GND Media

Nov 03 2024 166 ep. 55 mins 112

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Taking a deep dive into climate breakdown. With interviews from activists, scientists, politicians on how we can push for a green and just world. Looking at the latest developments in Manchester's and the North's climate movement.

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Combating Climate Change Deniers

Nov 03 2024 73 mins

You may have noticed that all your favourite online spaces are rife with climate denial, skepticism and down right lies about how humans are effecting the globe. What is driving this change?Are these people working as individuals, in networks or backed by the oil and gas industry itself? This week we here from some who's trying to fight back against the tide of disinformation and c

Will Labour's GB Energy deliver the just transition?

Oct 06 2024 60 mins

Support the show https://www.patreon.com/gndmediaukLabour's flagship policy of its election campaign was GB Energy. A phrase that would have pricked the ears of anyone who cared about getting off fossil fuels and combating climate change. With the government keeping its cards close to its chest we put together a crack team of guests who can breakdown what GB Energy could be and how

Nuclear Power to Save the Planet? (Part Two) with Mark Nelson

Sep 15 2024 81 mins

This week is our part two in our mini series on Nuclear Energy. You can listen to part one of this series with M.V Ramana here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gnd-media/id1501980017Ad's is joined by Mark Nelson (@Energy Bants) founder and managing director of Radiant Energy Group, a organisation that supports low carbon energy transition and keeping nuclear power plants open

Nuclear Power to save the Planet? (Part One) with M.V. Ramana

Sep 01 2024 68 mins

For the next two episodes Ads is exploring one of the most debated and decisive topics when it comes to climate breakdown. Nuclear power. In recent years many have seen nuclear power as a keystone technology that can help produce bountiful clean energy to get humanity off fossil fuels. For others, when nuclear power is mentioned the images of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the threat of

The migration crisis and the climate crisis both need our humanity. With Zoe Gardner

Jul 28 2024 62 mins

Humans have always moved. long before we started planting grains in the fertile crescent, we moved around the globe in search of food, shelter and other humans for trade and collaboration. If you're moving now without dollar in your pocket, your demonized, shunned and your humanity questioned, just for trying to find a better life. The climate crisis is going to have millions on th

How can we separate biodiversity from colonialism ? with Chris Armstrong

Jul 14 2024 68 mins

The Climate Movements key focus is on the reduction of emissions and stopping humanity from going over the edge into full blown climate breakdown. But by focusing so heavily on the parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere are we missing ways in which the natural world shapes our existence? Are we being negligent to the lives of other species that make up life on earth, and what a

Election special: which Manifesto is best for the planet?

Jun 30 2024 45 mins

The election is in full swing in the UK, with 3 days to go until the polls open. Are the parties rising to the occasion and providing a vision of a world not decimated by the climate crisis? We put in the hard hours to read the manifestos on offer so you don't have to!In this endeavor of analysis or political parities commitments we are joined by comrade of the pod Sam Knights! We

On Extinction and Denial: How humanity is coping with the climate crisis.

Jun 16 2024 50 mins

This week we are starting at the End. This week on the show myself and lucy are joined by Tad Delay and Ben ware. Tad the author of Future of Denial:The Ideologies of Climate Change. He’s also an assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baltimore City Community College. Ben Ware author of On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End. Ben is the Co-director of the centre for Philosophy a

"The Working Class Always have to Save Themselves" Working Class Climate Alliance.

Jun 03 2024 58 mins

Shout outsClass work project https://www.theclassworkproject.com/Trade mark belfastfeminize Politics NowReclaim Acorn tenants union Support the show

Climate Researcher Fired for Not Flying! Dr. Gianluca Grimaldi

May 19 2024 49 mins

When our ethics clash with our work, who wins? and Who should win? Should we adhere to the orders of our mangers, even if we think its bad for the planet? This week on the show Ads and Andrew are joined by Dr. Gianluca Grimaldi, a climate researcher. Gianluca tells his story of being fired from his job as a climate scientist for refusing to fly for work-related travel. He discusses