WE ARE ENDANGERED SPECIES

In this episode of We Are Endangered Species, we speak with filmmaker Michael Zelniker about The Struggle for Mother Water, an eight-part documentary series exploring the global water crisis through the voices of women, Indigenous communities, and frontline defenders. From contaminated water and privatization to climate change, public health, and the fight for water as a human right, this conversation moves between urgent reality and hard-earned hope.Michael shares what drove him to spend 219 days across 21 countries documenting the lived experience of water scarcity, and why he believes the answers already exist in the communities most affected. This is a frank, emotional, and deeply human conversation about survival, justice, and what it will take to protect the one thing none of us can live without.A story about crisis. A story about resistance. A story about water.

Art is throwing soup, cracking jokes, and melting ice before the planet does. In this episode of “We Are Endangered Species” we dive into how painters, filmmakers, comedians and activists are turning the climate crisis into protest, poetry and punchlines. Is art still just “raising awareness”—or has it become the sharpest weapon against those pretending nothing’s on fire? Together with our guests Matyas Misetics and Peter Grundberg we ask: can culture actually shift the climate curve, or are we just decorating the apocalypse? Tune in if you want less greenwashing, more rebellion—and a brutally honest look at whether art can still change anything before it’s too late.

Well, we hope at least you had a great vacation season, because the planet surely didn’t. Wildfires, heatwaves, extreme storms and flooding, 130 billion US Dollars in reported damages and almost 10 thousand direct victims to climate change related events. A commentary episode on how facts overwrite ideology and politics. Has your apocalypse alarm gone off yet? The summary of a sad Summer and survival tips for humanity.

How can we use AI to fight the climate crisis? Does AI think humans are stupid or suicidal? Is the end of the world near? “Organic” intelligence asking artificial intelligence all the hard questions about climate change. The brutally honest truth calculated by algorithms.

Wild conspiracy theories are taking over social media about climate change. Are these voices louder and more convincing than the harsh reality we are facing? Are humans getting more isolated and lonely because of social media, the very thing which should connect them more? How being open and honest could help to save the world. Sharon Missah, a multi-award winning media, marketing and communications expert and founder and host of the podcast Let’s Talk DXB joining us from Dubai to help to navigate the labyrinth of social media in the Slowpocalypse.

Are we betraying ourselves, the planet and all living creatures on it? Are we collectively responsible for the extinction of the Javan tiger and more? Do we stand a chance against climate change? Would you save the future of your kids if you got paid for it? An episode about ignorance, hope and a prophetic Hollywood blockbuster. Man with a plan Christian Moore, movie producer, businessman and philanthropist, the son of the late Sir Roger Moore is joining us from Monaco, France. A bittersweet conversation with a whole new kind of James Bond.

1.4 billion people travelled for leisure in 2024 on Planet Earth. The tourism sector is booming, giving 10 percent of the global GDP, but also responsible for 10 percent of global pollution. Are we destroying the very planet we want to see? Can we make travel sustainable? A rational problem and an emotional approach, regenerative tourism and the real long-term price we pay for all this holidaying. Looking for answers and finding more questions with Debbie Clark from Good-Travel.org joining us from Cape Cod, Zoltan from Dubai, and Balazs from Budapest.

What kind of world are we giving to our kids to grow up in? Will they be able to change the fate of humanity? Do we need to sugarcoat the facts for them or teach them survival skills?Actress and mother Ana Ularu and English and Science teacher Istvan Mihaly joining us to discuss the topic and more. Offspring brought up in the new normal, science classes about climate change and who will save the world for our children if not us…

Markets down, prices up, natural disasters, clueless politics in the soft apocalypse. Can technology save the planet? Climate change and cha-ching from Washington to Dubai with Bruce Porter Jr and Gilson Riberio da Costa.

BAFTA-nominated director of The Girl With a Pearl Earring, and an eco-warrior who runs a facebook group called Apocalypse A-Go-Go, the director of the 2015 documentary Ten Billion, Peter Webber joins hosts Balazs Juszt and Zoltan Rendes to discuss the odds of success in combating climate change when broligarchs stack all the oil they can against it.Overpopulation, (un)natural disasters and measuring stupidity. Data talks, whalepoo walks!