Extinction Rebellion Radio

We can't tackle the climate emergency without some level of government regulation. Those regulations don't work unless they are enforced. But enforcement isn't happening, not very widely anyway. To understand how and why environmental protections are not being enforced in both the U.S. and the U.K., we talk with Eleanor Godwin, the researcher who compiled and published this informa

The Ukraine war is increasingly intersecting with climate. The U.S. has asked Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil so gasoline prices can stay low. It has also stopped enforcing restrictions on Russian oil exports. Meanwhile the $60 billion aid package is languishing amid Congressional gridlock (as of this recording on April 18, 2024), and we get into real talk about why that is and

Welcome to a consciously multi-generational conversation with Lawrence MacDonald, author of the book Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomers Guide to Climate Action. We discuss how to plug into climate activism, and which forms of climate activism to plug into. It's pitched to older folks, but people who aren't seniors can use a lot of this advice as well. So what's the short an

How do fossil fuel executives think? They know their business is responsible for mass murder, and they work hard to cover it up. They know exactly what they are doing. So what's going on up there? We offer some informed speculation, plus recent climate news.

For this episode, we explore why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldnt ignore silly arguments denying climate change.

People are always helping one another cope with troubles and shortages and disasters. When that assistance is organized as a collaborative exchange of help, it's sometimes called a "mutual aid society." As we increasingly get walloped by the climate crisis, we're going to need mutual aid societies more than ever before. For this episode, Jack Baldwin looks at one mutual aid society

What point in history would you live in if you could choose any time? Martin Luther King’s answer was right now, ‘This moment.’ Alycee gives the same answer. With one guest from Italy and another from the United States, we offer a touch of qualified optimism after last week’s devastating episode.

Let's look back at the climate disasters of the last six months or so of 2023. There were many, and most of them were never covered in the U.S. mass media. Running through these disasters rapid fire will hopefully show how dire the climate crisis is--not years from now, not for the next century, not for our grandkids, but for us. Right now.

As recently as 2021, climate activists in the U.S. and U.K. received very lenient treatment from police and judges, even when they did civil disobedience. Why? Probably because visible climate activists are mostly white. But it also seemed like authorities in the global north just didn't want to crack down on this cause. Well, things have changed, and they've changed because climat

The war on Palestine is both a humanitarian disaster and a climate disaster. Every shell, every tank, every rocket burns emissions. And the humanitarian scale is beyond easy comprehension. Our entry point into this topic is Alycee's trajectory as a climate activist and writer, and how she got particularly interested in militarism as a neglected dimension of global heating. (We took