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This week we are taking stock with Dr James Dyke. James is a an Associate Professor in Earth System Science, and Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter. James has written extensively for The i newspaper, The Guardian and The Ecologist on the climate crisis. 

Ads, Andrew and James discuss where the the climate movement is right now, how deep time plays into the effects we are having on the planet, when good people do bad things because of poor systems and what happens next if 1.5°C fails.

Links
You can buy James Photographic essay on climate change " Fire, Storm and Flood: The violence of climate change" HERE

Check out James' blog HERE

Shout Outs
Edred Whittingham an activist who's taken part in direction action with Just Stop Oil and is currently on trail for trying to stop climate breakdown 

Ali Roe, working with medical and health workers on the affects of climate change. 

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You might be forgiven thinking that something as huge and undeniable as climate change would manage to stay out of the way of the madness that is right wing culture wars. And you'd be wrong. As strategies to mitigate climate change start to be implemented around the world, the long shadow of conspiracy, moral panic and hysteria are circling the internet and their coming for your air source heat pump!

This week on the show we are joined by Ketan Joshi ( KetanJ0). Ketan  is a communications and research consultant working with European climate organizations currently based in Norway and has recently been writing about how conspiracy theories and culture war can affect climate change policy.  we discussed the bizarre controversy over gas stoves in the US,  how Covid-19 conspiracy theorists have moved into climate change culture war and how to combat climate disinformation.

Links
Read Ketan's article "The Dawn of the Gas Stove Denialism" at New Republic

Tracking conspiracies during COP 27

Renew Economy Aus

Shout outs
first nations clean energy network  in Australia
 Senator Bernie Sanders

Josh Davies and David Wilkinson at UCU. 

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This week on the show we are joined by Dr Sarah Watts, an expert in all things montane  botany. We discuss what over grazing has done to Scotland's mountainous regions, the complex systems of inter species co-operation that make up highland forests, what plants and trees should we reintroduce into Britain and how Scotland used to be and could like Scandinavia again.

Links
Read Sarah's paper on the benefits of mountain woodland restoration here.

Read Felicity  Monger's paper on the impact of mountain tree planting on lowland floods here

Reforesting Scotland's mountain Birch Project.

Botanical society of Britain and Ireland

Shout out
All of Sarah's mates doing their PHDs at the University of sterling

All the people who took a stand against the fascists attacking the refugees in Knowesley on the weekend.

Support Care for Calais and help refugees in Calais and across Europe. 
https://care4calais.org/donate-now/
@Care4Calais

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This weeks show covers about 71% of the globe and some how we haven't talked about it before.  The Green New Deal is a plan for economic and ecological transformation across the earth. But where do the sea and ocean play into this? Do we need a plan for making sure this vast space full of resources and natural beauty is saved from the logic of the market?

This week on the show we are joined by Professor Chris Armstrong, author of the new book "A Blue New Deal: Why we need a new politics for the ocean".  We discuss with Chris how U.N. treaties have shaped the current exploitation of the Global South through fishing rights and sea bed mining , how we can develop carbon-negative industries by caring for the sea and he lays out the arguments for a treaty on the rights of sea life.

LINKS
Chris' website
you can buy Chris' book here

Progress on the High Seas Treaty

 U.N Convention of the Law of the Sea

Stella Maris

Shout Outs
Ocean Rebellion @oceanrebellion
Sea Shepherd @seashepherd

Support to everyone out on strike on Feb 1st. Teachers, Rail workers, Nurses, Ambulance drivers. You're all fighting for a better world. @eiecampaign

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We've been sounding the alarm about biodiversity from the very beginning of this podcast. If the ecology of the planet goes, we all go with it. So what are nation states doing to reverse the damage done? 

This week on the show we are joined by climate journalist Daisy Dunne. Daisy is a special correspondent for Carbon Brief and was part of their team covering COP 15 in Montreal. We discuss what happen at COP 15, what are the new biodiversity targets, how geopolitics shapes the targets and why the biodiversity summit gets scant attention compared to the COP on carbon emissions. We also discussed the difficulties of being a climate journalist and how to balance being the canary in the coal mine while leading a normal life. 

Links

The COP15 Agreement

Daisy's coverage of COP 15

Daisy's piece on the disappearance of our glaciers for Carbon Brief

Marlowe Hood: Watching the world burn

Shout outs
Home Tree- a project to rejuvenate Ireland's Atlantic rain forest.
Marlowe Hood- excellent climate journalist
Lützerath bleibt! - German activists that have occupied a town to stop the expansion of a coal mine. 

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Happy New Pod! It's a new year, so its the perfect time to reassess where we are and what we are fighting for. Let's get back to basics: Carbon emissions, average temperatures and 1.5°C. Can we still keep a habitable planet?

This week on the show we are delighted to have back on the podcast Professor Kevin Anderson. Kevin is a energy and climate scientist formerly of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change.  We discuss what is Net Zero and why it is hindering our ability to reduce emissions. Is 1.5°C warming still viable? And what would that mean for the planet? Kevin also talks us through what governments of the world need to do right now to keep the planet safe.   

Links
Climate Uncensored: Kevin's new climate science education project.

Shout outs
Michael Gove MP: for focusing the country on the government's disastrous fossil fuel projects, including the Cumbria coalmine.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò: for their excellent work on climate change and colonialism. We'd love you to come on the show!

Everyone out there building and fighting for a better world in 2023.

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Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah and a happy festive time to all!

We've got the whole team around the Christmas dinner table to discuss the ups and downs of 2022. Expect copious amounts of gravy, a lump of coal in Cumbria's stocking  and some half earth socialism too. 

Thanks for everyone who's supported us on Patreon this year, with your help we've been able to commission fantastic articles over on gndmedia.co.uk , publish videos, send the team to events and run the best climate podcast in the north west. 

why don't you give the gift of climate journalism this year and join the fine folk over at pateron.com/gndmediauk

We shall see you bright and early in 2023

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Public ownership is back on the agenda. With energy companies reporting record profits while people choose between eating and heating this winter, calls for renationalising our energy system are gaining traction. However, our demands cannot be shackled to past solutions. To create a truly democratic and sustainable energy sector fit for the 21st century, we must envisage new models of public ownership.

This weeks show is a live panel from The World Transformed at Labour Conference 2022.   

Chris Saltmarsh co-founder Labour for a Green New Deal and author of "Burnt: Fighting for climate justice"

Hazel Nolan: regional organiser for GMB in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber

Matthew Lawrence founder of the think tank Common Wealth and co-author of "Owning the Future: Power and property  in an age of crisis."

The panel is chaired by India Burgess from the think tank Autonomy 

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This episode originally aired on November 8th 2021

If you've seen the news in the UK in the last month, you'll be well aware that our old energy system is having a bad time.

With gas prices spiking, all the noise from COP26, and the public's temperament towards climate activism cooling, it's probably worth figuring out what the hell is going on with our energy supply, and how we make it equitable and  sustainable for generations to come.

This week on the show we are joined by Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow). Jan is the European director of the Regulatory assistance project (RAP) which is dedicated to speeding up the transition to clean and green energy. He also is a special advisor to the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and industrial Strategy (BEIS).

We discuss what is causing the current energy crisis,  who has a stake in for the UK's future energy mix (and what measures they'll go to to defend those stakes,) what politics is created by energy production, and the viability of community energy systems.


Shout outs
Louise Sunderland  (@sunderlandlouis)

Ellie Radcliffe and Laura Williams for their work on the community wealth building tool kit with CLES (@ellieradcliffe9)

Links
CLES Community wealth building toolkit
https://t.co/i7IhBNtewA?amp=1

Rhiannon Osbourne (@rhiannon_osborn) confronting Kwasi Kwarteng
https://twitter.com/StopCambo/status/1456271753223671810

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This summer immense flooding struck Pakistan and devastated the landscape and its people.  31 million people have been displaced and the country is a long way from recovery. Today COP 27 starts in Egypt. Loss and Damages are right at the top of the agenda and the fight continues for reparation  for those already affected by climate breakdown. 

This week we welcome back on the show Asad Rehman from War on Want.  We discuss the cataclysmic flooding in Pakistan, how colonialism exacerbated the flooding  and how the global south is left defenseless through debt . Asad also talks us through COP27, what's on the line and how mass movements from Africa and round the world are fighting for change in Egypt and against the Egyptian government.


Links
Walter Rodney: How Europe underdeveloped Africa

Naomi Klein in the Intercept "from Blah Blah Blah to blood,blood blood"

War on want - https://waronwant.org/

Cop27 Coalition -https://www.cop27coalition.org/


Shout outs

Via Campesina- the global coalition of farm workers
https://viacampesina.org/en/

Refugee Council- for speaking out against the Home secretary 
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/

RNLI - who continue to rescue refugees in the English Channel against the will of the British Government. 

DJ Pro P for bringing the heat at the working class voices event

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