Climate Action Show

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more.Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective. https://www.podchaser.com/creators/mark-spencer-107Zzj7JFC Meg Clancy - Actor, Dancer and  Major Contributor to NITV Lyn Bender - Psychologist and former Manager of Lifeline Melbourne . Recent journalism https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/critics-of-glazers-oscars-speech-prove-the-relevance-of-the-zone-of-interest,18451https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/israeli-propaganda-bordering-on-absurdity,18396 Part 2 :By kind permission here is  recent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson by Radio Ecoshock Host Alex Smith .As Alex says: Following the publication of “The Ministry of the Future”, Robinson toured internationally not to promote the book but to discuss it. He an ambassador for a novel – and for a future. Big Capitalists like Bill Gates blogged about Robinson’s book. The Financial Times reported his meetings with bankers, investors and even the military. Yet many of Kim’s books search for alternatives to Capitalism. Does Capitalism have to go, and is there any alternative? We discuss in the interview.https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/03/climate-sci-fi-gets-too-real.html

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more.Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective. https://www.podchaser.com/creators/mark-spencer-107Zzj7JFC Meg Clancy - Actor, Dancer and  Major Contributor to NITV Lyn Bender - Psychologist and former Manager of Lifeline Melbourne . Recent journalism https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/critics-of-glazers-oscars-speech-prove-the-relevance-of-the-zone-of-interest,18451https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/israeli-propaganda-bordering-on-absurdity,18396 Part 2 :By kind permission here is  recent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson by Radio Ecoshock Host Alex Smith .As Alex says: Following the publication of “The Ministry of the Future”, Robinson toured internationally not to promote the book but to discuss it. He an ambassador for a novel – and for a future. Big Capitalists like Bill Gates blogged about Robinson’s book. The Financial Times reported his meetings with bankers, investors and even the military. Yet many of Kim’s books search for alternatives to Capitalism. Does Capitalism have to go, and is there any alternative? We discuss in the interview.https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/03/climate-sci-fi-gets-too-real.html

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 1ST 2024Produced by Vivien Langford D O N ' T    L O O K   A W A Y.FROM PLUMES OF SMOKE IN THE FOREST, FROM FUGITIVE METHANE NEAR GAS WELLS AND FROM STARVATION IN PALESTINEGuests: Dr Philip Zylstra - Curtin University and UNSW -Expert at nipping bushfires in the bud.https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/prescribed-burning-could-be-making-aussie-forests-more-flammable Piper Rollins Climate Campaigner from Australian Conservation Foundation https://www.acf.org.au/australia-dramatically-underreporting-gas-and-coal-methane-emissions David Rovics with his new album Notes from a Holocaust https://davidrovics.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-a-holocaust Don't look away from actual Bushfire BehaviourAssociate Professor Philip Zylstra, from Curtin University, said: “If they’re too tall to catch fire, plants calm bushfires by slowing the wind beneath them. If disturbance kills those taller plants, replacements regrow from the ground and add to the fuel. Prescribed burns are a fire mitigation tool used with the aim of reducing fuel load to minimise the intensity and severity of fires.  However, while prescribed burns can sometimes decrease flammability in the short term, the way they disrupt forest ecosystems can create longer periods of additional flammability.  “Very frequent burning close to homes or control lines could create defendable spaces, but large, remote and infrequent burns maintain the landscape at maximum fire risk because they undermine the natural controls that forests place on fire," Associate Professor Zylstra said. The remote areas that burn have often been extensively logged eg Eden NSW Don't look away from methane :  An investigation by ACF and the global non-profit Clean Air Task Force last year detected methane escaping from more than 100 sources at 35 industrial sites in Queensland and NSW.  “When it comes to rapidly reducing Australia’s most potent climate heating pollution, cutting methane emissions from the coal and gas industry is low hanging fruit.”Methane emissions are believed to account for about 30% of the global temperature rise since the industrial revolution. Don't look away from PalestineDavid Rovics' new album of songs was composed between October and December 2023He says "  I wrote them to bear witness to the genocide of the Palestinian people that continues by the hour as I publish this album."Hear the drones above your headWhat were the last words that she saidBefore she joined the thousands deadAs the bombs rain down

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 18TH, 2024FOREST PROTECTION AND COP 28 GUESTS;MARK GRAHAM - Ecologist in the Gondwanaland forests of Northern NSW- Great Koala National Park areaDORO BABECK - Bob Brown Foundation organiser of the March in March AT COP28 on Transforming the food system KIRTANA CHANDRASEKERERKELLY DENT, ARNOLD PADILLA

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWMARCH 11TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY- ARTISTS FOR CLIMATE ACTIONGuests:Kerrie LeishmanJanet Laurence BUSHFIRES AND FLOODS- HOW TO BE PREPAREDFreja Leonard interviewed by Sean O'Shannessy - Environmental as anything

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWMARCH 4TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordTOXIC RHETORIC . SOCIAL LICENCE  and TARKINE OPTIMISM"The  future  is  shaped  by  those  who  can  see  it." Guests:John Grimes - CEO Smart Energy CouncilDr Freya Croft - Blue Futures Lab at Wollongong University - https://www.uow.edu.au/ancors/blue-energy-futures-lab/Dr Colette Harmsen - Bob Brown FoundationTOXIC RHETORIC"Turbines make us sick" was a farm gateway sign ten years ago in regional Victoria. We interviewed Dr Simon Chapman who was turning himself inside out giving evidence to senate inquiries. He was  contesting  the organised narrative of illness around windfarms and opponents are still organised. Now Coalition MPs and their allies appear at Reckless Renewables rallies. Their hostility, even to wind farms 10kilometres offshore, is building up as renewable Energy Zones are declared. We speak to John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council. SOCIAL LICENCEThen we go to Wollongong University, where Dr Freya Croft is working on how to create  social licence for the energy transition that is roilling out too slowly. Plus an historical reminder:In 1903 there were 3623 horsedrawn buses in London and 13 motor busesIn 1913 there were 3522 motor buses and only 142 horse drawn buses"The future is shaped by those who can see it." TARKINE OPTIMISMForest Action is profound Climate Restoration, so we go to Tasmania. Dr Colette Harmsen is a veterinary scientist. In this exclusive interview she speaks to us about how she and Bob Brown were arrested recently and why taking climate action is an antidote to depresssion.As Bob Brown said : "Change doesn’t happen when we are in our comfort zone. It is uncomfortable by nature. If it’s not uncomfortable, then check again – is anything actually changing, or are we just re-arranging the deck chairs? The higher the stakes, the greater the risks that need taking. As leaders, we must take risks. We must find a way to quieten the voice of fear and doubt and back ourselves against the inevitable barrage of resistance."Meanwhile Protesters have gone back to the Styx Valley to  peacefully interrupt logging.“While fellow forest defender Ali Alishah is in jail today, we are defending these forests from destruction. The fact that peaceful protesters are being gaoled and face severe penalties for standing up against this destruction will not deter us. It is the native forest logging that is criminal in a climate emergency and extinction crisis,” said Dr Lisa Searle, Campaign Organiser with BBF.“This logging of ancient forests in southern Tasmania is absolutely disgraceful. The government should be ashamed for sanctioning this devastation. We will continue to take action and defend these precious forests until we see a commitment from our leaders to end native forest logging. There is an opportunity right now for Tasmanian voters to make a choice: vote for protecting forests and wildlife or more logging destruction,” she said.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-04/tasmania-expands-native-logging-areas/102552280

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWFEBRUARY 26TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford G O O D   F O R   T H E   G O N G Episode 2 - BUILDING OUR FUTUREGuests:Abigail Boyd - NSW Parliament -  Greens MLC  We talk about getting the Energy sector back into Public hands as we make the big transition from centralised utilities to a multiplicity of providers. Denmark leads the world in Wind Power with publicly owned energy. In the Netherlands it is illegal to privatize water or energy networks. A Rally against Reckless Renewables  was held outside the Federal Parliament on its first day of sitting. Figures like Barnaby Joyce called for a suspension of wind and solar farms.  They want to end the ban on nuclear energy in Australia. John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council called out the toxic rhetoric and said "Its outrageous that David Littleproud is calling for a moratorium on renewables putting more than 60,000 Australian Renewable Energy Jobs under threat". We will delve into this some more next week.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/canberra-reckless-renewables-rally-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories Tim Buckley - Director Climate Energy Finance at IEEFA in converstaion with Sean O'Shannessy on Environmental as Anything : https://environmentalasanything.podbean.com/ Please support his podcast. The IEEFA 2023 Roundup Report referred to in the conversation is here:https://createsend.com/t/y-E062C6EA8740F5392540EF23F30FEDEDFar from the idea of reckless renewables Tim Buckley's topics are :Bowen turbocharges renewablesThe Net Zero Act in NSW and the move to renewables in Victoria and Queesland mean we are rocketting ahead.China is zooming with 20 GW installed every month in new wind and solarUSA is spending $1 trillion to stimulate decarbonisation. Music : Xavier Rudd - "Stoney Road"- Winner of the Environmental Music Prize 2023

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWFEBRUARY 26TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford GOOD FOR THE GONG Episode 2 - BUILDING OUR FUTUREGuests:

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWFEBRUARY 19TH 2024Produced by Vivien LangfordG O O D   F O R    T H E    G O N GILLAWARRA OFFSHORE WIND PROJECTGuests:Darryl Best - Ex coal minerKristen Mac Donald -  Rewiring Australia and Good for the GongMartin Cubby - NTEU Rep at Wollongong University

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWDECEMBER 11TH 2023Produced by Vivien Langford NEWCASTLE PEOPLE'S BLOCKADE - EPISODE 2 Guests:Sue Higginson MP in NSW Parliament on achieving 75% emissions reduction by 2030+100%by 2035 Dominique Jacobs from the Knitting Nannas  reporting on the arrests after Newcastle Blockade Sinead Francis-Coen on the Transition of Hunter Valley Coal miners into new training and jobs. Sarah Ellyard RN - Psychiatric Nurse from Frontline Health Workers on heatwaves and other disasters Dr Nicole Sleeman - Doctors for the Environment on the value of collective action v climate anxiety Graham Wood - Engineer and writer "Their Future is in your hands" Gawaine Powell-Davies - Head of NSW Buddhist Council on Meeting MP Chris Bowen Thea Ormerod - CEO Australian Religious Response to Climate Change on prayer, pressure and care. Christ Bowen Federal MP and Minister for Climate Change challenged by  Adam Bandt Federal MP and Leader of the Greens Party on why Australia continues to approve new coal and gas projects for export profit.