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In today's episode we talk with activist Sinan from the organization Climaximo about organizing during and against accelerating climate change. We start the conversation by describing some of the principle that our political work is based upon, in particular that the real risk of climate collapse is underrepresented and that the capitalist class will always resist any meaningful structural change. Then we talk about Climaximo, their mode of organizing and plans for the future. Sinan explains to us how they operate under the assumption of a state of climate emergency and their effort to frame climate change as a war waged by the capitalist class against the rest of the world. We finish with some book recommendations and a call to get organized. ===== Re(Sources): Climaximo web: https://www.climaximo.pt/ fb: /climaximopt ig: @climaximopt Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Simon & Schuster (2014) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21913812-this-changes-everything Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of The Poor, Harvard University Press (2010). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10429440-slow-violence-and-the-environmentalism-of-the-poor Bill McGuire, Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide, Icon Books (2022). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61336424-hothouse-earth Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On The Danger of Fossil Fascism, Verso (2021). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56708410-white-skin-black-fuel Artwork by Alis Balogh Music: Capitalism is Toxic song: https://youtu.be/cMPt6AA6NOY

Rachel and Simon speak with the non-fiction author Naomi Klein. Her debut book, "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies", sold more than 1m copies after its publication in 1999; her follow-up, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" (2007), also reached the top of the New York Times bestseller charts. She has written extensively about the climate, including in books such as "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" and "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal", and is the founding co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her latest book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World", won the inaugural Women's Prize for non-fiction. We spoke to Naomi about the huge success of "No Logo", the line between journalism and activism, and "Doppelganger". “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World's Greatest Writers” - a book drawing on our podcast interviews - is published by Ithaka Press. You can order it via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bookshop.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Hatchards⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Waterstones⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You can find us online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠alwaystakenotes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/alwaystakenotes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Dans cet épisode tout aussi captivant, nous plongeons au cœur des enjeux de l'écologie et du développement durable à travers le regard de deux jeunes femmes. Partant d'une première rencontre souvent marquée par le rejet, nos invitées partagent leur parcours vers une prise de conscience et une acceptation de l'écologie dans leur vie quotidienne. Découvrez comment elles ont développé un intérêt profond pour cette thématique cruciale et comment elles envisagent l'avenir en termes de durabilité et de préservation de l'environnement tout l'inscrivant dans les spécificités des communautés africaines et afrodescendantes. Pour répondre à ces questions, Ruth a échangé avec Woury et Mélissa. ================================= Les lectures pour préparer cet épisode : Naomi Klein (Canada), (2014), "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate". Wangari Maathai (Kenya), (2006), "Unbowed". Vandana Shiva (Inde), (2005), "Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace". Les lectures de nos invités : Les courtiers du capitalisme, Sylvain Laurens Tropiques toxiques, Jessica Oublié Pour une écologie décoloniale, Malcom Ferdinand ================================= Le Maquis est un podcast de l'Amicale des étudiants caribéens, africains et sympathisants, plus connue sous le nom d'AMECAS : Ruth Nkidiaka a co-écrit et présenté cet épisode. L'équipe du podcast a aidé au montage de cet épisode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/amecas/message

This week, Adam is joined by Naomi Klein, whose new book, Doppelganger is somehow both the most personal and the most all-encompassing of her works to date. Beginning with the highly destabilising, but very intimate experience of repeatedly being mistaken for someone else—someone whose beliefs are, in most respects, fundamentally different to Klein's—it expands into a penetrating analysis of the “Mirror World”—that place populated with rightwing agitators, conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, and wellness influencers which, if you squint just the right amount, can end up looking not too dissimilar to your everyday reality.Buy Doppelganger here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/doppelganger-2*Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of nine critically acclaimed books: How To Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Earth and Each Other (2021), On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019), No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). In 2018, she published The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (2018) reprinted from her feature article for The Intercept with all royalties donated to Puerto Rican organisation juntegente.org. Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, journalist and activist Naomi Klein joins Dave and Josh as a special guest to look under the hood of several PragerU “educational” videos that offer a conservative spin on the topics of climate science and green technologies. Klein, who has authored several influential books (including This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate), points out how the fossil fuel-funded groups behind videos like these have shifted tactics in the years since COVID, moving from a strategy of “hard denialism” to one that centers on the rhetoric of “personal freedoms.”Here are the PragerU videos discussed with Naomi Klein this week:Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say? (2016)What's the Deal with the Green New Deal? (2019)Dave and Josh also have a lengthy discussion about the recent Vanity Fair exposé detailing the culture of fear that surrounded the actors and TV writers on the landmark mystery series Lost. The article sheds light on many of the same toxic Hollywood workplace issues being raised in the current Writers Guild of America strike. (Here's TV writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach's follow-up statement responding to the article.) If you'd like to support this show, head over to www.levernews.com/audit/ and leave a tip for Dave and Josh. To get access to Lever Premium Podcasts, and all the other benefits of a paid subscription, click here. A transcript of this episode is available here.

What climate books do you want for Christmas?  Listen in to find out where to start on picking out those stocking fillers. In this special episode, Jo reunites with William McDonnell to discuss their top picks of climate books across all genres, from climate science to politics and economics, covering fiction and non-fiction. Although its light-hearted, there's a deadly serious point: given the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to educate ourselves on the nature of the problem and the solutions at hand. Books offer a wonderful opportunity to learn much more about the challenges we face to build up a holistic view of risks that we value so much at GARP. With so many excellent books out there, we hope this episode offers a guide, whether it's for expanding your own library of climate-related books or simply finding the perfect gift. And remember – as they say about dogs – a book is for life, not just for Christmas. If you enjoyed this episode and would like to give us feedback, please let us know at climateriskpodcast@garp.com. Books mentioned in today's discussion (in broad categories) Understanding the problem Six Degrees: Our Future on A Hotter Planet – Mark Lynas The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit? – Mike Berners-Lees and Duncan Clark There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Mike Berners-Lees The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene – Simon L. Lewis and Mark Maslin Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors – Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – Walter Scheidel How did we get here? Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change – Nathaniel Rich Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity – James Hanson Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes The New Climate War: The fight to take back our planet – Michael E. Mann Climate economics Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist – Kate Raworth Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet – Tim Jackson Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change – Dieter Helm Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being – Joseph Stiglitz Risk psychology Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Ignore Climate Change – George Marshall Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman Climate and nature fiction Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson Green Earth – Kim Stanley Robinson The Overstory – Richard Powers Communicating climate change Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World – Katherine Hayhoe The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World – Jeff Goodell Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change? – Matt Winning Climate solutions How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need – Bill Gates Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming – Paul Hawken Investing in the Era of Climate Change – Bruce Usher Making Climate Policy Work – David Victor and Danny Cullenward Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future – Elizabeth Kolbert The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World – Oliver Morton Social challenges of climate change This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate – Naomi Klein On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal – Naomi Klein Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future – Mary Robinson Bonus: Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez Environment and biodiversity Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm – Isabella Tree The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet – George Monbiot Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside – Dieter Helm Looking forwards The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis – Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac The Climate Book – Greta Thunberg Uplifting reads Humankind: A Human History – Rutger Bregman Humans: A Brief History of How We F***** It All Up – Tom Phillips  Speaker's Bio(s) William McDonnell, COO, Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market William is COO for the ICVCM, the new global governance body to set and enforce threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market. Prior to that he had a 25-year career in financial services. Most recently he was Group Chief Risk Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee for RSA Insurance Group plc for 7 years, responsible for Risk, Assurance and Compliance groupwide. Prior to RSA he held roles at HSBC Investment Bank, Aviva, the UK Financial Services Authority and Deloitte. William is a leading voice on climate risk in the financial sector, having served as a member of the ClimateWise Council and of the UK's Climate Financial Risk Forum, and as chair of the Emerging Risks Initiative of leading global insurers, publishing a major climate study ‘The Heat is on – Insurability and Resilience in a Changing Climate'. 

[EN] Description In this episode we talk with comrade Effrosyni, a cooperative worker at the factory VioME, about factory occupation and workers' self-management. In the first half of the episode we learn about the history leading up to the occupation and the first autonomous years at VioMe. Among the topics discussed are the existing connection with Argentinian comrades from the recovered factory movement, how VioMe was inspired by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas; the inner workings of the cooperative (how decisions are made for example), as well as the ongoing attempts to evict the workers from the property and the ways they manage to resist with the help of the broader community around the factory. In the second part, Effrosyni goes into more detail about the ways in which the workers converted the factory from its initial purpose of making building materials to soaps and cleaning products after the occupation, and the motivations behind this decision. We learn about interactions with other coops and how VioMe is embedded in the supply chain. Effrosyni also gives some advice for people facing a similar situation to the VioMe workers in 2013. At the end of the episode and in the description we discuss and link ways of supporting the coop at VioMe. [RO] Descriere În episodul de azi vorbim cu tovarășa Effrosyni, o muncitoare cooperativă de la fabrica VioMe, despre ocuparea fabricii și auto-managerierea muncitorilor. În prima parte a episodului aflăm mai multe despre evenimentele care au dus la ocuparea fabricii și despre primii ani în care VioMe a operat ca o fabrică autonomă. Printre punctele pe care le atingem se numără și conexiunile cu mișcarea de recuperare a fabricilor din Argentina, felul în care s-au inspirat de la mișcarea Zapatistă din Chiapas, modul de funcționare al cooperativei (cum sunt luate deciziile spre exemplu), precum și despre încercările continue de evacuare cu care se confruntă și despre felul în care rezistă, cu sprijinul mai larg al comunității din jurul fabricii. În a doua parte a discuției, Effrosyni ne povestește mai detaliat despre felul în care au făcut trecerea de la materiale de construcție pe care le produceau înainte de ocuparea fabricii, la săpunuri și produse de curățenie și despre convingerile și motivele din spatele acestei decizii. Aflăm despre interacțiunea cu alte cooperative și despre felul în care VioMe se integrează în lanțul de distribuție. Effrosyni oferă și câteva sfaturi celor care se confruntă cu o situație asemănătoare cu cea a muncitoarelor și muncitorilor de la VioMe din 2013. La final și în descrierea episodului aflăm în ce fel putem susține cooperativa de la VioMe. ===== Re(Surse) VioMe contact and social media fb: @SEVIOME ig: @se_viome twitter: @SE_VIO_ME e-mail: seviome@gmail.com telephone: +30 2313 031154 international blog: www.viome.org workers' union blog (Greece): https://biom-metal.blogspot.com/ VioMe products e-shop: www.viomecoop.com (for Greece) map w/ products in Europe: https://bit.ly/3GvTFoy The Take (2005) [documentary] http://www.thetake.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-DSu8RPJt8 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426596/ Naomi Kkein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, ed. Metropolitan Books (2007). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine Naomi Kkein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, ed. Simon & Schuster (2014). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21913812-this-changes-everything

Are you ready to wake up, grow up, show up and get involved in the world before the Kings and Queens who own more influence than ever take over?Learn about which archetype represents the life you're living right now and how to move forward in Paul's latest solo podcast this week on Living 4D.Be sure to stay to the end to listen to the song, Wake Up: Your Soul Knows What It Is Here to Do, created by Ian Morris for this episode.Show NotesWhat is an archetype? (9:41)The production of consciousness. (13:12)The child stage. (20:50)The warrior stage. (34:16)A fork in the road: Taking the Hero's Journey. (39:52)Becoming a King or Queen requires high levels of mastery and discipline. (55:05)Where are the rebels? (1:08:32)The Wise Man or Woman path. (1:18:03)The punchline. (1:40:03)How to save your children. (2:03:12)“There's 85 Kings and Queens in the world and 7 billion of us.” (2:10:15)ResourcesThe Collected Works of Carl JungThe work of Edward Edinger, Ken Wilbur, Arnold Mindell, John Archibald Wheeler, Edward Bernays, Manly Palmer Hall, Adam Smith, Chris Hardy, Walter Russell and E.O. WilsonThe Biology of Transcendence by Joseph Chilton PearceThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi KleinTao Te Ching: The Book of Meaning and Life by Richard WilhelmWhen God Was a Woman by Merlin StoneMore resources for this episode are available on our website.Thanks to our awesome sponsors: Organifi (save 20 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK20 at checkout), Paleovalley (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code chek15 at checkout), BiOptimizers (save 10 percent on your purchase by using the code Paul10 at checkout), Cymbiotika (save 15 percent on your purchase by using the code CHEK15 at checkout) and Essential Oil Wizardry (save 10 percent on your purchase by using the code living4d at checkout).As an Amazon Associate, we earn commissions from qualifying purchases.

Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard - "Only Love," a 2021 single on Mom + Pop. Step aside, Jimmy Tamborello. Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard is lending his distinctive voice to a new electronic producer, Tycho (real name: Scott Hansen).  In a press release, Hansen explained how the two came to collaborate: I had been a fan of Ben's work for a long time when, in 2016, I had the chance to do a remix for Death Cab for Cutie's track “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive.” Ben's voice was a very inspiring element to work with from a production standpoint, I felt it really meshed well with the kinds of sounds and instrumentation I gravitate towards. ‘Only Love' started life as an instrumental, but something was missing. I sent a rough demo to Ben and he recorded some vocals over it. The first time I heard the rough vocals the whole song suddenly made sense and the arrangement flowed out of that. After my early experimentations with vocals on Weather this felt like a great opportunity to put everything I had learned during that process into practice. It was certainly an honor to be able to work with such an iconic voice. Gibbard described how his lyrics came together: In 2014, while reading This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, I came across a quote from Montanan goat rancher and environmentalist Alexis Bonogofsky that moved me immensely. Speaking about the fight to protect public lands in southeastern Montana from the mining company Arch Coal, she said: ‘(The) connection to this place and the love people have for it, that's what Arch Coal doesn't get. They underestimate that. They don't understand it so they disregard it. And that's what in the end will save that place. It's not the hatred for the coal companies or anger, but love will save this place. When Scott sent me the music for ‘Only Love,' it seemed perfect for this statement. Since reading Alexis' words, I've carried them as a universal truth; that the only way we preserve the people, places or things we care for is with love, not hatred. This is often easier said than done, of course. But I find myself coming back to her statement as if it were a mantra. Read the full post on KEXP.org Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Shannon and Alessia sit down with their brother Jason who is doing a master's in earth sciences and studying climate change from a social, economic, and scientific point of view. They discuss a recent vote in Switzerland that got rejected, therefore making it difficult for Switzerland to meet the Paris agreements for 2030 to reduce carbon emissions. They also look at climate issues we are facing today and will face in the future, as well as some hopeful messages and actions each individual can make to have a positive impact on the planet, and much more. Documentaries: “A Life On Our Planet” by David Attenborough: https://attenboroughfilm.com “The Year Earth Changed”: https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/originals/the-year-earth-changed/ Books: “A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future” by David Attenborough, link to Get Amazon purchase https://www.amazon.com/Life-Our-Planet-Witness-Statement/dp/1538719983 “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate” by Naomi Klein, Get Amazon purchase https://www.amazon.com/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697392

Kyle sits down with his longtime friends Chris Dollesin and Sean O'Gorman for a wide-ranging conversation on the climate crisis, the systems which perpetuate it, the systems which may be help remedy it, and what folks can do to get involved and help save our planet.RESOURCES:WATCHFantastic Fungi (2019)Kiss the Ground  (2020)Gather (2020) READSummary for Policymakers, Global Warming of 1.5°C by IPCC (2018)This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein (2014)On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal  by Naomi Klein (2019) A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life by L. Hunter Lovins et. al. (2018)The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018)Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (2008)Good Friday Agreement of 1998EXPERIENCEEn-Roads Climate Change Solutions SimulatorWalk Me Through It was created by and is hosted, edited and produced by Kyle Kilkenny. Follow Kyle on Twitter, Instagram, & TikTok @kylejkilkenny!New episodes every Tuesday! Please follow, subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen!If you have a question, comment, topic or guest request for the show, email Kyle at kylejkilkenny@gmail.com.To support the show and to keep it ad-free, visit buymeacoffee.com/kylejkilkenny. Supporters will be listed in the episode description!Co-Produced by Patrick Johnson.Our Creative Consultant is Chris Dollesin.Theme Music by Stephen Smith.Special Thanks:Chris-- for his friendship, love and telling me what I need to hear.Sean-- for his friendship, love, and Kermit voice.My parents, Kerry & Ken-- for giving me life and some podcast equipment.All of you-- for listening!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kylejkilkenny)

(episode script)[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]Welcome to the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer. Season 1 was about exploring how the arts contribute to environmental awareness and action. I produced 3 episodes in French, 15 in English as well as a series of bilingual blogs and videos. You can see and hear them at https://www.conscient.ca/. Season 2 is about accepting reality, working through ecological grief and charting a path forward. Today you'll hear episode 1, called reality. It touches upon our perception of reality, the possibility of human extinction, eco anxiety and eco grief, hope, arts, storytelling and the wisdom of indigenous cultures. The episode mixes quotations from 28 authors with field recordings from my simplesoundscapescollection and from my soundscape composition, Au dernier vivant les biens. This poetic layering of ideas and sound is how I make sense of life and the world around me.A complete transcript of this episode, including weblinks to the source each of quotation and field recording, can be found in the episode notes. The rest of season 2 will feature interviews with thought leaders, in English ou en francais, about their responses and reactions to episode 1. This is where I will be fleshing out some of the questions I raise in the episode with experts and thought leaders. Please stay tuned. Veuillez noter que cette émission est également disponible en français. [e11 Arrival 2017 09 19, Dash-8, Ottawa Airport, ON]*Journalist Jack Miles, If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?Reality, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is “the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” Instead of being the method through which we observe a thing, reality is the nature or truth of this thing.  [e55 crôute, 2018 01 28, Duhamel QC]Definition of Reality in Buddhism,WikipediaBuddhism seeks to address any disparity between a person's view of reality and the actual state of things.[e97 raven 2018 07 24 Saturna Island, BC]Writer Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based ChangeWe must tune in to our ability to see beyond the physical reality that surrounds us and awaken to the vast unseen world that exists. [e169 chorus 2018 05 26 Duhamel, QC]Cultural theorist Thomas Berry, The Dream of the EarthOur challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human. It is to transcend not only national limitations, but even our species isolation, to enter into the larger community of living species. This brings about a completely new sense of reality and value. Historian Paul Krause (also known as Hesiod),Francis Bacon's Philosophy of Scientific ConquestFor Francis Bacon, man is superior to nature. But man is also alienated from nature. Nature is harsh and unforgiving and something that needs to be conquered. Rather than seeing man as part of the web of nature, Bacon sees man as existing in a natural empire.[chainsaw, 2016 12 04, Duhamel QC] [ice falling, 1990 North Bay, ON]Political science professor Thomas Homer-Dixon, Commanding HopeToday's globe-spanning crises all stem from common sources: beliefs and values that are too self-centered, political systems that are too hidebound, economies that are too rapacious, and technologies that are too dirty for a small, crowded planet with dwindling resources and fraying natural systems.[birdsong, 2020 03 14, Biosphere2, AZ]Activist Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The ClimateWhat the climate needs to avoid collapse, is a contraction in humanity's use of resources and what our economic model demands, to avoid collapse, is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature. Philosophy professor Todd Dufresne, For the Love of Wisdom: Climate Change and the Revenge of HistoryWe're all being “radicalized by reality.” It's just that for some people it takes a personal experience of fire, landslide, or hurricane to get their attention. I'm afraid it takes mass death and extinction.Whoever survives these experiences will have a renewed appreciation for nature, for the external world, and for the necessity of collectivism in the face of mass extinction. There's hope in this — although I admit it's wrapped in ugliness.[2 appel, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1996 Montréal QC]Environmental humanitiesprofessor Jennifer Atkinson, Facing It Eco-anxiety and climate grief are sometimes framed as “disorders” but in fact these feelings typically arise from an accurate perception of our ecological crisis. It may be more appropriate to identify eco-anxiety as a “moral emotion” – a sign of compassion, attachment to life, and desire for justice. Our future remains unwritten, and by embracing the unknown we are better able to reframe our thinking in empowering ways. Writer Rebecca Solnit, Hope is a​n embrace of the unknown​: Rebecca Solnit on living in dark timesHope locates itself in the premises that we don't know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. [33 nuage, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1996 Montréal QC]Dharma teacher Catherine Ingram, Facing ExtinctionLove, what else is there to do now?  Here we are, some of the last humans who will experience this beautiful planet since Homo sapiens began their journey some 200,000 years ago. Now, in facing extinction of our species, you may wonder if there is any point in going on.  Journalist Dahl Jamail, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate DisruptionMy heart breaks for what we have done and are doing to the planet. I grieve, yet this ongoing process has become more like peeling back the layers of an onion — there is always more work to do, as the crisis we have created for ourselves continues to unfold.  And somewhere along the line I surrendered my attachment to any results that might stem from my work. I am hope-free.Journalist Richard Heinberg, The Big PictureHope is not just an expectation of better times ahead; it is an active attitude, a determination to achieve the best possible outcome regardless of the challenges one is facing.[protest, 2017 01 21 Ottawa, ON]Activist Greta Thunberg, Message to world leaders at #DavosAgenda For me, hope is the feeling that keeps you going, even though all odds may be against you. For me, hope comes from action not just words. For me, hope is telling it like it is.[8 capital, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1990 Montréal QC]Law Professor Shalanda Baker, Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy TransitionWill we redesign systems to replicate the current structures of power and control, or will we reimagine our system to benefit those are so often left out of discussions regarding systems design? [49 temps, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1998 Montréal QC]Writer Britt Wray, Climate tipping points: the ones we actually wantWhen a small change in a complex system produces an enormous shift, that new pathway gets reinforced by positive feedback loops, which lock in all that change. That's why tipping points are irreversible. You can't go back to where you were before. A tipping point that flips non-linearly could be the thing that does us in, but it could also be the thing that allows us to heal our broken systems and better sustain ourselves. [7 brassage, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1996 Manitoba]Public policy professorEric Beinhocker, I Am a Carbon AbolitionistHumankind is in a race between two tipping points. The first is when the Earth's ecosystems and the life they contain tip into irreversible collapse due to climate change. The second is when the fight for climate action tips from being just one of many political concerns to becoming a mass social movement. The existential question is, which tipping point will we hit first?[41 profondeur, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1980s Ice breaker, Nunavut]Zen teacher David Loy, Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological CrisisThe Buddhist solution to this predicament is not to get rid of the self, because there is no such thing to get rid of. The sense of self needs to be deconstructed (‘forgotten' in meditation) and reconstructed (replacing the ‘three poisons' of greed, ill will and delusion with generosity, loving-kindness and the wisdom that recognizes our interdependence). Just as there is no self to get rid of, we cannot ‘return to nature' because we've never been apart from it, but we can realize our nonduality with it and begin to live in ways that accord with that realization. [43 réveil, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1990s Church bells, Europe]Actor Dominic Champagne, Le fond de ma pensée (in French only)Knowing that I will be leaving my three sons a world in worse condition than the one I inherited from my parents, knowing that we are contemporaries in a world where our actions are jeopardizing the future of life on Earth and knowing that the situation may get worse, what am I doing with my life? How can I keep putting on shows and spinning balloons on my nose as if nothing had happened?Journalist Julia Rosen,An artist set out to paint climate change. She ended up on a journey through griefSociety tends to see climate change as a scientific issue, rather than a cultural and political challenge that demands our full humanity — the kind more often explored and addressed through art.Composer R. Murray Schafer, Au dernier vivant les biensLook at war. People who want to use noise as a kind of weaponry. To frighten them.  To scare them. To beat them down. To pulverize them. If you want to destroy people. One of the first resorts you have is to noise.Artist David Haley, Going beyond EarthlyWe now need aesthetics to sensitize us to other ways of life and we need artists to sensitize us to the shape of things to come.[28 liquide, Au dernier vivant les biens, 1998 Montréal QC]  Artist Diego Galafassi, How the arts might help us grapple with climate changeArt is a space where we can ask very difficult questions and explore things in a more open-ended way and not be committed to solutions. Artist Lance Gharavi,In a climate crisis, artists have a duty to speak up – but what should they say?While individual works of art, ‘however genius,' may have value, they won't do the trick. What we need is for all art to be about climate change.[Marche sonore 1, Grenouilles, 1992 Montréal QC]  Composer Robert Normandeau, Marche sonore 1It's a bit like taking a frog, which is a cold-blooded animal, and putting it in a jar of water and heating the water, little by little. The frog will get used to the temperature rising and rising, and it will not notice that the temperature has risen and one day the temperature will be too hot for it and it will die. Therefore, our civilization, in terms of sound, looks a bit like that, that is to say we get used to it, we get used to it, we get used to it and at some point, we are going to have punctured eardrums. Historian Yuval Harari,Why Did Humans Become The Most Successful Species On Earth?If you think about any religion, any economic system, any political system, at the basis you will find some fictional story about God, about money, about human rights, about a nation. All these things are fictional stories. They are not a biological reality, but it's a very powerful and convincing and benign fiction that helps us organize our political and legal systems in the modern world.Writer Charles Eisenstein, To Reason with a MadmanExpository prose generates resistance, but stories touch a deeper place in the soul. They flow like water around intellectual defenses and soften the soil so that dormant visions and ideals can take root. Writer Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's MeditationsTo use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those who hear it, takes them beyond what they think and know and feel and empowers them to think and feel and know even more.  We're storytellers, really. That's what we do. That is our power as human beings.[fireplace, 2021 01 26, Duhamel QC]  Composer Claude Schryer, story from participation at How does culture contribute to sustainable futures?Here's a story.  Once upon a time… I think it was during the fall of 2019, I was at a meeting about how the arts and cultural sector, and in particular indigenous traditional knowledge community, could play a much larger role in the fight against climate change. I was very fortunate to be there, and I was very excited to learn more. So, we sat around a table, not quite a circle, but close enough, and each person shared knowledge and some stories. I spoke about how the institution that I worked for was trying to become greener and walk its talk on environmental issues. Others spoke about issues like built heritage and intangible culture and hat kind of thing. Then, the representative from an indigenous cultural organization took my breath away when he said that it would ‘likely take as long to resolve the ecological crisis as it did to create it'. Now, I played this back in my mind: take as long to resolve the ecological crisis as it did, or as it does, to create it. How is this possible? and then I said: ‘but, but we do not have that kind of time'. Or do we? We all looked at each other in silence. I'll never forget that moment. [e105 thunder, 2018 08 04, Duhamel QC]Activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Our survival utterly depends on living in nature, not apart from itIt's important to recognize how closely linked environment, health, economics, culture and rights are in our society. The Earth is a living, breathing entity just the same as our bodies are. Our survival utterly depends on living in nature, not apart from it. Writer Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of PlantsThe land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.[frogs 2017 05 22, Preston River, QC]Dharma teacher Catherine Ingram, Facing Extinction : Despite our having caused so much destruction, it is important to also consider the wide spectrum of possibilities that make up a human life.  Yes, on one end of that spectrum is greed, cruelty, and ignorance; on the other end is kindness, compassion, and wisdom. We are imbued with great creativity, brilliant communication, and extraordinary appreciation of and talent for music and other forms of art. There is no other known creature whose spectrum of consciousness is as wide and varied as our own.*I agree with Catherine that we humans are conscient beings, with an unlimited capacity for, yes, greed, cruelty, ignorance and selfishness but also for kindness, compassion, wisdom, creativity and imagination.My own understanding and perception of reality have been transformed since I started writing this episode. Yuval Harari's statement about how ‘fictional stories are not a biological reality' shook me up and woke me up.More and more, I now see, and more importantly, I now feel in my bones, ‘the state of things as they actually exist', without social filters or unsustainable stories blocking the way. So where do we go from here? Eric Beinhocker reminded us earlier in the program that humankind is in a race between two tipping points: irreversible collapse or mass social movement.  My heart, of course, is with massive social movement, there are signs of it growing, however, my rational mind, informed by science, sees irreversible collapse as the most likely outcome. and this collapse has already begun and so we must make every effort, for the benefit of future generations, to slow down the collapse while a mass social movement grows. Personally, my hope is that we find a way to accept reality, to work our way through ecological grief and to chart a path forward. My dream, as zen teacher David Loy suggests, is that one day, we can ‘realize our nonduality with nature and begin to live in ways that accord with that realization'.  *You've been listening to reality, episode 1 of season 2 of the conscient podcast. My name is Claude Schryer. I would like to warmly thank the 28 individuals who I quoted in this program. Some of their quotes have been slightly abbreviated for concision and clarity. I also want to thank all those who have helped me produce this episode, in particular my wife Sabrina Mathews and podcast consultant Ayesha Barmania.Please keep in mind that this podcast is a work in progress and that I'm aware that my work has moments of incoherence, contradiction, unconscious bias, a bit of panic and some naïveté, among other things, so please feel free to challenge my assumptions, share your thoughts and join the conversation through conscient.ca. Also keep in mind that these are troubling and challenging issues, so please do not hesitate to reach out to support groups or counselling services in your community for help. A reminder that episode 2 (é20 réalité) is the French version of this program and episode 3 will be the first in a series of conversations with guests about their response to the reality episode.Take good care and thanks for listening.[e74 sky, 2018 08 04, Duhamel QC]Thanks to Hélène Prévost and Lolita Boudreault for their support. *END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHere is a link for more information on season 5. Please note that, in parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and it's francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' which are 'short, practical essays for those frightened by the ecological crisis'. To subscribe (free of charge) see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. You'll also find a podcast version of each a calm presence posting on Substack or one your favorite podcast player.Also. please note that a complete transcript of conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes from season 1 to 4 is available on the web version of this site (not available on podcast apps) here: https://conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes.Your feedback is always welcome at claude@conscient.ca and/or on conscient podcast social media: Facebook, X, Instagram or Linkedin. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. Claude SchryerLatest update on April 2, 2024

Today on Sojourner Truth: We bring you a special on the interrelationship between economic and environmental justice in the time of COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, we've seen vulnerable communities around the world " both in the Global North and the Global South " suffer the most. There have been over 329,000 reported deaths and at least 5 million reported cases, according to The Washington Post. Most of those impacted have been poor people, elderly people, communities of color and people who live in polluted and environmentally-devastated areas. Before COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on the world, the effects of environmental devastation and poverty meant that billions of people were already experiencing untold hardships. Now, as the pandemic impacts all corners of the planet, it has become more obvious that those who are most vulnerable bear the heaviest burden. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and reinforced the cruelty of our current system, which is pushing billions of people into poverty and is destroying Mother Earth as we speak. In light of this, there are growing demands from grassroots movements around the world for a systemic change. Among these demands are the call for a Global Green New Deal, which its proponents say will move us from crisis to justice for people and the planet. In the coming weeks, groups like The Leap and The War on Want will be launching a call to action for a Global Green New Deal. Their three core demands are: 1) End global inequality by uplifting workers rights, 2) Reclaim and redistribute the global commons, 3) Rebuild global finance and trade regimes. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar titled, A Global Green New Deal: Into the Portal, Leave No one Behind. The webinar, hosted by Haymarket Books, featured discussions by Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She recently published an article titled, The Pandemic Is a Portal, in which she discusses how COVID-19 threatens the world and what we should do next. Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, filmmaker and professor. She is best known for her books No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014). The conversation, moderated by Asad Rehman, focused on how we move from crisis to justice and build a Global Green New Deal.

Today on Sojourner Truth: We bring you a special on the interrelationship between economic and environmental justice in the time of COVID-19. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since then, we've seen vulnerable communities around the world " both in the Global North and the Global South " suffer the most. There have been over 329,000 reported deaths and at least 5 million reported cases, according to The Washington Post. Most of those impacted have been poor people, elderly people, communities of color and people who live in polluted and environmentally-devastated areas. Before COVID-19 began wreaking havoc on the world, the effects of environmental devastation and poverty meant that billions of people were already experiencing untold hardships. Now, as the pandemic impacts all corners of the planet, it has become more obvious that those who are most vulnerable bear the heaviest burden. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and reinforced the cruelty of our current system, which is pushing billions of people into poverty and is destroying Mother Earth as we speak. In light of this, there are growing demands from grassroots movements around the world for a systemic change. Among these demands are the call for a Global Green New Deal, which its proponents say will move us from crisis to justice for people and the planet. In the coming weeks, groups like The Leap and The War on Want will be launching a call to action for a Global Green New Deal. Their three core demands are: 1) End global inequality by uplifting workers rights, 2) Reclaim and redistribute the global commons, 3) Rebuild global finance and trade regimes. Today, you will hear audio from a recent webinar titled, A Global Green New Deal: Into the Portal, Leave No one Behind. The webinar, hosted by Haymarket Books, featured discussions by Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein. Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, published in 1997, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. She recently published an article titled, The Pandemic Is a Portal, in which she discusses how COVID-19 threatens the world and what we should do next. Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, filmmaker and professor. She is best known for her books No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014). The conversation, moderated by Asad Rehman, focused on how we move from crisis to justice and build a Global Green New Deal.

For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet—and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. Klein joined us at Town Hall with insight from On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, a report from the front lines of contemporary natural disaster that offers prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act—as well as hopeful glimpses of a far better future. In conversation with Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, Klein investigated our modern climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one. She delved into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of “perpetual now,” to the soaring history of humans changing and evolving rapidly in the face of grave threats, to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of “climate barbarism.” Join Klein and Mosqueda for an expansive, far-ranging exploration that sees the battle for a greener world as indistinguishable from the fight for our lives, and a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and No Logo. Teresa Mosqueda is the Position 8 representative on the Seattle City Council in Washington. Mosqueda won a first term in the general election on November 7, 2017. Mosqueda is a former consumer advocate for the Washington Affordable Care Act Exchange Board. She has also worked for the Children’s Alliance and the Washington State Labor Council. Presented by Town Hall Seattle. Recorded live in The Great Hall on September 24, 2019. 

Emma and Chloe discuss the recent election result in Australia and what it means for the environment. What should people worried about climate change do now? To explore that question, they go back and look at former PM Bob Hawke’s environmental legacy and the role he played in saving Antarctica from mining. They discuss how environmental wins come about and how the landscape has changed since Hawke. How do we talk about climate change today and why isn’t that translating into action? What kind of communication works, and why? Why are we so obsessed with market solutions and tech billionaires? Chloe goes deeper into a discussion of the role of social movements, and what the long historical threads of nonviolent action might tell us about the way forward.Reading ListOn environmentalism and climate change:Micha Frazer-Carroll, “On environmentalism, whiteness and activist superstars,” gal-dem, 25 September 2019http://gal-dem.com/on-individualism-whiteness-and-activist-superstars/?fbclid=IwAR2nZWGp9zqK04FGukcFIddz1HTLoQEWG5bDUPStAxwTIwMFG_18yl6TTRQMartin Gelin, “The Misogyny of Climate Deniers,” The New Republic, 29 August 2019.https://newrepublic.com/article/154879/misogyny-climate-deniersChristopher Jones, “The Delusion and Danger of Infinite Economic Growth,” The New Republic, 2 October 2019.https://newrepublic.com/article/155214/delusion-danger-infinite-economic-growthBill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2019)Noami Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014) and On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (2019)David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019)Maia Wikler and Thanu Yakupitiyage, “11 Young Climate Justice Activists You Need to Pay Attention to,” Vice, 1 October 2019https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8xwvq3/11-young-climate-justice-activists-you-need-to-pay-attention-to-beyond-greta-thunbergOn tech billionaires:Luke Darby, “Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists,” The Guardian, 19 August 2019https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientistsJustine Musk, "I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce, Marie Claire, 10 September 2010https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/Adam Rogers, “How Rich Donors Like Epstein (and Others) Undermine Science,” Wired, 15 September 2019https://www.wired.com/story/the-problem-with-rich-people-funding-science/James B. Stewart, Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, “Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA,” New York Times, 31 Juy 2019https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.htmlOn Antarctica:Emma Shortis, “Lessons from the Last Continent: Science, Emotion, and the Relevance of History,” in Communicating the Climate: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge, Perspectives, Issue 2019/4, Rachel Carson Centre.http://www.environmentandsociety.org/perspectives/2019/4/communicating-climate-knowing-change-changing-knowledgeEmma Shortis,“History repeating as Greenpeace returns to the Antarctic,” Greenpeace Australia Pacific, 18 April 2018.https://www.greenpeace.org.au/news/historyrepeatingasgreenpeacereturnsto-the-antarctic/Emma Shortis,“Saving Antarctica, the last continent,” Daily Review, 17 December 2016.https://dailyreview.com.au/saving-antarctica/53885/

Want to know where things get done in politics these days? Look at the states. In this new podcast with Maryland Delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-19), we start with the role of a state delegate in the functioning of government, and continue to how he's able to implement a seemingly national progressive agenda at the state level. We end off on what Stewart thinks the Democrats are doing wrong and how it can be fixed, and what two bouts with cancer taught him. This makes for a really good episode! Vaughn Stewart is one of three state Delegates from Maryland's 19th district. He was formally an associate at the law firm WilmerHale, Policy Director for Rep. Jamie Raskin's 2016 congressional campaign, and a graduate of NYU Law School. _________________________________________________ Favorite Podcast: "S-Town" Most Insightful person to follow on Social Media: Prof. Mark Paul -- @MarkVinPaul Book(s) that have most shaped his thinking: "The Grapes of Wrath"--John Steinbeck & "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate"--Naomi Klein

With climate change a hot topic these days (some would say it's getting hotter every year), Trinity's Adult Education series led to a very compelling presentation and discussion. Assistant Professor of History at Washington University Venus Bivar gave a presentation focused on the European industrial revolution, and the cycle of "growth" that our American society has grown accustomed to since then. Economic growth became inseparable from fossil fuel consumption, which became inseparable from climate change. While scientists are warning us of the effects, Professor Bivar pointed out that the social climate surrounding consumption has yet to really shift towards reducing & re-using, in addition to recycling. Trinity congregants asked questions and brought ideas forward to try and better understand this issue. This was a fascinating presentation, and we hope you enjoy! Update: Professor Bivar has sent on some recommendations for people interested in learning more about the politics of climate change and economic development... Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (London: Earthscan, 2009)Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014)Stiglitz, Sen, and Fitoussi, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn't Add Up (New York: New Press, 2010)Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton, 2017)

The author of The Shock Doctrine, No is Not Enough, and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate sits down with us to discuss her new book The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (http://bit.ly/BattleParaidise). Naomi talks about Wall Street investors’ view of post-hurricane Puerto Rico as a potential “blank canvas” to host their various schemes, and puts this in the context of a long colonial history of U.S. attempts to depopulate the island—including through mass sterilization—in order to overcome the impressive resistance of Puerto Ricans. She also spoke with us about the daily shocks of life under Trump, and the urgent need for political education for people to understand where these attacks are coming from and overcome the prevailing sense of disorientation. In our opener, Jen and Danny talked about the debunking of the famous “Marshmallow Study” that many claimed could predict your future based on whether you can wait 15 minutes for a treat as a 4-year-old (http://bit.ly/MarshmallowStudy). And we gushed for a bit about the terrific new website for Socialist Worker (http://bit.ly/NewSocialistWorker). Links Get a copy of The Battle for Paradise in English (http://bit.ly/BattleParaidise) or Spanish (http://bit.ly/SpanishPR). All royalties go directly to JunteGente (http://bit.ly/JunteGente), a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island. Learn more about the campaign to audit Puerto Rico’s debt (http://bit.ly/auditPRdebt). Check out the video of Naomi’s recent event in New York City with a number of Puerto Rican activists (http://bit.ly/CooperUnionevent). Also check out No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (http://bit.ly/NKNoNotEnough). Follow Naomi Klein at her website (http://bit.ly/NaomiKleinsite) and at The Intercept (http://bit.ly/NKIntercept). And check out the video of Naomi speaking with a number of other activists at last year’s Anti-Inauguration (http://bit.ly/AntiInauguration). Finally check out some of Socialist Worker’s coverage of Puerto Rico’s: • resistance to colonialism (http://bit.ly/PRcolony) • debt crisis (http://bit.ly/DebtBeforeStorm) • teachers union (http://bit.ly/MercedezMartinez) • May Day protest (http://bit.ly/PRMayDay) Music in this episode The Boy & Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix) Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby, “Marshmallow World” Calle 13, “Baile De Los Pobres” Hector Lavoe, “Juanito Alimaña” Andrés Jiménez, “Despierta Boricua” Tito Puente, “Five Beat Mambo”

anarchy .(2)........ jesus Spoke with performance artist Plaedo about living in a climate change era, art as solace/art as weapon, CDs, societal collapse, denial, joyous rebellion, anarchist disaster relief, how art helps us remember the good things, symbolism, street theater, zipper songs, dance, leftist elitism, planting seed of change, small liberations, and listening to our inner voice. Notes: - The fires were really bad around Eugene at that time, and it was incredibly smoky for days. We were right in the worst of it when this was recorded. Multnomah falls did end up being saved though, although many other areas of the Columbia Gorge were totally devastated -I want to be clear that Ready To Die by Notorious BIG is one of the best albums of all time, like, not-get-my-CD-changer-fixed good -I believe Naomi Klein's prediction about a 50% chance of societal collapse if we didn't stop taking fossil fuels out of the ground by 2017 is from her book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" from 2014, but I can't verify -The saying "If you can talk you can sing, if you can walk you can dance" can be seen as ableist, we can all dance and sing! Referenced: Plaedo's website: https://plaedo.com/ An article about antifa disaster relief: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hurricane-harvey-antifa-texas-flooding-antifacist-storm-relief-efforts-a7921846.html Emma Goldman quote: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." 1000 Gestalten: Hamburg G20 Protest "zombie walk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV99jp897Cw Poem "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestsellers No Logo (2000), The Shock Doctrine (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (2014) which was the 2014 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction and was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014. Now in paperback, it is being translated into over 25 languages. This Changes Everything, the documentary inspired by the book and narrated by Naomi premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 and is available worldwide. Naomi is a member of the board of directors of 350.org and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow of the Nation Institute. Monique Wilson is Director of One Billion Rising and one of the Philippines' veteran theatre and film actresses--having acted professionally since the age of nine. At 18 she starred as the lead role in the original London West End production of Miss Saigon. In 1994, at 24 years old, she went back to the Philippines and founded the New Voice Company (NVC) theatre group, with a vision to awaken, inspire and transform Philippine audiences with socially provocative and innovative political theatre work. As NVC’s Artistic Director, Monique has steered the company into one of Asia’s leading theatre companies, producing a diversity of shows--from the Asian premiere of Angels in America in 1995, to a devised theatrical piece on the plight of street children (in collaboration with the David Glass company, UK), to their acclaimed original production Revolutionary Hearts about activism, revolution and nationhood. Their recent original production The Male Voice ­ explored roots of violence in Filipino men. In 2012, Monique was awarded the “Light of Culture” Lifetime Achievement Award by UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute for her work in theatre and activism in the Philippines. In 2013 Monique received the Hildegarde Lifetime Achievement Award—given by St. Scholastica’s College in the Philippines, for her lifetime contribution to art, culture and empowerment of women and girls through her theatre and activism work. In 2014, Monique left a five year post as head of the MA/MFA Acting International course, which she spearheaded, at the East 15 Acting School in London where she trained postgraduate international actors from over 45 countries, and where she organized V-Day events and directed political plays.

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014) Klein quotes Thomas J. Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who says that the steps being proposed to radically reduce carbon emissions would change the American way of life and put large segments of the economy out of business. Klein agrees, but argues that transforming global capitalism into a more humane economic system would be a good thing. In her book, she urges progressives who care about the environment to show that the steps needed to avert catastrophic climate change “are also our best hope of building a much more stable and equitable economic system, one that strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work, and radically reins in corporate greed.” Klein also argues that the imperatives of growth and consumption that drive global capitalism are incompatible with what we need to do to avert catastrophic warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014) Klein quotes Thomas J. Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who says that the steps being proposed to radically reduce carbon emissions would change the American way of life and put large segments of the economy out of business. Klein agrees, but argues that transforming global capitalism into a more humane economic system would be a good thing. In her book, she urges progressives who care about the environment to show that the steps needed to avert catastrophic climate change “are also our best hope of building a much more stable and equitable economic system, one that strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work, and radically reins in corporate greed.” Klein also argues that the imperatives of growth and consumption that drive global capitalism are incompatible with what we need to do to avert catastrophic warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014) Klein quotes Thomas J. Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who says that the steps being proposed to radically reduce carbon emissions would change the American way of life and put large segments of the economy out of business. Klein agrees, but argues that transforming global capitalism into a more humane economic system would be a good thing. In her book, she urges progressives who care about the environment to show that the steps needed to avert catastrophic climate change “are also our best hope of building a much more stable and equitable economic system, one that strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work, and radically reins in corporate greed.” Klein also argues that the imperatives of growth and consumption that drive global capitalism are incompatible with what we need to do to avert catastrophic warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014) Klein quotes Thomas J. Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who says that the steps being proposed to radically reduce carbon emissions would change the American way of life and put large segments of the economy out of business. Klein agrees, but argues that transforming global capitalism into a more humane economic system would be a good thing. In her book, she urges progressives who care about the environment to show that the steps needed to avert catastrophic climate change “are also our best hope of building a much more stable and equitable economic system, one that strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work, and radically reins in corporate greed.” Klein also argues that the imperatives of growth and consumption that drive global capitalism are incompatible with what we need to do to avert catastrophic warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Canadian author and journalist Naomi Klein says right-wing conservatives who deny the reality of global warming are correct about the revolutionary implications of climate change. In her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Simon and Schuster, 2014) Klein quotes Thomas J. Donohue, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who says that the steps being proposed to radically reduce carbon emissions would change the American way of life and put large segments of the economy out of business. Klein agrees, but argues that transforming global capitalism into a more humane economic system would be a good thing. In her book, she urges progressives who care about the environment to show that the steps needed to avert catastrophic climate change “are also our best hope of building a much more stable and equitable economic system, one that strengthens and transforms the public sphere, generates plentiful, dignified work, and radically reins in corporate greed.” Klein also argues that the imperatives of growth and consumption that drive global capitalism are incompatible with what we need to do to avert catastrophic warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moyers & Company's Michael Winship writes: A week and a half ago, just as a blizzard was barreling up the East Coast, I traveled to my hometown, Canandaigua, NY, and before a standing-room-only audience of more than 400 at Finger Lakes Community College, had a conversation with author and climate activist Naomi Klein. Our talk was part of the George M. Ewing Forum, named in honor of the late editor and publisher of our local newspaper. He was a worldly and informed man, dedicated to good talk and a lively exchange of ideas. The forum brings to town a variety of speakers each year, some of them from the area, others not. The Finger Lakes region is a beautiful part of the country. As has often been said, it runs on water, and as I grew up, there was an increasing realization that what we have is an invaluable natural resource we could be in danger of losing. Over the years, the threats have grown ever more complex with greater hazards revealed as pollution and development have encroached on the landscape. As a result, much of our audience was composed of environmentalists and concerned citizens, including a contingent from We Are Seneca Lake, the grass roots campaign fighting against the use of crumbling salt mines under the hillsides to store fracked natural gas and liquefied petroleum gases. (One of its leaders is biologist, mother and Moyers & Company guest Sandra Steingraber.) The conversation with Naomi Klein was billed as “Capitalism vs. The Climate: Reflections on the 2015 UN Climate Conference,” and while we certainly spoke a great deal about that recent climate agreement in Paris, our talk ranged more widely as we discussed her life and work, politics, the continuing right-wing denial of global warming, and the climate justice movement. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She’s a member of the board of directors for 350.org, the global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Among many other honors, in 2015 she received The Izzy Award – named after the great writer and editor IF Stone -- celebrating outstanding achievement in independent journalism and media. Klein's most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category. A documentary based on the book, directed by Avi Lewis, was released last fall. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

In This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, her most provocative and optimistic book yet, Naomi Klein has upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us, exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debate. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it - it just requires breaking every rule in the "free-market" playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap - or we sink. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate is a book that will redefine our era.

In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can save our civilization. But it’s going to take radical steps that will transform the way humans interact with the world. Business as usual is no longer an option. On this edition, Naomi Klein speaks about her new book, and points out signs of hope as the global movement to counter climate change matures. Featuring: Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

In her new book: “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”, Naomi Klein argues that while it’s too late to stop climate change, we can save our civilization. But it’s going to take radical steps that will transform the way humans interact with the world. Business as usual is no longer an option. On this edition, Naomi Klein speaks about her new book, and points out signs of hope as the global movement to counter climate change matures. Featuring: Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Come see us interview Adam Savage live in San Francisco on Oct. 28!http://www.bayareascience.org/event/im-story-collider/On the show this week we talk to author and social activist Naomi Klein about her new book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. In it, Klein argues that we are past the time when incremental change can get us to where we need to be to properly address the challenge of climate change—we’re in a situation, she says, where no non-radical choices are left.This episode also features a discussion on new research that suggests gut bacteria could be affecting our minds, and a study that examines the cross-species influence of a babies’ cries.iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inquiring-minds/id711675943RSS: feeds.feedburner.com/inquiring-mindsStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/inquiring-minds