Posts Tagged ‘climate change denial’

Episode 276: Is the Environmental Movement Promoting the Most Effective Individual Actions for the Climate?

Posted: January 25, 2022 in Uncategorized
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Image based on page 4 of the Wynes and Nicholas article linked to below.

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Nick is joined by Adam Cardilini to discuss the movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and compare individual actions for the climate commonly promoted in the environmental movement with scientific research on the most effective actions. We do this by discussing the actions promoted on the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the following scientific article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9.

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Animal liberation by Los Fastidios, Clip from Don’t Look Up (Netflix), Union speaker Luke on just transitions for fossil fuel workers – from the Climate Crisis National Day of Action event in Melbourne, The Voracious March of Godliness by Bad Religion, Work-Rest-Play-Die (live) by Subhumans.

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Episode 233: Hooked on Growth – Barriers to Meaningful Action on Climate Change

Posted: October 4, 2019 in Uncategorized
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We discuss the Global Climate Strike and economic growth as a barrier to meaningful action on climate change.

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  • For more on the environmental problems with economic growth, you can listen to a very recent discussion Nick did on Freedom of Species with Meghan Street from Green Left Radio, which covered this topic, the Melbourne Climate Strike, plus a critical examination of environmental vegan activism: MEGHAN STREET – CONNECTING ANIMAL ACTIVISM WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS.

Book Recommendation:

Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford.

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Clips:

Sole ‘Flood’, Austin Powers ‘Sharks with Lasers’, Akala ‘Fire in the Booth – part 1’, Kesha ‘Rich, White, Straight Men’.

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Episode 136: Addressing the Climate Emergency by Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

Posted: June 24, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Politicians-discussing-global-warming.-Sculpture-by-Issac-Cordal.

Politicians discussing climate change. Sculpture by Issac Cordal.

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Nick is joined by town planner and environmental activist Mark Allen. We discuss two forms of climate change denial – both denying climate change is happening and/or is caused by human activity but also denying the action and changes that are required to seriously address the climate emergency. To discuss this, we draw on the article ‘Climate Change: Almost Half Of Australia Is Still Ignorant Or Confused, New Poll Reveals’ by Thom Mitchell and the documentary This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis.

We discuss government “action” on the Great Barrier Reef, the problems with “green” capitalism, statistics on the impact of the carbon tax (we also covered the carbon tax on episodes 5 and 63), climate activism and hope, preferential voting in Australia and voting for the environment in the upcoming election.

Plugs for Mark: City Limits on 3CR, Population, Planning and Permaculture Facebook group and Mark’s article on the Brexit.

If you are interested in hearing more on the issues discussed on this episode, check out our recording of the Left Q/A – Election 2016 event, featuring speakers from Save the Planet, the Socialist Alliance and the Greens – part 1, part 2. We also discuss this event and play some highlights from it on episode 138.

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Clips:

Men With Day Jobs ‘Denial Tango’, The Feed SBS ‘Good Grief, the Bloody Reef!’, PJ Harvey ‘Let England shake’.

You can listen to a short (7 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of Nick and Mark’s discussion on voting for the environment in the upcoming election, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.