Earthbound explores the human story of a planet in transition. We live in the Anthropocene, an age in which human activity is reshaping Earth’s climate and life-support systems—and those planetary changes, in turn, are reshaping who we are.

Hosted by Thomas Schueneman, Earthbound brings together scientists, historians, philosophers, Indigenous leaders, health experts, activists, and artists to ask:

1. How does a warming, destabilized Earth affect our bodies, minds, and communities?
2. What happens to our politics, economies, and cultures as old assumptions about growth and domination break down?
3. Where can we find wisdom, resilience, and imagination as we face ecological limits and moral crossroads?

Through deep conversations and grounded storytelling, Earthbound looks beyond headlines to the lived experience, ethics, and inner life of the Anthropocene—and invites listeners into a more honest, humane, and hopeful conversation about our shared future on this finite, living world.

Subscribe now at EarthboundPodcast.com

The planet is warming.

You already knew that part.

You've seen the headlines, maybe even seen the graphs.

But the thing that keeps nagging at me is what does that actually mean for how we live, for how we work, love, raise kids, tell stories, and get through the day?

Hello, I'm Thomas Schuenemann.

I write about climate and the environment, I make audio, and I like to think out loud with other people who are trying to make sense of this moment.

The show is called Earthbound.

On Earthbound, I talk with scientists and philosophers, activists, authors and artists, indigenous leaders, policy folks, entrepreneurs and everyday people.

Sometimes it's an interview, sometimes it's just me narrating a story or working through an idea with you.

Together, we look at how a changing Earth is reshaping our lives and how our choices, values and imaginations are reshaping the planet.

In return, we get into climate, politics and planetary health, sure, but also environmental justice, mental well being, psychology, spirituality, history, myth, the quiet work of repairing our relationship with nature and with each other.

I don't pretend things are fine.

They're not.

But this is not a doom scroll feed in audio form.

I'm not interested in leaving you hopeless either.

Earthbound is meant to be clear eyed and human sized.

Thoughtful conversations and stories that give you a bit more context, a bit more language, maybe even a bit more courage for life on a warming planet.

We ask questions like how is this era, the Anthropocene, changing our bodies, our minds, cultures and institutions?

How are our stories and economies changing the Earth in return?

And what might it look like to live more wisely and honestly in the middle of all that?

If you're looking beyond hot takes and headline whiplash, if you want to sit with real people and real stories about being human on a warming planet, I hope you'll join me.

Search for Earthbound in your favorite podcast app or head to earthboundpodcast.com to listen and subscribe.

Thanks for listening and we'll see you soon on Earthbound.

SA.