Welcome to Carpathia, a podcast about saving what’s left.
These are dark times. Humanity has made some catastrophic mistakes. The experts all agree: we f*cked up. The worst thing about this self-made disaster is, we don’t have a Planet B. It doesn’t exist. As a famous astrophysicist once said, this pale blue dot is our only home. So we have to fix our mistakes as best we can. It can feel overwhelming and it’s easy to lose hope. I think a lot of us have. Why save the world when you can sit on your couch doomscrolling, waiting for the inevitable collapse of society with a bag of potato chips and vegan ice cream in your lap? I get it. But hear me out as I offer you a cliche’ full of truth: In dark times, we have to look for the light. So that’s what we are doing here at Carpathia. Our mission is to raise awareness about the fragility of life on Earth while highlighting the good people and organizations working to save us from the mess we find ourselves in. As we build solutions to save humanity — and all life on Earth — from an uncertain fate, we are building our own Carpathia.
Why is it called Carpathia?
Does the name ring a bell? It should. At 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, an iceberg was spotted immediately ahead of the RMS Titanic. Less than three hours later, at 2:20 a.m., the “unsinkable” ocean liner sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The RMS Carpathia received Titanic’s distress call and navigated dangerous ice fields to come to the rescue. In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, Carpathia pulled 705 survivors from the life boats left behind by Titanic.
The RMS Carpathia was named after the Carpathian Mountain Range, which is speculated to have originated from an Old English word meaning “to turn or change,” perhaps referring to the way the mountain range bends. This symbolizes our species changing, adapting, and evolving in order to survive. Either that, or we crash straight into the iceberg. It’s up to us.
Sounds great, when can I listen?
The first episodes of Carpathia will be released in April 2027.
Instead of screaming into the void, call us!
We want our listeners to participate in this project. Share your internal dialogue with us. How will it end? Can we solve it? What message do you want to leave behind? Leave your voicemail or send us an email here.
“We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”
— Albert Einstein
“The world would end neither with a bang or a whimper, but with a push notification.”
— Mark O’Connell
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.”
— Carl Sagan