In today’s episode, Cody, Julia, and Clayton discuss the outcomes, manipulations, failures, and long-term impacts of COP27 and COP15, along with a multitude of topics surrounding the issue of climate change and environmentalism . They bring in the philosophy of French theorist Bruno Latour and others he has inspired, dissect that moment of dissent from the Democratic Republic of Congo at COP15, talk about the struggles of Indigenous activists under the Biden administration, and dig into how current approaches to climate change center humans and downplay the vitality of nature and our more-than-human kin.

Works referenced:

Bathsheba Demuth. 2019. Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/cop15-summit-drc-drops-objections-to-seal-deal-on-historic-action-on-biodiversity-aoe

David Graeber quote on how to create new organizing structures: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii13/articles/david-graeber-the-new-anarchists

Great Memorial about Bruno Latour from The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bruno-latour-obituary-science/

Half-earth project from the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation https://www.half-earthproject.org/

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/lack-funding-focus-congo-hosts-pre-cop27-climate-talks-2022-10-03/

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Moeller, Hans-Georg. 2012. The Radical Luhmann. Columbia University Press.

Nordensvard, Johan & Markus Ketola. “Populism as an act of storytelling: analyzing the climate change narratives of Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg as populist truthtellers.”, Environmental Politics, 31:5, 861-882, 2022. DOI: 10.1080/09644016.2021.1996818