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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.
Episodes
169 episodes
Bhopal: Stories of an Ecocide. Episode 2: Green Revolution
Support the Bhopal Medical Appeal https://www.bhopal.org/Episode two: The Green Revolution explores the historical, political and economic forces that came together to make the Bhopal Gas Disaster a catastrophe just waiting to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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29:19
Bhopal: Stories of an Ecocide. Episode 1: Tank 610
Support the Bhopal Medical Appeal https://www.bhopal.org/Forty years ago on the night of December 2nd 1984 water entered the chemical storage tank 610 at the Union Carbide India plant in Bhopal causing an exothermic rea...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:24
Bhopal: Stories of an Ecocide coming December 2nd
First episode December 2nd Forty years ago, on the night of December 2nd 1984, water entered the chemical storage tank 610 at the Union Carbide India plant in Bhopal, causing an exothermic reaction that released a deadly cloud of...
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Combating Climate Change Deniers
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 networ...
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Will Labour's GB Energy deliver the just transition?
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 chang...
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Nuclear Power to Save the Planet? (Part Two) with Mark Nelson
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-med...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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Nuclear Power to save the Planet? (Part One) with M.V. Ramana
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 bounti...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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1:08:25
The migration crisis and the climate crisis both need our humanity. With Zoe Gardner
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, you...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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How can we separate biodiversity from colonialism ? with Chris Armstrong
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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1:08:59
Election special: which Manifesto is best for the planet?
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 of...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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45:58
On Extinction and Denial: How humanity is coping with the climate crisis.
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 assis...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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"The Working Class Always have to Save Themselves" Working Class Climate Alliance.
Shout outsClass work project https://www.theclassworkproject.com/Trade mark belfastfeminize Politics NowReclaim Acorn tenants union
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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58:58
Climate Researcher Fired for Not Flying! Dr. Gianluca Grimaldi
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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49:34
Organsing in Coal Mines and Car Plants for climate, with Nicole González
This week on the show we are joined by Nicole Kleinheisterkamp-González a PHD candidate at Syracuse University in New York state. Nicole's research is to bring the analysis of Labour and union organising into geography. Her field wo...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:09:49
Kohei Saito on degrowth communism.
We've spoken to alot of degrowthers on this show, all coming from slightly different angles on the problems facing the planet. This week we are heading to Japan, to hear from one of the most prominent thinkers on Marx, to see how marxism and de...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:04:59
Why are cars getting so much bigger? Finance, Loans and Debt with Dr Tom Haines-Doran
50% of all new cars are SUV's, which may come as a surprise to you, considering the various noises around the world about moves to green transport. Is this just people with more disposable income wanting bigger cars, is it for the prestige? Or ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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58:22
XR founder Roger Hallam on revolution and climate movement strategy
When people think about environmentalists, the next words they probably say are, "Oh, like Extinction Rebellion?" The impact of XR on the the climate movement probably can't be over stated. From ubiquitous association to the effects on organisi...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:00:50
Zack Polanski - Deputy Leader of the Green Party
Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/gndmediaukTwitter: @gndmediaukInstagram: gndmediauk This week on the show we are joined by the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski. We dis...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:09:10
Green energy has never been cheaper, so why aren't we transitioning faster? With Brett Christophers
If there is any one word that is synonymous with tackling climate change it is “electrification”. Yes, getting off fossil fuels and taking the majority of CO2 out of our economy are the goals of many working on the climate, but if there was one...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:01:30
"The Rich Need to Pay for Climate Action" Kevin Anderson on climate change and inequality
It's our yearly stock take, where are we now in the fight to save the planet, and what do we need to do, to make progress faster? Friend of the show Professor Kevin Anderson joins us to cut through the crap and get the heart of the matter...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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55:54
NASA scientist Peter Kalmus on how we can beat climate change in five years.
You would be very hard pressed to say 2023 was not an awful year for natural disasters and climate related tragedy. Wildfires in Canada and the US, extreme flooding in Bulgaria and Bangladesh, and record breaking heatwaves in Northern Afr...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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57:03
The Mineral Politics of the Just transitions with Thea Riofrancos
To say the modern world is dependent on materials we dig out of the ground is an understatement. From the lithium in your phone battery to the cup you're drinking your tea in, mining and mineral extraction play a vital part of how survive on ea...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:06:41
2023 Xmas Special "I was a very reactionary child"
2023 is over and the battle for 2024 is about to begin. It's the end of the year so gather round the wireless to hear Ads, Alex, Lucy and Andrew discuss where we are at a end of 2023 and guess which of us had some very strong one n...
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"I'm an advocate for Gentle Anarchy" Supporting Bees and Insects in Ireland.
The worlds biggest climate negotiations are happening as you read this, in Dubai at COP28. The President of COP has just said "There is no scientific basis for climate change"...... I think its time to take a breather, go outside and ha...
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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1:08:46
How Green Colonialism Damages the Arab Region
The world’s attention right now is focused on the desperate situation in Gaza. This human catastrophe has major ramifications for the wider Arab region encompassing North Africa and the Gulf States, an area that is also at the heart of fossil c...
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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1:06:46