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S5 E11: Change Everything

  • December 15, 2021
Season 5 art by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Merriam-Webster online Dictionary, image editing by Mara Guevarra.

In our Season 5 finale: What’s the cultural transformation we need to make—in the West, and the U.S. in particular—to live in good health with the rest of the natural world and with each other?…

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S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source

  • December 8, 2021

The first of two concluding episodes in Season 5, in which we focus on solutions. In Part 10 of The Repair, we look at the actions and policies that people need to push for —now…

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S5 E9: Pachamama

  • December 1, 2021

In several countries around the world, including Ecuador, New Zealand, and the U.S., some people are trying to protect the planet using a legal concept called “rights of nature”—infusing the law with Indigenous understandings of…

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S5 E8: Last Orders

  • November 24, 2021
Episode image: In the Cromarty Firth at the edge of Nigg, Scotland, retired oil rigs, left, and, to the right, wind turbine supports, or “jackets,” waiting to be towed out to sea. Photo by Victoria MacArthur. Image editing by Mara Guevarra.

Among the wealthy, industrialized Western countries that created the climate crisis, Scotland is one of the leaders in pivoting away from fossil fuels—or promising to. Just how quickly will Scots be willing to cut off…

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S5 E7: Deluges and Dreams

  • November 17, 2021

The climate crisis is not new to Bangladesh. For decades, global warming has exacerbated storms and flooding and turned many thousands of people into refugees in their own country. Yet, even though Bangladeshis did almost…

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S5 E6: “We Don’t Have the Power to Fight It”

  • November 2, 2021

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence—for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate…

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Bonus: Manchin on the Hill, and Introducing Drilled

  • October 20, 2021
Text: Scene On Radio. Bonus Episode. Drilled: The Madmen of Climate Denial. Image: A minimalist vector image of a suit and tie.

Co-hosts John Biewen and Amy Westervelt discuss the U.S. Congress’s effort to pass its first major climate bill ever, and Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) move to block the bill, seemingly on behalf of the fossil…

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S5 E5: Jakarta, the Sinking Capital

  • October 13, 2021
Episode image: People on top of the Giant Sea Wall, North Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2021. Kevin Herbian/Shutterstock.

Southeast Asia is especially vulnerable to storms, rising oceans, and other climate effects—though countries in the region did very little to create the crisis. How does the climate emergency look and feel in Indonesia, and…

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S5 E4: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

  • October 6, 2021
Episode image: E. Bruce Harrison in Indonesia, 1970, working for the American mining company Freeport McMoRan. Duplicate Harrisons lined up against jungle background. Photo courtesy of his daughter, Susan Harrison. Image editing by Mara Guevarra.

Why has the United States played such an outsized role in the creation of the climate crisis? As a settler nation, the U.S. emerged from the colonizing, capitalist West, but what did America and its…

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S5 E3: “Managing” Nature

  • September 29, 2021
Season 5 art and image editing by Mara Guevarra. Episode image: Photo of a painting of Gifford Pinchot by artist Stan Galli, 1955, with image editing by Mara Guevarra. The painting was commissioned by the Weyerhauser Timber Company for an ad campaign promoting “productive” forest management. Image courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.

If the Enlightenment was so great, why was it not a course correction? Did newer cultural values that took hold in the West in this period speed up our race toward ecological suicide? Part 3…

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2x Peabody-nom’d podcast of @CDSDuke. S5: "The Repair," on climate crisis. How did we go so wrong, and who's 'we'? Co-hosted by John Biewen and @amywestervelt.

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ClimateBenBen See@ClimateBen·
26 May

An extraordinary news story ignored by corporate media: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now explicitly calls for actions such as moving away from a conception of economic progress based solely on GDP growth to try to slow today's accelerating 6th mass extinction. 🧵

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How can this be. Seriously.

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle

Profiles in courage. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/27/us/texas-school-shooting?smid=url-share#e6d6563f-cb01-567f-b0e6-cb357b573cf0

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I don’t know if my Mic is on: BUT i want to organize a strike. We are being killed. We are exhausted. We can’t afford to live. We feel broken & OUR POLITICIANS don’t care. Is anyone with me? I have a radio show & an institute & a OpEd column - I got platforms I just NEED help

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1/ Re the 2nd Amendment. I still remember a newspaper cartoon from the 1970s -- because my mother cut it out and stuck it to the fridge. Shows a Ben Franklin-looking dude saying something like this to another "Founding Father" type:

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aletweetsnewsAlejandro Alvarez@aletweetsnews·
26 May

Falls Church, Virginia's Meridian High School, where students held a die-in protest against gun violence in the middle of their athletic field. Reminds me of the walkouts that preceded the (first) March for Our Lives. That was four years ago. Video: WJLA.

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