James Barber is a member of Oil Free Wellington, an activist group trying to prevent oil exploration in New Zealand. Naomi Klein has pointed out in her book ‘This Changes Everything’ that humans can’t afford to burn the fuels already discovered. In the 80s we had nuclear arms proliferation, where Soviets and Americans together posessed enough destructive force to destroy us multiple times – the same is now true of fossil fuel reserves. And yet the exploration continues.

James joined me for a talk and to tell everyone about the rally for climate justice in Wellington during March the 26th and 27th. This will form a blockade at the oil and gas industry’s annual business conference.

This episode was a lesson for me on the principles and duties of civil disobedience – a tradition going back to H D Thoreau and beyond. The more we talk about New Zealand’s nuclear free moment the closer, it seems, we’ll come back to this point.

I’m at the Pacific Climate Conference here in Wellington this week, meeting and talking to lots of people involved in the problem. I’m not sure who I’ll be talking to next episode, but it will likely be someone I meet this week.

http://oilfreewellington.org.nz/rally-for-climate-justice-blockade-the-oil-summit/

http://www.rallyforclimatejustice.nz

02:15 Origins and Goals – Climate Justice and systemic problems

04:00 Oil Summit

10:50 Genesis of Oil Free Wellington

12:20 Activism events from the past

18:20 Statoil Chevron complete surveyr

20:14 People’s flotilla, the Anadarko amendment and laws tested by Russell Norman and Greenpeace. More drilling expected this year

22:20 Questions about personal risks

24:20 Lengthy court processes

25:30 Uncharted territories and the CO2 graph

27:25 Farmers and coastal property owners now getting warning signs

28:30 Economic pressures on a farming operation, Industrial dairying and capital investment

30:14 350’s divestment strategies and revolutions in energy, food and transport

31:45 The industrial processes to create milk

35:25 Industrial processes that use livestock

36:00 Monocultures and 8 billion people

37:40 How do keep the world we have without adding to climate change

38:15 Returning to life in the 70s

41:50 Being more positive – making the world a better place. Working with unions.

45:10 Chosing the see the world as a resource

46:10 Indigenous peoples and consuming the world

49:00 Food deserts and enforced options of capitalism

52:20 Locallised services

54:10 Razor blades in trucks passing on the road

55:22 Counting cars in space

58:20 Sci fi and the absurd, bitcoin

1:04:00 Global networks of capitalism

1:05:00 Parenthood, life during a crisis and finding a tribe

1:06:00 Nauru and Holloway Road.

1:10:20 Tribes of climate activism – Paradise built in Hell

1:13:40 Sci fi ad

1:16:00 Blockadia and disparate communities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Changes_Everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

http://www.perfectdayfoods.com

https://grist.org/article/bitcoin-could-cost-us-our-clean-energy-future/