This week we wrap up our exploration of the ways "national security" impacts our climate crisis. For this show, Basav Sen joins us to answer the question, “is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier?” Basav Sen is Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies. [Broadcast on May 10, 2022]

After a long COVID hiatus, Extinction Rebellion in New York City and elsewhere came back strong this Spring, engaging in blockades and other acts of civil disobedience. And on Earth Day in every part of the country, people rose up to protest climate inaction. [Broadcast on May 3, 2022]

Continuing to flip the script on the Pentagon mantra that climate change is a national security threat and a “threat multiplier,” we again ask “is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier?” For this episode, we hear from Claire Nelson, who answers the question from a Caribbean perspective. Claire is CEO & Ideation Leader for The Futures Forum, and member of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation. (Broadcast on April 19, 2022)

In this episode, Jack Baldwin and Matthew Kearney offer their rebellions take on Don't Look Up, a film widely viewed as an allegory for the climate crisis and a satire on climate inaction. [Broadcast on April 5, 2022]

There are quite a few climate activists, most notably Dr. James Hansen, who advocate for nuclear power as a viable solution to the climate crisis. In this interview with Mari Inoue of the group The Manhattan Project, we hear the other side of the debate, as Ms. Inoue argues the case against nuclear energy. This is the first of a projected two-part series on the nuclear issue. [Broadcast on March 29, 2022]

Everyone in the world is talking about Ukraine and so are we, for the climate crisis is fundamental both to Russia's war on Ukraine and to NATO's power plays. What is unfolding in Europe at this crucial moment is a harbinger of western climate conflicts to come.

You've heard the mantra before: climate change is a threat multiplier. But do we have it backwards? Is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier? For the next few episodes of our militarism and climate crisis series, we pose this question to a number of people, the first of whom is John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

In this episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio (broadcast on March 1, 2022), we discuss with Allen McGonagill XR's use of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance. Allen is a member of the Strategy Working Group for XR Boston, who on the last episode presented uninterrupted the rationale behind XR's strategy and tactics.

In this episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio (broadcast on February 22, 2022), we give the floor to Allen McGonagill, member of the Strategy Working Group for XR Boston. Allen explains uninterrupted the rationale behind XR's use of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance, which we then converse with him about in the show that follows.

Although it has faded from public attention, COP26 was a fiasco we must not forget. In this episode, we take an even deeper dive into the empty promises dressed up as government action on our climate crisis.