Doug Chadwick on Our Need for a New Understanding of Nature (Ep.173)

This week on the Blister Podcast we discuss grizzlies, whales, microbes, humankind, & the future of the world with the wildlife biologist & author, Doug Chadwick. All of these are topics in Doug’s excellent new book, Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All.
Four Fifths a Grizzly, by Doug Chadwick


This week we discuss grizzlies, whales, microbes, humankind, & the future of the world with the wildlife biologist & author, Doug Chadwick. All of these are topics in Doug’s excellent new book, Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Why did you write this book? (1:12)
  • Recalibrating our behaviors (20:25)
  • What really is progress? (37:06)
  • Igniting curiosity (40:06)
  • On being permeated by nature (49:31)
  • Jellyfish & aging (53:57)
  • The photos in the book (55:21)
  • Recoding the audiobook (58:33)
  • What’s next? (1:04:46)

1 comment on “Doug Chadwick on Our Need for a New Understanding of Nature (Ep.173)”

  1. Thanks for this podcast, confess I did not know Chadwick but enjoyed the conversation. Am now reading The Wolverine Way as a result and can definitely recommend it.

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