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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How Western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, starting in the Middle Ages. Part 2 of The Repair, our series on the climate crisis. By host and…
The climate emergency is here. In the first four episodes of our series, we explore the questions: How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so…
This season will explore the cultural roots of our current ecological emergency, and the deep changes Western society will need to make to save the Earth and our species. Through interviews with historians and other…
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COVID mutations and climate breakdown both indicate the need to rapidly end the Global North / Global South inequity. Time to realize we actually are all in this together, and act like it.
A piece altogether too kind ... but so thoughtful and good on how our show developed and evolved. Huge thanks @huler @catchatweetdown @amywestervelt @timothybtyson @hogan1_wesley
A really good listen | Duke: https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/really-good-listen
Another excellent one from Falling Tree and Alan Hall. Learned stuff about Beauvoir, including that she wrote a late book on the experience of elderly people and society's treatment of them -- not to mention her blind spots (esp. intersectionality):
...and producer Alan Hall's portrait of the philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir through her archive and the words of those who knew her or know her work. Alan's pictured here in 1990 on a pilgrimage to her graveside... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011m4h
In case you missed it in the holiday goings and comings....
In the feed, The Repair Ep 8.
Scotland is a relative leader among historical emitters in pivoting away from fossil fuels, or promising to. How quickly will Scots give up the flow of oil and money? Reporting by @vicmcarthur with @0212crd and @amywestervelt, thanks @IWMF @prx
