Green Wave

Slovak voters head to the polls on the 30th September for early parliamentary elections. One of the winners looks set to be former Prime Minister Robert Fico - forced out after the 2018 murder of an investigative journalist - and now helped along by alt-right and pro-Kremlin narratives. So what happened? From covid to the war in Ukraine, Zuzana Kepplová unpacks the last few years of Slovak politics and explains how Igor Matovič and his SMER party, who took over after 2018, have laid the groundwork for this far-right comeback. 

Written by Zuzana Kepplová.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/who-is-to-blame-for-robert-ficos-return/

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Green Wave is produced by the Green European Journal.

10 months on from the start of Italy's new far-right government under Prime Giorgia Meloni from the Brothers of Italy, this episode looks at climate politics in Italy. Direct action environmental protestors and Italy's tumultuous Green parties are not always on the same wavelength - what lies at the heart of this divide, and what can be done?

Written by Anna Toniolo and Simone Fontana.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/young-activism-old-politics-italys-divided-climate-movement/

This article is from our latest edition Up in Arms: Environmental Divides Reshaping Politics. Read it online here: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/edition/up-in-arms-environmental-divides-reshaping-politics/ 

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Welcome to the podcast and to another piece from our latest edition! The green transition relies on the use of numerous rare minerals. Lithium especially is crucial and Serbia’s reserves of this lightest of metals are coveted. But with a proposed mine catalysing the largest environmental protests in Serbian history, it is clear that local communities are asking, “Whose green transition”? 

Written by Predrag Momčilović.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/serbias-lithium-sacrifice-zones-or-opportunity-for-europes-peripheries/ 

This article is from our latest edition Up in Arms: Environmental Divides Reshaping Politics. Read it online here: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/edition/up-in-arms-environmental-divides-reshaping-politics/ 

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Our latest edition is out! And if you've been sweltering in a city this summer, don't miss this episode. Celia Fernández explains how rising temperatures are making European cities increasingly unliveable in the summer months and why where you live and what you earn affects how you experience this. Adaptation measures - increasingly needed - can take this into account. 

Up in Arms: Environmental Divides Reshaping Politics is out now and available here: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/edition/up-in-arms-environmental-divides-reshaping-politics/ 

Written by Celia Fernández.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-cities-feeling-the-heat/ 

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In Spain, the installation of large renewable energy plants is generating divides - with local populations concerned at the transformation of their homelands on the one hand and a climate that cannot wait on the other. Two new films - Alcarras and As Bestas - have brought these conflicts, which risk undermining the energy transition, to the big screen.

Written by Adriana Mayor.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/alcarras-and-as-bestas-spains-renewable-energy-divides-play-out-in-cinemas/ 

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With each report from the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), the message is more alarming and the call more strident. Yet somehow, the findings struggle to move governments to action. From ‘climategate’ to the need to cater to conflicting stakeholders, the IPCC may in fact reinforce the status quo - but it could change that by embracing its intrinsically political role.

Written by Kari De Pryck.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/why-the-ipcc-cant-escape-climate-politics/

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The idea of 'economic insecurity' is vital to understanding how people actually feel about their past, present and future. Put simply, it is the experience or anticipation of economic hardship. Hannah Webster and Toby Murray explore what they call the UK’s current insecurity crisis and the political decisions that led us here. They ask: what kind of policies make people feel secure in their lives and positive about their future? 

Written by Hannah Webster and Toby Murray.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/tackling-the-uks-insecurity-crisis/

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Russia’s war on Ukraine pushed the world into a food crisis - or that’s how it felt. But this was only the latest tipping point for a global food system already on the edge. Jennifer Kwao explains how the conflict in Ukraine affected people's access to food everywhere, and especially in the Global South, and why the problems go much deeper. 

Written by Jennifer Kwao.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-untold-story-of-the-food-crisis/

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On this International Women's Day, we turn to Africa, where women have a long, rich, and active history of seeing their own liberation and the protection of nature as inseparable and forging ground-breaking campaigns at their intersection. From FOWA in Nigeria and Wangari Maathai in Kenya to today's generation of activists, listen to Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide on the movements that the rest of the world can be learning from. 

Written by Anika Jane Dorothy and Lydia Ayame Hiraide.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/what-african-green-feminist-power-has-to-offer/ 

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That infinite economic growth is simply not possible on a finite planet seems a truth that is increasingly hard to escape - in some circles. Yet governments continue to organise their countries around the idea that economic growth is good, necessary, and important. Is degrowth the vision that can lay out another way forward - and one that is more just and green? Jorge Pinto on The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism (Verso, 2022) and its compelling case for why all environmentalists and left-wingers should get behind degrowth.

Written by Jorge Pinto.

Read by Julia Lagoutte.

Text version: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/is-degrowth-the-future/ 

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