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The right wing is heavily invested in the meat industry. After all, it has the essential components: dominance, violence, destruction of the planet. In his new provocative book: The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, The post Can One Have Meat and A Conscience Too? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Many still think “We don’t have to deal with it now,” but a new report from the Union of Concern Scientists is titled “Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience” for a reason. As co-author Dr. Rachel Cleetus explains on this show, The post In Our Climate Threat, There Are Opportunities appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The environmental movement is often derided as elitist. But as our guest Liza Featherstone of the New Republic and Jacobin magazines tells it, by planting wild miniforests there’s no such polarization. The ultra-rich may have their gated sanctuaries whereas miniforests The post Miniforests as a Joyous Part of Class War appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Another Earth Day has come and gone, and how are we doing? The 19th and 20th century systems of control of the earth have failed; there’s a connection between famines, global warming  and empire. Especially in the face of climate The post The Earth for Humanity: A How-To appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We’ve built all the dams we need and that nature can handle. Development in flood zones is still happening faster than more sustainable locations. In his new book; Seek Higher Ground, The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis, award The post Seek Higher Ground: The Laws of Nature are Not Optional appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The comfort of colonial powers relied on them not seeing the damage to exploited nations. So it is with mining and milling the uranium for nuclear power. Victims then as now are people without power, indigenous populations which are health The post Green? Not Hardly: Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist, and Ageist. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Fun attracts people but let’s face it: environmentalists tend to be a dour bunch. Saving the planet is serious stuff. Average working people can get turned off. But what about dark comedy? We’ve seen where it works. On this show The post Using Comedy to Fight Climate Change appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The right says let the market be in charge. Privatizing and commodifying our essential human needs is OK with them. Should we just accept the normalization of hundreds of millions of plastic bottles, for corproate controlled water that is no The post Is Water Not a Human Right? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Phoenix may not last another 25 years. Whole countries will collapse. The issue is elite control, and that was why earlier civilizations: Chaco canyon, the Mayan culture, and Viking Greenland collapsed; average people had no say. On this show Professor The post More Democracy Can Prevent Climate Collapse of Civilization appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It took a lot of persistent steady heavy lifting but New York State now has a new democratically run power authority. Instead of the traditional for-profit monopolies, the public good will determine a greener, less expensive supply of electricity. The post A Revolution in Public Power appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Our infrastructure is overloaded. It already can’t handle extreme weather and climate change is making it more frequent. We can’t keep sweeping it under the rug. On this show Steve Ellis, president of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, The post It’s Costing Taxpayers Billions. “Prespond” To Effects of Climate Change. appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy...

It’s a tale of fiction but in his new book Altar to an Erupting Sun well known activist and author Chuck Collins tells the story of the main character Rae Kelliher who, facing her own death, makes a bold, shocking, The post Seriously Radical Action To Defend the Earth appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The 19th and 20th century systems of control of the earth have failed; there’s a connection between famines and empire. Especially in the face of climate change, we have a lot to learn from indigenous and peasant systems; the idea The post The Earth for Humanity: A How-To appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The thousands of islands in the global south have been treated as toys by the western “civilizers.” Though they are responsible for less than 1% of greenhouse gas emissions, today their voices are not part of the conversation on dealing The post Sea Change: As Islands Sink, Will Communities Rise? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We finally get that can’t have infinite growth on our finite planet. The dominant western approach of treating the earth as our playground isn’t working anymore. It’s late but there are still real opportunities for a partnership between humans and The post I Want a Better Catastrophe! appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

From a vaunted Latin American “pink wave,” Colombia’s new president Gustavo Petro and vice president Francia Marquez realized that even with socialised profits, more extraction does not equal more wealth. In fact as the Insitute for Policy Studies’ John Feffer The post You’ll Never Guess Which Country is Leading the Green Wave appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy A...

We may accept today’s economic system as just part of the natural order; but in truth capitalism started with overt violence. Centuries later it has morphed into what our guest calls Mute Compulsion. And now here we are, faced with The post How Does an Economic System So Hostile to Life Endure for Centuries? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Fun attracts people but let’s face it: environmentalists tend to be a dour bunch. Saving the planet is after all serious stuff. Average working people can get turned off. But what about dark comedy? We’ve seen where it works. On The post Comedy To Fight Climate Change? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

From mere crisis to real emergency, one big political change in Brazil offers realistic hope for saving the planet. No exaggeration. On this show global south veteran journalist James North explains that implementation of new priorities, with a new president The post Lula: New Hope for a Habitable Earth? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

A crippling rail strike seems to have been averted. Barely. You and I may think of the railroads as ways to move freight, but as our guest today observes: “The railroad companies have been Wall Street’s plaything throughout their half-century The post Nationalize Railroads While There are Still Assets appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Politicians of both parties buy into American Exceptionalism. But what does it mean to the planet? On this show professor Aviva Chomsky sheds light on the aspects of exceptionalism we don’t want to see. Instead of a good life just The post The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The comfort of colonial powers relied on them not seeing the damage to exploited nations. So it is with mining and milling the uranium for nuclear power. Victims then as now are people without power, indigenous populations which are health The post Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist, and Ageist: You Gotta Listen appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Saving the planet is not just for hippies anymore. It’s good to remember that when the business community came out against the war in Vietnam, that was the tipping point. In his new book Climatenomics, Washington, Wall Street, and the The post Capitalism: Powerful Environmental Ally? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

There are concentric circles: innermost being the destruction of Ukraine. But the increased insecurity of so many essential factors as a result of the war is starting to disrupt and bring increased misery to the poor of the world. On The post The Worldwide Effects of the Ukraine War appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Do you buy into American Exceptionalism? Politicians of both parties do. But what does it mean to the planet? On this show professor Aviva Chomsky sheds light on the aspects of exceptionalism we don’t want to see. Technical tweaks alone The post The High Price of American Exceptionalism on the Earth appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .