Trumpet Hour

• A plateau in North Central China that was until recently one of the most degraded ecosystems on planet Earth—because of population overgrowth and poor land management—was brought back from the brink of irreversible damage in possibly the largest re-greening project in history.
• Opioids are killing tens of thousands of people, and this crisis is growing worse amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk about some troubling hidden causes for this.
• Housing prices in America are at record highs, and part of the reason is massive real-estate investment companies buying enormous numbers of houses, often way above market value.
• And we talk about the simple but profound answer to how to make life work.

Links

• [03:08] Largest Re-greening Project in History (13 minutes)
  • “Can a Dead Ecosystem Really ‘Blossom as the Rose’?”
• [17:00] The Opioid Crisis (16 minutes)
  • “Opioids: The Crisis Within the Pandemic”
• [33:39] U.S. Real-Estate Prices (6 minutes)
• [39:44] LAST WORD: How to Make Life Work (7 minutes)
  • “Make Life Work”