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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.
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Over the weekend the GND Media team ran a radio station at The World Transformed festival, taking place in Hulme this year. Shout out to Josh, Becky, Stephen, Matthew, Mikki, Fitzroy and Barney! We grabbed 15 minutes with the new leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski. We asked him how its going being shot into the limelight, the differences bewteen the Greens and Your Party, and what's it like having to deal with Piers Morgan? Over the next week or so we will be uploading variou...
One thing you can say about the Labour Party, is that they stuck by their promise to renationalise the rail system. Or did they? To discuss everything that's right and wrong about Britain's railways Andrew is joined by Gareth Dennis. Gareth is a rail engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE., and Hosts @Railnatter on Youtube. They discuss Zack Polanski's landmark win for the Green Party leadership, why the rail network is bad for people with access n...
This week Andrew and Lucy are reviewing Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century by the french politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They discuss Melenchon's idea of "the People" how climate change is sown into this book and if Melenchon’s focus on population levels is necessary for his analysis. and we ask Is melenchon a degrowther? Links Get a copy of Now! the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century at Verso. https://www....
We are back! It's been a while and well.. everything is kinda getting a bit shit. We have breached 1.5C, the Labour Party are spent and its not rained in England for two bloody months. Andrew and Lucy got together to discuss all the big events over the last six months and reflect on the local election results in England. We also covered Zack Polanski's leadership bid for the Green Party and if "Eco Populism" is the way to unite the left and send Nigel Farage packing. L...
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-media/id1501980017 Ad's is joined by Mark Nelson (@Energy Bants) founder and managing director of Radiant Energy Group, a organisation that supports low carbon energy transition and keeping nuclear power plants open. They tackle the three big points of contention in the debate around atomic energy. Waste, the link between nu...
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 bountiful clean energy to get humanity off fossil fuels. For others, when nuclear power is mentioned the images of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the threat of apocalyptic war are front and center and believe that this incredibly powerful energy source should remain a re...
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, your demonized, shunned and your humanity questioned, just for trying to find a better life. The climate crisis is going to have millions on the move. How do we bring solidarity and shared understanding to our fellow man? This week on the show Lucy...
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 in which the natural world shapes our existence? Are we being negligent to the lives of other species that make up life on earth, and what affect does that have on humanity in turn? Returning to the show this is Professor Chris Armstrong, to dis...
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 offer so you don't have to! In this endeavor of analysis or political parities commitments we are joined by comrade of the pod Sam Knights! We discuss what is Labour's GB energy? Why haven't the Tory's mentioned water for the last six weeks, Are the Gree...
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 assistant Professor of Philosophy at Baltimore City Community College. Ben Ware author of On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End. Ben is the Co-director of the centre for Philosophy and art at Kings College London. I imagine if you’re listening or watching this you’re probably i...
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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 climate researcher. Gianluca tells his story of being fired from his job as a climate scientist for refusing to fly for work-related travel. He discusses the reasons behind his decision, including the environmental impact of air travel and the need to challen...
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 work has taken her to working in coal mines and car plants to understand the lives of workers in the US and Germany, and how their political formations are changing with the pressures of climate change. Can workers from carbon heavy industries be ...
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 degrowth are really singing on the same hymn sheet. This week on the show Ads and Andrew are joined by Philosopher Kohei Saito to discuss Degrowth Communism. Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo, a...
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 do car companies need you to buy bigger? This week on the show Lucy and Andrew are joined by political economist Dr Tom Haines-Doran, to discuss his recent paper " The financialisation of car consumption". They discuss how the car industry is slowly de...
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 organising practice, Extinction Rebellion has been at the forefront of climate action for the last five years. In the U.K many campaigns and activist are holding their breath, waiting for the Labour Party to take the reins of government, so the question i...
Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/gndmediauk Twitter: @gndmediauk Instagram: gndmediauk This week on the show we are joined by the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Zack Polanski. We discuss how Zack ended up in the Green Party, what makes the party different from Labour, what would a Green Party in Government mean for British industry and how Zack sees personal choices versus systemic change. Shout Out United voices of the world https://w...
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 silver bullet for the climate movement its generating more clean electricity. Renewable forms of energy have sharply decreased in price over the last twenty years, and battery storage solutions are coming on in leaps and bounds, but most of the...
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. Kevin is the chair of energy and climate change at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE) at the University of Manchester and works at the Tyndall center for climate change research. Ad's and Andrew discuss...
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 Africa and the Mediterranean. When the science is pointing in this direction, of destruction and chaos and those in power aren't listening, what do you do? This week we are joined by Peter Kalmus, Climate scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...
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