The Climate crisis issue with 70 researchers, artists, experts, young and old, entrepreneurs and wage earners

Andri Snær Magnason: When is someone still alive that you will love? Gerald Casale, Devo: It's a planet on fire.

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Since August 2022, Anna-Karin Ivarsson, in her role as climate reporter and culture reporter at Swedish Radio has been asking the same question to the people she meets in her line of work, names such as Patti Smith, Devo, Alan Rusbridger, Richard Thompson and Dalee Sambo Dorough.

What question do you have in your mind and carry with you about the climate crisis?

Johan Rockström:
Do people understand that 1.5 is not a target but a scientific limit?

Anna-Karin Ivarsson's colleagues have also contributed by putting together questions from Francis Fukuyama and James Hansen and others to the survey.

More than 200 people participate in the world's, probably, longest audio survey. Here is the link to the six hour long podcast in Swedish.

HOUR ONE STARTS IN AUGUST 2022:

Alan Rusbridger, chief of the UK's Guardian newspaper 1995-2015, until 2025 editor in chief for the Magazine Prospect, London
John Naughton, professor, the public understanding of technology, Cambridge
Terry Macalister, journalist for The Independent, BBC, The Guardian, energy editor, author ”Crude Britannia - How oil shaped a nation”, Cambridge
Leo Hickman, editor, Carbon Brief, London
Richard Thompson, professor, marine biology, university of Plymouth
Martyn Hann, ass professor, offshore energy, university of Plymouth
Reuben Shipway, lecturer of marine biology, expert ship worms, university of Plymouth
Phillip Inman, economics editor, the Observer, London
Kendra Inman, landscape architect, London
No name, taxi driver, London, unfortunately lost his name, (please contact: [email protected])
Rivka Meelis, student Netherlands
Jasper van Zanten, student Netherlands
Pien Hoefnagels, student Netherlands
Jules Gribling, student Netherlands
Geert Bukkems, teacher Netherlands
Jacob Nell, economist, expert on energy and economics, London
Kersti Kaljulaid, former president of the Republic of Estonia
Andri Snaer Magnason, writer Iceland, On time and water

From 60 minutes:
Erpur Hansen, director at South Iceland Nature Research Centre where they study the ecology of Atlantic puffins around Iceland, and Storm-petrels & Manx Shearwaters in the Westman Islands.
Andrew Appleby, president John Ray soc Orkney
Marius Jonassen, ass professor in meteorology UNIS the university centre in Svalbard
Hanne H Christiansen, professor in Physical Geography at the University Centre in Svalbard
Kenna Chisholm, the conservation charity's Conservation Manager for North Scotland, RSPB Scotland
Nathan Stakhouse student arctic studies, american living in Iceland
Haukur Hardarson, chairman and founder Arctic Green energy corporation
Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson: minister of environment, energy and climate in Iceland (now former) (Independence Party)
Dalee Sambo Dorough, Inuit-Alaska the former international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council
Pól Arni Holm, teacher, musician, Hamradun, the Faroe Islands
Uni Debess, musician, Hamradun, the Faroe Islands
Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute AWI Bremen, now President of the MBARI, USA

RECORDED 2023:
Mike Hazas, professor, Department of information technology, Uppsala university Sweden
Greta Thunberg, climate justice activist, Stockholm
Patti Smith, artist, USA
Gerald Casale, founder, vocalist, guitarrist, basist, keyboardist, ”field marshal for the deevolution”, Devo
Josh Hager, guitarrist, keyboardist, Devo.
Francis Fukuyama, political scientist, political economist, international relations scholar, senior Fellow at Stanford University
Damian Carrington, environment editor, The Guardian

From 120 minutes:
Ingo Fetzer, researcher Stockholm resilience center, Stockholm University
Farah Kabir, country director Action aid, Bangladesh
Ly-Daravuth. Mother nature Cambodian movement. Right livelyhood prize winner 2023
Sun Ratha, Mother nature Cambodian’s chief financial officer, Right livelyhood prize winner 2023
Mean Lisa, Mother nature Cambodian movement. Right livelyhood prize winner 2023
James Hansen, director of the program Climate Science Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University Earth Institute, NYC.
Ruzica Dadic - snow scientist, Snow and avalanche research institute in Davos, Switzerland

RECORDED 2024:
Jonas Ebbesson, professor environmental law, Stockholm University
Kimberly Nicholas, climate scientist, author Under the sky we make, newsletter We can fix it, Lund university Sweden
Milo Rau, theater director, writer, activist, Germany, Austria, Belgium

RECORDED 2025
Renad Qubbaj director Tamer institute Ramallah, West Bank
Kyle Devine, Dean of graduate studies, professor environmental studies, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Roberto Verganti, professor at the House of innovation of the Stockholm School of economics, Sweden
Gabriel Smales, global program director for Sounds right at UN Live, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kyoungjae Lee, director of Korean cultural center, Sweden
Lisa Germany, content and trails manager v. Destination Arctic Circle, Sisimiut Greenland
Paninnguaq Fleischer-Lyberth, site manager of the World heritage area, Sisimuit Greenland
Anette Grønkjær Lings, CEO Hotel Sisimiut, Greenland
Hitomi Kimura, ph. D (Law), Otsuma Women´s uni. Tokyo, Japan
Corine Wood-Donnelly professor, fakulty of social sciences, Nord university, Bodö, Norway

From 180 minutes:
Niivi Snowball, artist Kudjok, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada 
Mick Harvey, musician, The Birthday party, Nick Cave and the bad seeds, Crime and the city solution, and more Melbourne Australia
Mark Arm, musician, Mudhoney, pioneer in and coined the word grunge Seattle USA
Catherine Richardson, professor in biological oceanography at the University of Copenhagen
Kim Cohen, assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Frank Biermann, professor of Global Sustainability Governance at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University
Beatriz Balino, marine biologist, University of Bergen, Norway, born in Uruguay
Fabienne Will, researcher, Deutsches Museum, Munich
Jan Zalasiewicz, emeritus professor in geology, University of Leicester
Anders Hove, senior research fellow , Oxford institute for energy studies, China analyst based in China for many years
Lauri Myllyvirta, co -founder and lead analyst, Center for research on energy and clean air, Helsinki, Finland

RECORDED 2026
Johan Rockström, professor in earth system science at the University of Potsdam, director of the Potsdam institute for climate impact research, Germany.

Contributing reporters: Kristian Åström, Björn Gunér and Daniel Värjö.