Other Side With Roy Germano

My guest today is Os Schmitz. Os is a professor at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the author of The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Antropocene. In this conversation we talk about what ecology is, how biodiversity affects the climate, how species are interconnected in surprising ways, how ecological thinking can make our cities more livable and prosperous, and how we can combine the kind of mass consumerism that the global economy is built upon with a more aggressive mode of electronics recycling to create an economy that is both more robust and also more environmentally friendly.