Episode 8 – We Are Under the Weather

Season 2 Episode 1 - We Are Water

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.

Episode 9 - We Are Art

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.

Episode 8 – We Are Under the Weather

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.

Episode 7 - We Are Algorithms

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.

Episode 6: We Are Social

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.