Green Majority Radio

We imagine with Eric Holthaus what this decade could become if we actually tackle the crisis. Emma McIntosh joins us again to discuss the ongoing Wet’suwet’en struggle against the RCMP in Northern BC - also BlackRock, the Teck Frontier mine, wildfires and how weather shapes culture.

Our colonial contradictions continue to threaten Indigenous peoples and the environment. We talk about the Wet’suwet’en struggle against a pipeline in Northern BC, Iran, Australian fires, Indonesia, India and corporate feudalism.

We look back at 2019 and the 10’s and look forward to the 2020’s in the world of environmental justice. We also play a 20-minute sound art piece put together from YouTube videos to illustrate our climate conundrum.

We talk about COP25, a Canadian Green New Deal, India, climate litigation, greenwashing and Christmas.

We discuss Canada’s climate commitments both federal and provincial, the piles of cash ripe for investment in the Green New Deal, and the consumerist ideology that paralyses public power. We’re joined by the National Observer’s Emma McIntosh and The Logic’s Famita Sayed .

We outline the contemporary role of citizens’ assemblies in widening democracy and their potential for addressing the climate crisis. We then look at Jane McAlevey’s ideas about organizing, a scientific warning about tipping points and two new developments in green tech.

We discuss the mistaken platitudes of certain environmental commentators, the UN emissions gap report, the impacts of displacement, Doug Ford, protests, the divestment movement and Iron + Earth.

We talk about fossil fuel divestment, carbon pricing, Canada’s new environment minister, offshore wind, renewable energy, pipelines and coal.

We discuss a hopeful vision of a community-centred eco-transformation, talk with Erika Reyes of WiseBird and briefly think about Jeremy Corbyn’s environmental plan.

We talk about worldwide unrest, COP25 and CBC Kids News. Kim D’Oliveira joins us in the second segment to discuss various attempts towards a circular economy.