WHY THRESHOLD?

This is a pivotal moment in human history. The decisions we make now will define the next century, if not the next millennium. In the future, we’ll look back at this time and wonder how the people alive today could have talked about anything other than the health and well-being of our only home.

But now, as the tides literally begin to rise around us, the enormity of the changes can be hard to discern. Our lives are busy. We’re distracted. With millions of voices shouting (and tweeting) in our ears, it’s very difficult to hear the deeper rhythms at work. We don’t lack data — we consume mountains of information each day. What we lack is context and perspective.

That’s why I created Threshold. My goal is to make a show where listeners can learn without feeling preached to, empathize with people they didn’t expect to like, and imagine things they didn’t think were possible. I want to find and tell the complicated, beautiful, heartbreaking and fascinating stories of how humans relate to everything outside of our own species-centric bubble — all of this stuff we call “the environment.” I want to bring more people into the conversation, and transform scientific data into stories that live and breathe. I want Threshold to be a place for honest inquiry, deep thinking, and emotionally alive exploration of our relationships with the natural world.

I want to tell the truth about our environmental situation, and grapple with it.

- Amy Martin