Threshold
5.0/5
Critic Rating
Threshold is a Peabody Award-winning podcast about people and the planet. Each season, we do a deep dive into one pressing environmental story, exploring it through the intersections of science, politics, culture, and environmental justice. We aim to make space for thoughtful, honest, and intersectional conversations about human relationships with the natural world. Season 4: "Time to 1.5" documents this profound moment in human history, when the window for keeping global heating to 1.5ºC is still open—just barely. Season 3: "The Refuge." The controversy over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Season 2: "Cold Comfort." Climate change in the Arctic thr...
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Lauren Passell • Podcast The Newsletter • May 29, 2023
"The host, Amy, is bright and lyrical. She looks at the world through the lens of a scientists and poet, a person who is focused on the big and small at the same time."
Score: 5
Patricia Nicol • The Times UK • Oct 16, 2022
"(Season: Time To 1.5) Time to 1.5, the latest series from the American environmental show Threshold, succeeds in fixing the listener’s attention by making the climate crisis personal. “Think about something you love, a person, a place,” is how dulcet-toned Amy Martin introduces the first episode."
Score: 5
Holly Kirkpatrick • Rise Collaborative • Jan 18, 2019
"...we often hear from individuals from indigenous communities whose voices have been systematically suppressed. If it’s all sounding a bit serious, be assured that it’s not all doom and gloom. As with any story that is told in-depth, it has light and shade. Threshold does a brilliant job of demonstrating how climate change is interconnected with many other elements, specifically colonization. "
