How do fossil fuel executives think? They know their business is responsible for mass murder, and they work hard to cover it up. They know exactly what they are doing. So what's going on up there? We offer some informed speculation, plus recent climate news.

For this episode, we explore why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldnt ignore silly arguments denying climate change.

People are always helping one another cope with troubles and shortages and disasters. When that assistance is organized as a collaborative exchange of help, it's sometimes called a "mutual aid society." As we increasingly get walloped by the climate crisis, we're going to need mutual aid societies more than ever before. For this episode, Jack Baldwin looks at one mutual aid society in Austin, Texas that tries to aid vulnerable local folks cope with extreme heat and extreme weather. You're going to hear from Sasha Rose and Fran Tay-too of the group Austin Mutual Aid.

What point in history would you live in if you could choose any time? Martin Luther King’s answer was right now, ‘This moment.’ Alycee gives the same answer. With one guest from Italy and another from the United States, we offer a touch of qualified optimism after last week’s devastating episode.

Let's look back at the climate disasters of the last six months or so of 2023. There were many, and most of them were never covered in the U.S. mass media. Running through these disasters rapid fire will hopefully show how dire the climate crisis is--not years from now, not for the next century, not for our grandkids, but for us. Right now.

As recently as 2021, climate activists in the U.S. and U.K. received very lenient treatment from police and judges, even when they did civil disobedience. Why? Probably because visible climate activists are mostly white. But it also seemed like authorities in the global north just didn't want to crack down on this cause. Well, things have changed, and they've changed because climate activists have made enough progress and media spectacles to threaten fossil fuel profits. Now the state is bringing down the hammer -- from Atlanta to London to New Delhi. In this episode we talk all about evolving climate activist suppression, and what to do about it.

The war on Palestine is both a humanitarian disaster and a climate disaster. Every shell, every tank, every rocket burns emissions. And the humanitarian scale is beyond easy comprehension. Our entry point into this topic is Alycee's trajectory as a climate activist and writer, and how she got particularly interested in militarism as a neglected dimension of global heating.

(We took off for the holidays, but plenty of new content is coming for 2024. Stay tuned!).

From the United States to Tunisia, politicians are using climate migration to get votes. The Dutch election in November 2023 that saw a long-time Prime Minister make way for a far-right anti-Muslim radical was fundamentally about migration. And in the U.K., reality is stranger than fiction, as parliament supports a bill to mass-deport migrants to Rwanda. We wish we were joking.

COP 28, meeting right now, is the global fossil fuel conference masquerading as a climate change solution. We're talking about how COP 28 will of course solve all the world's problems and set the climate on a perfect trajectory with nothing to worry about afterwards—and why all that is not true.

We have passed the Paris climate targets. Entire months at a time are now more than 1.5C above historic norms. So are world leaders taking emergency measures? Nope. For this episode, we talk about rising temperatures and climate inaction.