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Sustain What: As Vaccines Flow, What’s Needed to Break the Pandemic Pipeline?
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Sustain What: As Vaccines Flow, What’s Needed to Break the Pandemic Pipeline?

Original Air Date: December 11, 2020

DESCRIPTION: With COVID-19 vaccines beginning to flow, many global-risk experts worry nations may lose track of the grander challenge: acting systemically, and systematically, to curb pandemic risk on a hyper-connected planet.

Join Sustain What host Andy Revkin in a solution-focused brainstorm with psychiatrist and sustainability scholar Jonathan Salk, who co-wrote “A New Reality - Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future” with his father, the famed vaccine pioneer and humanitarian Jonas Salk; Tara O’Toole, an epidemiologist, biomedical and intelligence technologist at the intelligence-focused venture firm In-Q-Tel; and Roman Krznaric, a philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change the world, most recently in “The Good Ancestor.”


Jonathan Salk's book: https://www.anewrealitybook.com

A relevant essay in The Hill: https://bit.ly/salkcovid19

Roman Krznaric: https://www.romankrznaric.com

Learn more from Tara O’Toole in this pandemic briefing for the Council on Foreign Relations: “The COVID-19 Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness in the United States.”

Discussion about this podcast

Sustain What
Sustain What?
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier.
This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability.
Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative.
Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?