For years, Tamara Lindeman, the singer, songwriter, actress and activist, has been on the front lines of the climate crisis. You can hear it wrapped in the DNA of her longtime musical project, The Weather Station.

After 2021’s breakout album, Ignorance, Lindeman went through what she calls a period of disorientation. Her new album, Humanhood, is about the struggle Lindeman went through and the long way back to finding yourself. It’s a gorgeous album that’s not afraid to take chances.

Coming up, Lindeman joins me to dig talk about leaning into humanity in an increasingly AI-driven world, and she offers some helpful advice to those feeling helpless about protecting the one planet we’ve got.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Stephen Kallao and Will Loftus. The web story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our senior producer is Kimberly Junod.