Downstream – Novara Media Podcasts

Oct 28 2024 148 ep. 68 mins 140
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Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues - from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change - that are set to define the 21st century.

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Downstream: How War, Trade and Farming Changed the Planet Forever w/ Sunil Amrith

Oct 28 2024 61 mins  
What if instead of talking about history from the perspective of humanity, we told it from the perspective of the resources that made human expansion possible? Sunil Amrith is a historian and author of The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of The Last 500 Years. He sat down with Ash to explain how a bumper […]

Downstream: Insects Are Disappearing and We Should Be Very Worried w/ Dave Goulson

Oct 22 2024 110 mins  
From pollinating crops to managing organic waste on a continental scale, insects are vital to life on Earth. They are also disappearing. Dave Goulson is an entomologist and ecologist whose books communicate the majesty of insects and arthropods – along with a grave warning about their demise. He talks to Aaron to Bastani talk about the […]

Downstream: Do We Really Need to Tax the Rich? w/ Stephanie Kelton

Oct 13 2024 59 mins  
Stephanie Kelton is an author and economist, and subject of the new film ‘Finding The Money’. Her work as a proponent of Modern Monetary Theory and as an advisor to Bernie Sanders has put her front and center of the debate around government debt, taxation and the potential green industrial revolution. She sat down for […]

Downstream: Everything You Need to Know About China & Xi Jinping w/ Olivia Cheung

Oct 09 2024 88 mins  
Xi Jinping is possibly the most powerful person in the world, but what do we know about his origins, ways of thinking and goals for China and the human race in general? To answer these questions and more, Aaron is joined by Olivia Cheung, author of “The Political Thought of Xi Jinping”. They discuss his […]

Downstream: India Was the Epicentre of the Ancient World w/ William Dalrymple

Oct 01 2024 52 mins  
The Silk Road has dominated the way we imagine the trading relationship between Europe and Asia to have worked in antiquity. In his new book, The Golden Road, William Dalrymple busts that myth. He sat down with Ash to talk about the origins of algebra, Indian gems in Anglo-Saxon Britain and why Genghis Khan was […]

Downstream: The UK’s Landowning Elite Are Destroying the Countryside w/ Guy Shrubsole

Sep 23 2024 104 mins  
Guy Shrubsole is an author and campaigner whose new book The Lie of the Land seeks to expose the history of the British elite’s relationship to the land they own and debunk the myths that they perpetuate. He sat down with Aaron to talk about grouse moors, planning permission and exactly what we should do about […]

Downstream: This Is the Reality for Palestinian Christians w/ Dr. Munther Isaac

Sep 16 2024 58 mins  
Dr. Munther Isaac is the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, serving a community of Christians that dates back to the time of Jesus. He joins Ash to discuss Israel’s continuing annexation of the West Bank, the role of Christian Zionists, and the origins of western hypocrisy.

Downstream: We Have Enabled Putin w/ Anne Appelbaum

Sep 10 2024 59 mins  
Political scientists agree that we are now living in a “multipolar” world, with power contested by multiple states and blocs. But how we arrived at this formation, and whether the newly powerful actors on the global stage are inherently problematic, remain areas of disagreement. Someone with has a distinct perspective on this new world order […]

Downstream: Is Humanity Really Heading for Population Collapse?! w/ Paul Morland

Aug 20 2024 112 mins  
During 1960s, fears of planetary ‘overpopulation’ became widespread. And yet, in more recent years, an altogether different worry has emerged: future population decline. Fertility rates have fallen for decades – and in some places centuries – as humans live in cities, gender equality improves and access to birth control becomes widespread. But, according to some, […]

Downstream: Can The Green Party Keep Winning? w/ Carla Denyer

Aug 05 2024 71 mins  
The Green Party of England and Wales now has four MPs in Parliament, and even more impressively has doubled its vote share to 7%, coming second in 39 other seats. So what happens now? How will the Greens exercise their new agency in government, and how can they navigate a biased media landscape and increase […]