Earth Riot Radio

The green spaces are supposed to be an escape to the natural world -- away from the physical environment of lies that pervades our life.  But the emissaries from Consumer World, unconsciously high from the 10,000 adverts that hit them daily, must control the non-human life forms that they claim are a danger.  They use the forests as an erotic destination that they saturate with their “very limited...

Rev. Billy talks with John R. Platt, editor of The Revelator and award-winning environmental journalist. John's work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species.

Follow this message and find out where it goes. The words are: “You are being poisoned. Mass death is accelerating from putting carbon in the atmosphere. You can no longer live your life as planned.” We follow this message as it enters the conscious life of billions of people.  It goes into the eyes and ears and brain several times a day. Whether the message is read or heard or seen on the screen,...

Rev. Billy talks with international peace activists Medea Benjamin & Tighe Barry, capable of four protests in a single day! Peacealujah!

We continue to pretend that the Earth is not a conscious force; that it is not creating the events of our lives -- from a baby's first breath to the melting of the Himalayas...   This is the reason that we are oblivious to the danger we are in. We can't image that the Earth is alive. We experience the natural world through the prism of our toxic dust and YouTube clips of lions devouring leopards....

Billy talks with Grammy nominated singer-songwriter (Wild Colonials, Telepopmusik) and sustainable fashion designer Angela McCluskey.

The planet is spinning toward extinction. We might survive if we learn how to spin with it. When a glacier the size of Manhattan melts and disappears, then we have to melt, too. There is no history that we know of to deal with what is happening. We can't even make the phrase "extinction" popular enough to help people steal it back from blockbuster films and video games. We have to try every dance,...

Down here in the land of everyday life, our sorrow is real. Our feelings today are for the Ukrainians, the bewildered children, the families on the highway to the border, and we are even mindful of the young Russian soldiers.  At Earth Riot Radio, we believe that the Earth is a living being with its with own feelings. Here on invasion day, we feel sorrow for all of life, and we wonder -- does the...

The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days. But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question "How will we survive" is bringing back the emotions of decency. Good people who...

Reverend Billy talks with celebrated environmental journalist and educator Andrew Revkin. As Founding Director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainability at Columbia University's Earth Institute., Revkin is also a lifelong musician and songwriter.

Every once in a while, activism for the Earth seems to go on pause.   And the Earth in its apocalypse project also slows down its breathing and looks at the valley.  There is a moment with no fires and floods… We are in that time now and we feel stranded with our activism.  We don’t know how to style our confrontation with the fossil-scape.  There are not many slow and long preparations now.  The...

This is the battle for OUR soul. We’re being pulled into the virtual world by billionaire brats who shout at us from their rockets on the edge of space. This is the Evolution Revolution!

The physical environment is -- to our jaw-dropping surprise -- a single conscious being, which is, eerily, calling us by name. But we are refusing to believe that there is a message in the fire and flood, the virus and drought. So far, we prefer the Big Lie -- like Trumpers, Consumers, or any super-stupid Chosen People.  How do we change?

Gratitude is a powerful thing -- a physical, practical part of being a revolutionary for the Earth. The emergency of the Earth gives us more and more to be grateful for.  Thank you for the Extinction, which teaches us what to do with the lives that we have left.  When we face a hard right fundamentalist, let’s be grateful that the Earth shows us the complexity of a forest, and the endless interdep...

In 2022, we will fully participate in Evolution, in which the Earth withdraws our super-predator star status, and proceeds to annihilate our personal identity. Well, that could happen. It's obvious, anyway, that Evolution will come in 2022 like the grim reaper in a lemon yellow bikini. 

The strongest revolution comes from love. Strategy, ideology, godliness, cleanliness… all those are way down the list. Gaia is giving us the virus because she loves us.

Downtown Manhattan’s last big green space for low-income families will soon be luxury towers. New York’s Mayor has used climate change rhetoric to do his dirty work. And now the courts support the violence against the trees. How do we protect nature, our children, and ourselves?  

Intolerance is in direct relationship to over-consumption and to the Earth's reaction to our attempt to consume all of life. The Earth's response is to save life, and so... We gotta boogie with the Sixth Extinction!

Take a walk in a beautiful forest. The dying and being born is so constant that the place is flickering. We are like that now. Death is a part of life. It's like the sound of skidding tires when you know you are in a car accident. There is something comforting in the inevitability of it. The thing that makes us angry is that a bunch of gas and oil yahoos are making millions of bucks a day and we c...

Jeff is the top emitter of CO2, and he likes the Glasgow agreement, which gives him more time for his waste. Kyle updates hate for the TikTok generation. Glasgow and Kenosha. Kenosha and Glasgow. The agreement to murder the big planetary way... and the agreement to murder your neighbor down the street. They leave us with the question, where is our love?

And now we're home. The two rock-n-roll busses full of 25 singers were like ecstatic think-tanks all through our 7 city tour of the UK.  What were we talking about?  Why, life during Extinction, of course.  And what form does our activism take when the Earth is pulling human society apart with this massive evolutionary change.  When in the USA people are blind to what is happening to them?  How do...

The Earth is very clear. All the religions have their year's end holy days but the Earth is telling all of us that we cannot kill others with our carbon heavy buying. Christmas presents are stuck in container ships. Macy's is going bankrupt. The Earth is doing this with fire and flood and virus. The Earth says: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY A GIFT TO GIVE A GIFT. Earthalujah! The Church of Stop Shopping...

Our failure to mount a strong resistance to the Citi and BP, Blackrock and Exxon, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase - needs to top the agenda.  This cannot continue because we won’t be able to continue….  26 times the international climate conference has met?  What if we stopped Big Oil in the early 90’s when it started? The fossil liars-in-suits will be negotiating their blah blah blah inside a secured bui...

"The Leader of the Environmental Movement Has a Brain" is a show from a year ago that we are returning to today. Last week was our 70th show, and here is the number 35 show for this week's broadcast. We are busy preparing for our songs and sermons for our EARTH RIOT TOUR of the UK and COP26 in Glasgow (we're sending two shows from the road - the tour is Nov 1 to the 12th...).  The nature of this t...

COP26 - we'll sing on the streets of Glasgow as if our songs will blow through the walls of police, as if the music will have a seat at the table of the billionaires as they refuse to stop their CO2 and methane. The Earth Movement has a move it must make very soon. We haven't created that galvanizing story for the Earth. Where is the concentrated drama? The Earth sends its super storms but still w...