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Sustainability
Episodes · 12 months
14
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Mar 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,587, 1 of 3,864, 0 of 4,118, 1 of 4,228, 5 of 4,732, 0 of 4,443, 1 of 4,236, 1 of 4,325, 2 of 4,541, 1 of 4,454, 0 of 4,674, 2 of 4,711.
All time
96
+51 via 31 narrower
On record
110
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
2w ago
Oct 30, 2026
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
#Guest · last 13 weeksEpisodes, sorted, most firstVoiceRank
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Episodes on this topic, by weekEvery analysed episode tagged with this topic in each of the last 13 weeks, across all shows and whoever was on them. The newest week is still in progress, and recent weeks fill in as transcripts are analysed. Point at a name, or tab to it, to highlight the weeks that guest was on an episode.
All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 3Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp22 people
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- Transition to regenerative agriculture9 people · 41%
- Prioritize technological and systemic…9 people · 41%
- Limit consumption and growth4 people · 18%
Transition to regenerative agriculture
Industrial monocultural farming is destructive and must be replaced by regenerative practices that restore soil health and biodiversity.
9 people · 6 episodes
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Industrialized farming is unsustainable because it exhausts irreplaceable resources and results in long-term degradation.
“I believe that we are exhausting Irreplaceable resources and that it will end poorly”
StarTalk · Jan 2024 · 2 episodes · 216K views on this topic
Shifting 10% of U.S. farmland to regenerative agricultural practices will create a permanent, non-reversible transformation in the agricultural system.
“So if we're looking at 100 million that's 10 10% we know that's the threshold it'll never go back from there”
Mark Hyman, MD · Mar 2025 · 1 episode · 104K views on this topicDS
Regenerative agriculture is a specific, historically proven method that differs significantly from mass industrialized farming practices.
“It's called regenerative agriculture. It's a very specific type of agriculture that's been practiced for centuries, but um is completely different to the sort of mass industrialized form of farming that we are familiar with that like feeds us now.”
Throwing Fits · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 451 views on this topicPrioritize technological and systemic…
The climate crisis is best addressed through rapid adoption of clean energy, circular industrial models, and large-scale technological…
9 people · 9 episodes
SA
He believes that the increasing affordability and efficiency of solar and wind energy demonstrate that clean energy is a central solution to our infrastructure problems.
“the good news is that bill gates is right that it's a tremendous advantage that the cost of electricity from wind and solar has come down many of you know that right now that even if you own a relatively recent coal-fired power plant it's less expensive to reinvest in solar and wind than to buy the ”
StarTalk · Sep 2021 · 1 episode · 516K views on this topicGB
The mining industry should transition to a circular model where materials are rented and recycled rather than extracted and consumed once.
“and that's why we think about um we think about this as atoms as a service you know we think about not selling these but letting you use them and when you finish give them back and we'll recycle them and you can have them again right and so you know and and i think that's where the minin”
Everything Electric TECH · Jul 2020 · 1 episode · 5K views on this topicSM
A sustainable industrial society can be achieved by utilizing existing but underutilized technologies, specifically nuclear power, combined with resource-balanced management.
“I'm providing a solution that does not yet else exist with with a with a a series of things now let's say thorium does take off molten salt does take off we've got to make so many systems and get them out there and we don't know if there are Supply bottlenecks in doing that”
The DemystifySci Podcast · Sep 2024 · 1 episode · 3K views on this topicLimit consumption and growth
Humanity must move away from models of infinite economic growth and excessive consumption to remain within planetary boundaries.
4 people · 4 episodes
Paul HawkenUnrated
A steady-state economy is a viable model to support global needs without relying on endless growth that depletes the planet.
“There's lots of words for a steady state economy, steady state economy can take care of the whole world. What it won't do, is create multibillionaires.”
The Rich Roll Podcast · Sep 2021 · 1 episode · 60K views on this topicTC
Tessa ClarkeUnrated
Humanity must shift away from the current model of infinite consumption and GDP growth because it is exceeding planetary boundaries and depleting resources.
“the North Star metric for Humanity is increasing GDP growth and infinite GDP growth on a planet with finite Resources by very definition is not a long-term strategy and as I've already pointed out with the Earth overshoot Day we are way exceeding the boundaries of the current planet that we have”
High Performance · Jul 2023 · 1 episode · 5K views on this topicMM
Michael MezzUnrated
He argues that modern economics is unsustainable because it ignores environmental limits, and that we must intentionally slow down harmful industries to stay within the Earth's ecological capacity.
“it's about moving away from the mainstream idea that tells us that the economy always has to be growing we always have to be doing this and it instead focuses on designing an economy that meets people's needs and as you say within the limits of our planet”
PoliticsGirl · Apr 2024 · 1 episode · 4K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Aug 2017