crazy? Well, hear me out. It started when I went for another Covid shot. And somehow I ended up with pharmaceutical companies making billions, medicines that...
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WHO IS ABOVE THE LAW
Imagine a world where even presidents and generals have to obey the law. Where an arrest warrant actually means something. Sounds pretty normal, doesn't it? Except we're nowhere near that world. This week, I look at international justice through the life of South African human rights lawyer Navi...
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What They Know and We Have Forgotten
1969, I was sixteen, handing out leaflets in Amsterdam to protest what was happening to the Indigenous people of the Amazon. They were being driven off their land. More than fifty years later, they're still fighting the same battle. But there's something else we should be paying attention to....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What kind of world are we leaving behind? And what could we do differently? In Back From The Future, Dutch author and journalist Fons Burger looks back from the year 2125 at the world we are creating today. Every week, he shares a short, personal story about the news, the future, and the choices we make. His books 2125, The Hibernator & The Only Possible Solution are out now and for sale on line. Mini-podcasts not only about what's going wrong but what we can do about it.
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