Elise Silvestri

Climate Niche

Society EN ↓ 3 episodes

The climate crisis. Even if you can’t explain the science, you know it’s here. But no one is giving us the tools and frameworks we need to grapple with it. The climate crisis is not just about parts per million, or degrees, or dystopias. It’s about the powerful and the wealthy. It’s about surveillance. It’s about your health. It’s about affordability. It’s about media and communications. It’s about immigration. It’s about the food on your plate. It’s about you. About us. About the courage to face history and imagine the future. So why are we only talking about degrees? You have a stake in the...

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Elise Silvestri

Episodes

Climatic Philosophies with Timothy Morton 27.02.2026 44:52

Making sense of the climate crisis in 2026 is bewildering. I look around and see so many people that care so deeply about our ecological crisis - how can some be so disconnected? I've been growing frustrated. More and more I'm asking, how can we help facilitate reconnection with the earth, and each other, and everything we have to lose and gain? While looking for advice, I stumbled upon a book by...

Creative Climate Pedagogy with Taiji Nelson 25.01.2026 42:51

As a climate activist, I’m always thinking about how I should engage my peers with climate topics. You can’t spell doom and gloom, or folks will get scared and shut down. But you also can’t revise the inherently terrifying moment we’re in. The future of the climate movement rests in our ability to wrestle with this question… so I wanted to bring on someone who has been experimenting in this world...

The US Military & Climate Chaos with Lindsay Koshgarian 02.01.2026 41:48

There’s a lot of places to begin talking about climate chaos. The US military, the biggest institutional fossil fuel emitter in the world, might be a good place to start. Equipped with the largest peacetime budget it’s ever seen, the US military has amassed incredible power and influence… to do what, exactly? Today I sat down with Lindsay Koshgarian, executive director of National Priorities Proje...