# Are We Doomed? A podcast by NPR Network. Is the world ending, or does it just feel like it? "Are We Doomed?" investigates the greatest risks facing society, the planet, and our species. What’s real? What’s hype? And how do we actually make it out alive? Nukes. Asteroids. Autocracy. Rogue AI. Climate-driven pandemics. Angry hippopotamuses. Teeth clenched, curiosity engaged, quips ready, this “slightly narrative” podcast explores everything from the existential and the unexpected to the overblown. Award-winning public radio journalist Ben Bradford brings you wild true stories, high-production sound design, and world-class experts answering the questions they never prepared for (“Why is the Earth doing this to us?”). From NuanceTales and distributed by the NPR Network, this show delves into history, science, technology, and the natural world, to help you separate legitimate world-changing risks from doomsday fantasies. Come for the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park (real), stay to learn why the post-apocalyptic wasteland won’t look like the movies (sorry, you won’t be wandering with a shotgun and a dog), and leave with a better understanding of how our brilliant, bumbling species can chart a path through our… Feed: https://publicfeeds.net/f/16857/are-we-doomed ## Latest episodes - [Is the Microplastic In You Really Bad?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/f11b3a7b4e88) (2026-10-27, 33 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/940a9cdc-5cfe-42d6-90af-d7a820fc7a4e/arewedoomed_microplastic_podmix1.mp3 - [How High Can You Build a Seawall?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/2cecec24b47d) (2026-10-13, 33 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/d2dd8a1e-1e91-4dde-b3e7-49aa647bbe96/arewedoomed_neworleans_podmix2.mp3 - [Can Other Planets Tell Us Our Fate?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/8de22787699c) (2026-10-06, 32 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/4dcf554e-f0fb-48dc-ad05-7b1e32ccf74c/arewedoomed_bottleneck_podmix1.mp3 - [Can Science Defeat Aging?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/e1b82819a050) (2026-09-29, 35 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/ea3dedc9-3863-40b9-995a-54e12ef8bf30/arewedoomed_immortal_podmix1.mp3 - [Bug Fight Club](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/6f0b4dbae9a1) (2026-09-22, 40 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/a667d339-2c92-4562-b0e0-187908a10fd0/arewedoomed_invasivebugs_podmix1.mp3 - [Who Keeps Winding the Doomsday Clock?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/4d94e0fe6791) (2026-09-15, 35 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/1e92e0cd-8be7-41e0-b5b6-d851e4dbf826/arewedoomed_clock_podmix1.mp3 - [Can "Scams" Be a Doom?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/caf29bb598ce) (2026-09-08, 36 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/ea350eec-62cb-4b38-b7c5-f609324eb548/arewedoomed_deepfake_podmix1.mp3 - [Just a Minor Sun Explosion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/b4b54fb272f1) (2026-09-01, 37 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/c4a3a747-67f7-48f7-a19b-b72e4cc5e948/arewedoomed_solarstorm_podmix3.mp3 - [The Everything Vaccine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/fc96f6856e4a) (2026-08-25, 41 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/166577fe-93a7-4f9a-a7f0-6ab6ff97997e/arewedoomed_everythingvax_podmix1.mp3 - [What Ever Happened to the Ozone Hole?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/945c82adf85f) (2026-08-18, 38 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/123bf1b5-5c55-4119-bef1-688c834a613b/arewedoomed_ozone_podmix1.mp3 - [More Nukes!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/9174c2bc6450) (2026-08-11, 33 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/de6f04fe-e78d-443d-a52f-b0b7ac7d972d/arewedoomed_nukestoday_podmix1.mp3 - [Did AI Just Escape?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/9de341af1f29) (2026-08-04, 32 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/a44c69e3-4567-42ad-806c-a455ce2aec25/arewedoomed_AIHACKING_podmix.mp3_jay_cowit.mp3 - [Now I'm Scared of Cyborgs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/3526cc5f1b3d) (2026-07-28, 41 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/d0e64cfc-743f-43a7-903e-4e28b490d017/arewedoomed_cyborgs_podmix.mp3.mp3 - [We Are Losing the Moon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/d3df9310eda2) (2026-07-21, 38 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/428fad1b-5e19-4600-818b-6b5da00226bd/arewedoomed_themoon_podmix1.mp3 - [Asteroids! The Doom We're Best At](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/00c344345bf9) (2026-07-14, 37 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/ac8404d1-5e2b-409f-9ce2-2fc64dcafc36/arewedoomed_asteroids_podmix1.mp3 - [Our Vision of the Post-Apocalypse Is Wrong](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/fc7e6ae73a95) (2026-07-07, 34 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/ad63a3c0-4668-4dcd-9d73-ff1c32d9fe0c/arewedoomed_realprepping_podmix1.mp3 - [Is Geoengineering A Good Idea?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/79237261a879) (2026-06-30, 40 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/60f67940-d700-494d-aaf8-36fc9fd070f0/arewedoomed_geoclimate_podmix1.mp3 - [The True AI Threat is People](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/5c61856c5378) (2026-06-23, 36 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/22e076a1-f60c-4a81-8a6d-fda222bb0299/arewedoomed_otherai_podmix2.mp3 - [Is the World Ending or Are We Just Online?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/336733502002) (2026-06-16, 32 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/7cf0ace8-7b16-4ab6-ac0e-3762cb6ec433/arewedoomed_blackboxofdoom_podmix1.mp3 - [Are We Going the Way of the Roman Empire?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/47c2018a4c0a) (2026-06-09, 38 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/a2603bcf-71d6-4c55-906b-15bb69ce1604/arewedoomed_civcollapse_podmix2.mp3 - [We Try and Kill the Internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/263cac2811bf) (2026-06-02, 33 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/01baf3cf-e8ea-434e-9a1e-82c832158b7b/arewedoomed_nointernet_podmix3.mp3 - [Past Dooms That Didn't Arrive](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/6ed8bc73f8a7) (2026-05-26, 35 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/1aefcf77-675f-4a1f-bc6f-13541822b67e/arewedoomed_futurespast_podmix.mp3 - [How To Survive a Nuclear War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/dc92dc9f90b9) (2026-05-19, 38 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/f3bdfeee-058c-428f-bd48-b3d4eba90d17/arewedoomed_survivenukes_podmix2.mp3 - [How Do You Kill a Mosquito?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/52bc81586112) (2026-05-12, 36 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/3d322179-a2f6-4388-b00f-39ee7515dc92/arewedoomed_usvsmosqutio_podmix.mp3 - [Supervolcano!](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/0faeaa896224) (2026-05-05, 41 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/e95c8920-94ea-4ea6-833e-e582ba912ec7/arewedoomed_supervolcan_podmix2.mp3 - [Let’s Design the AI That Kills Us All](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/dd8742e1d218) (2026-04-28, 36 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/046c2c22-215a-429b-8372-e740190942a5/arewedoomed_killerai_podmix2.mp3 - [How To Start a Nuclear War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/7a8d2849a46b) (2026-04-28, 38 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/d90e2f74-f1be-45bc-bc96-261f737dd75c/arewedoomed_nuked_podmix.mp3 - [Introducing Are We Doomed?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1893359212/025134e5e0c0) (2026-04-21, 3 min): audio https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/dovetail.prxu.org/16857/30b56341-0a46-4f37-bd55-c792710c2588/arewedoomed_trailer_1_podmix2.mp3 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. 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