Episodios

  • Grandmothers Who Get Arrested

    Grandmothers Who Get Arrested
    Jul 6 2025
    Just a short time ago, there were far more street protests, including confrontational civil disobedience where folks deliberately got arrested. We talk with two of them about the experience. As they explain, it's not about getting arrested. It's about bringing attention to the climate crisis that they fear will have a terrible impact on their grandchildren's lives. Through them we hear eyewitness accounts of an action that blocked the home of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, an action that blocked the Manhattan headquarters of JP Morgan Chase, and an action at the Bow Coal Plant in New Hampshire where there might have been more police than protesters.
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    28 m
  • A Rotobic ICE Hurts Our Climate Response

    A Rotobic ICE Hurts Our Climate Response
    Jun 29 2025
    We open with a comment on the Iranian bombings and what they have to do with the climate crisis, then move into the first of a two-part discussion on immigration and climate. The Los Angeles raids and protests are a great illustration of how ICE uses a robotic approach of not considering the social impacts of what they are doing. The thing is, there is a deep tradition of law enforcement trying to consider the social impacts of their policing. Bringing that back in the right kind of way is how we can dramatically improve immigration enforcement. And we'd better do that, because many millions more are coming as the climate crisis makes Central America uninhabitable.
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    55 m
  • Speaking Out Even When You're Afraid

    Speaking Out Even When You're Afraid
    Jun 22 2025
    After a quick note on what happens when there's no more insurance in a climate changed world, we talk about fear of speaking out. We start with the real life example of a wealthy and well-connected person with strong advocacy skills who is not speaking out against the Trump administration out of fear of what could happen to her grandchildren. We digest that and talk about how to feel fear and act anyway.
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  • What They Can Do To Palestinian Activism They Can Do To Climate Activism

    What They Can Do To Palestinian Activism They Can Do To Climate Activism
    Jun 3 2025
    Whatever authorities can do to one social movement they can do to another one. Watch what's happening to truth-telling about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That could happen in the future to truth-telling about climate change: Individual spokespeople detained or deported without hearings, academic studies de-funded, a society of fear where organizations anticipatorily crack down on what they imagine the authorities would object to, and a general shut-down of truth. This episode tells some truth about the Palestinian conflict to illustrate the point, and goes on to say that the solution is to speak out. Cowering in fear becomes permanent if we don't.
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  • Could Lawsuits for Damages Close Down Fossil Fuel?

    Could Lawsuits for Damages Close Down Fossil Fuel?
    May 19 2025
    Could lawsuits against fossil fuel companies save the climate? Maybe. If the companies had to pay for even a fraction of the destruction they are causing, they would quickly go out of business. Alycee (who is an attorney) and Matthew (who is not) discuss. Also, the utopia of being truthful, and our semblance of constitutional order.
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  • Catching Up On Climate Disasters

    Catching Up On Climate Disasters
    May 13 2025
    We periodically compile some of the climate disasters happening all around the world. This is to show that climate change is causing havoc now. It is a problem for us, not for our grandchildren. This episode consists of some notes on disasters I found in my files and, I believe, have not used; hopefully listeners will pardon the out-of-chronological narration. We end with a survival story we think you will never forget.
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  • College Students Doing Climate Research

    College Students Doing Climate Research
    Apr 28 2025
    Most of the guests on this series are credentialed experts who are old, or at least not particularly young. But younger people research the climate, and reflect carefully on the situation. This week we have three students from the University of Liverpool who took a climate course last year that was taught by the producer of this show. One wrote her term paper about geoengineering, one about greenwashing, and one about plant-based diets. The conversation then moves to artificial intelligence, which is climate connected because it uses a huge amount of energy. It's compelling to hear the perspective of these students (aged 21, 21, and 22) who will have to live in a world that is not only climate changed but with omnipresent artificial intelligence.
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  • Mike Berners-Lee on a Climate of Truth

    Mike Berners-Lee on a Climate of Truth
    Apr 20 2025
    Mike Berners-Lee, the author of There Is No Planet B and other books, joins us to talk about his newest release: A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It And How To Get It. He makes the case for a no-tolerance attitude to dishonesty in politics, media and business. We explore and critique this with him. His core claim is that enforcing the highest standards of honesty in public discourse is the best chance of getting the necessary global action to address climate change and the other crises we're facing.
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    55 m