Guillaume Pitron: The shifting conflicts and costs of ‘green’ energy (ep357)
Guillaume Pitron on why green and clean energy and technologies are not entirely green nor clean; what we can learn from the history of our energy infrastructure ‘transitions’; how moving to ‘green’ energy may actually worsen environmental injustice in some ways; and more.
Rami Barhoush: Occupation, identity, and olive trees in palestine (ep356)
Rami Barhoush on the history of military occupation in Palestine, its parallels with other liberation struggles, the radical act of planting olive trees, and more.
A.Naomi Paik: Sanctuary for all, sanctuary everywhere (ep355)
A. Naomi Paik on the construct of security, the carceral system and military industrial complex, the idea of sanctuary in abolitionist thought, and more.
Johann Hari: Reclaiming our capacities for deep thinking and intimate engagement (ep354)
Johann Hari on the attention economy and the theft of our capacities to focus, how social media platforms are reshaping our consciousness and ways of perceiving the world, and more.
Jason W. Moore: The impossible endless accumulation of capital (ep353)
Jason W. Moore on reframing the Anthropocene to the Capitalocene, the impossibility of endless capital accumulation, a vision beyond climate justice, and more.
Jessica Hernandez: Healing with indigenous science and holistic thinking (ep352)
Jessica Hernandez on the differing worldviews embedded within western and Indigenous science, recognizing healing as political in nature, moving beyond reductionism, and more.
Chelsea Mikael Frazier: Learning environmentalism through the lens of black feminism (ep351)
Chelsea Frazier on understanding colonial earth ethics, learning environmentalism through the lens of Black feminism, seeing scarcity as a construct, and more.
Brad Evans: Reclaiming community and the power of silence (ep350)
Brad Evans on the philosophy of violence, the global media spectacle, the power of silence, and more.
Amalia Leguizamón: A mass consent for socio-ecological injustice (ep349)
Amalia Leguizamón on Argentina's agrarian transformation with GMO soy, the importance of shining a light on the people who both benefit from and are harmed by extraction, extractivism and colonial debt across Latin America, and more.
Kregg Hetherington: The paradox of destroying lands in the name of social welfare (ep348)
Kregg Hetherington on how the soy industry influenced the socio-ecological politics of Paraguay.
Kai Bosworth: Mobilizing through pipeline populism (ep347)
Kai Bosworth on the rise of climate populism and its counterproductive effects, the problem with “we the people” and how to envision change beyond that, and more.
Emma Dowling: Understanding the care crisis (ep346)
Emma Dowling on the structural conditions behind our global care crisis, wealth extraction in the care sector, how we should reconceive of caring, and more.
Bram Ebus: Power, poverty, and criminality in the gold industry (ep345)
Bram Ebus on the multi-layered socio-environmental context that the gold industry operates in, the injustice embedded within law and criminality, and more.
Scott Timcke: Algorithmic capitalism and digital dehumanization (ep344)
Scott Timcke on algorithmic capitalism, digital dehumanization, surveillance technology, and more.
Beatriz Caiuby Labate: Sacred plant medicines and healing psychedelics (ep343)
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) on the stigmatization of sacred plant medicines, Big Pharma and the psychedelic renaissance, her work with the Chacruna Institute, and more.