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Episode 290: Who Sold Out Now? Cars, Veganism and Disability

Posted: March 12, 2023 in Uncategorized
Tags: ableism, car-free, chronic fatigue, climate action, disability, environmental veganism, individual solutions, Lottie, structural solutions, sustainable transport, Veganism

Screenshot from Duolingo, translation from French to English is: I like walking; I don't take the car. — Screenshot from Duolingo.

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We discuss no longer being car-free but still believing cars are the number one enemy, individual and structural actions for sustainable transport and food systems, and visible versus invisible disabilities. In discussing how effective different actions are in tackling climate change, we refer to the article The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions by Seth Wynes and Kimberly Nicholas.

Graph showing low, moderate and high impact actions for the climate. — This image is from the Wynes and Nicholas article linked to above.

We also do some taste testing of vegan products from the Vegan Grocery Store, featuring: Future Farm Plant-Based Tuna, Chuckie Creme Egg and Hands Off My Chocolate Bites – Candy Choc Crispy. This vegan tasting segment is NOT a paid advertisement or sponsored segment or anything like that, it’s just something we felt like doing!

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Music:

Who Sold Out Now? by Ignite.

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

Posted: January 25, 2022 in Uncategorized
Tags: Adam Cardilini, bullshit jobs, climate action, climate change, climate change denial, Don't Look Up, Donald Trump, environmental veganism, Finds from the street, individual solutions, just transition, pop culture, science, working class

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.

This show is replayed from Nick’s other show Freedom of Species on 3CR Community Radio. You can subscribe to this show on a bunch of apps including iTunes and Spotify.

Additional links:

This show is a continuation of our last episode Episode 275: Don’t Look Up…Actually You Probably Should! Re-Engaging with the Climate Crisis.
Adam recommends the website https://drawdown.org/ over count-us-in.org for websites measuring the impact of different individual actions of the climate.
Nick recommends the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber – available as a print book and audio book.
‘Don’t Look Up Doesn’t Get the Climate Crisis’ (article by Eric Levitz on nymag.com).

Some more #FindsFromTheStreet – we've managed to get some good stuff given away by neighbours including outdoor storage (dog not included 😜), a doggie door draft stopper, glasses and an unused note pad. Good way to reduce environmental impact and save $$$ pic.twitter.com/v1yDJsWVEu
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) January 25, 2022

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Music and other clips:

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
Tags: Aspergers, capitalism, Clementine Ford, climate action, climate change, climate change denial, climate strike, environmental veganism, Greta Thunberg, growth, Hasan Minhaj, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Justin Trudeau, Labor party, Naomi Klein, science

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We discuss the Global Climate Strike and economic growth as a barrier to meaningful action on climate change.

Links:

Naomi Klein on Democracy Now (17 September 2019 show).

IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees Celcius: Summary for Policymakers, Guardian article on the report.

https://twitter.com/SebKonyn/status/1175893609813381120

Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ‘The Two Sides of Canada’.

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.

Our latest show is up! Featuring activist Meghan Street, host of @greenleftweekly Radio on @3CR, who discusses the recent Global #ClimateStrike marches and how #vegan activists can better connect with environmental and Left movements. https://t.co/28j73dYUBk
— Freedom of Species (@FOSradio) October 2, 2019

Upcoming conferences in Melbourne: Animal Activists Forum and Liberated Futures.

I'm looking forward to speaking at the Animal Activists Forum! I'll be drawing on sociological concepts to look into the question of who is to blame for harm to animals? Plus giving suggestions for animal advocacy. Forum is 19-20 October in #Melbourne, more info: @ActivistsForum pic.twitter.com/vJuIYfMtPP
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) August 26, 2019

Book Recommendation:

Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford.

We're co-running a conference later this year in Melbourne bringing together activists and academics to work for a better future for all animals (human and non-human). Make sure you click on 'Going' for updates and please spread the word! #LiberatedFutures https://t.co/fQncPqFisw
— ICAS Oceania (@icasoceania) September 12, 2019

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Clips:

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

🤮 pic.twitter.com/pBdQl9FdBw
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) October 3, 2019

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Episode 229: From Wailing to Action for the Climate

Posted: May 26, 2019 in Uncategorized
Tags: 2019 federal election, activist tactics, Australian politics, climate action, climate change, climate emergency, disability, environmental veganism, Extinction Rebellion, Violet

Image from the Climate Emergency XR Snap Rally in Melbourne that we discuss on this episode. Pic from: https://www.facebook.com/XRVictoria/

We commiserate about the election result and bring you speeches and music from the Climate Emergency XR Snap Rally in Melbourne. We play a speech from Violet (pictured in the small Mixcloud pic above) and music from Steven and Mark. You can listen to our full recording of the event here. You can get active with Extinction Rebellion, The Global General Strike to Save the Planet and The City Roars, an upcoming rally for climate action in Melbourne.

Good to see the Simpsons references still going strong!

We also discuss animal agriculture, veganism and the climate emergency. For more on this you can hear our 172^nd episode and ‘Achieving Environmental Liberation Through Animal Liberation’ on Freedom of Species.

Good to see a bunch of people highlighting the environmental impact of animal agriculture at the #ExtinctionRebellion march #vegan pic.twitter.com/ntTeztC1bd
— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) May 24, 2019

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Clips:

The Simpson’s in Australia ‘It’s an emergency’, Steven and Mark from the Climate Emergency XR Snap Rally in Melbourne ‘Stand Up, Fight Back’, Peep Show ‘Jez Forgets The Turkey’, Violet’s speech from the rally, Steven and Mark from the rally ‘What you gonna do?’, Steven and Mark from the rally ‘Never Doubt’.

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