Extinction Rebellion Radio

The Ukraine war is increasingly intersecting with climate. The U.S. has asked Ukraine to stop bombing Russian oil so gasoline prices can stay low. It has also stopped enforcing restrictions on Russian oil exports. Meanwhile the $60 billion aid package is languishing amid Congressional gridlock (as of this recording on April 18, 2024), and we get into real talk about why that is and what could be d...

Welcome to a consciously multi-generational conversation with Lawrence MacDonald, author of the book Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomers Guide to Climate Action . We discuss how to plug into climate activism, and which forms of climate activism to plug into. It's pitched to older folks, but people who aren't seniors can use a lot of this advice as well. So what's the short answer to the que...

How do fossil fuel executives think? They know their business is responsible for mass murder, and they work hard to cover it up. They know exactly what they are doing. So what's going on up there? We offer some informed speculation, plus recent climate news.

For this episode, we explore why LGBT+ folks are at higher risk of climate death than straight folks, the risks women face in disasters, and why we shouldnt ignore silly arguments denying climate change.

People are always helping one another cope with troubles and shortages and disasters. When that assistance is organized as a collaborative exchange of help, it's sometimes called a "mutual aid society." As we increasingly get walloped by the climate crisis, we're going to need mutual aid societies more than ever before. For this episode, Jack Baldwin looks at one mutual aid society in Austin, Texa...

What point in history would you live in if you could choose any time? Martin Luther King’s answer was right now, ‘This moment.’ Alycee gives the same answer. With one guest from Italy and another from the United States, we offer a touch of qualified optimism after last week’s devastating episode.

Let's look back at the climate disasters of the last six months or so of 2023. There were many, and most of them were never covered in the U.S. mass media. Running through these disasters rapid fire will hopefully show how dire the climate crisis is--not years from now, not for the next century, not for our grandkids, but for us. Right now.

As recently as 2021, climate activists in the U.S. and U.K. received very lenient treatment from police and judges, even when they did civil disobedience. Why? Probably because visible climate activists are mostly white. But it also seemed like authorities in the global north just didn't want to crack down on this cause. Well, things have changed, and they've changed because climate activists have...

The war on Palestine is both a humanitarian disaster and a climate disaster. Every shell, every tank, every rocket burns emissions. And the humanitarian scale is beyond easy comprehension. Our entry point into this topic is Alycee's trajectory as a climate activist and writer, and how she got particularly interested in militarism as a neglected dimension of global heating. ( We took off for the ho...

From the United States to Tunisia, politicians are using climate migration to get votes. The Dutch election in November 2023 that saw a long-time Prime Minister make way for a far-right anti-Muslim radical was fundamentally about migration. And in the U.K., reality is stranger than fiction, as parliament supports a bill to mass-deport migrants to Rwanda. We wish we were joking.

COP 28, meeting right now, is the global fossil fuel conference masquerading as a climate change solution. We're talking about how COP 28 will of course solve all the world's problems and set the climate on a perfect trajectory with nothing to worry about afterwards—and why all that is not true.

We have passed the Paris climate targets. Entire months at a time are now more than 1.5C above historic norms. So are world leaders taking emergency measures? Nope. For this episode, we talk about rising temperatures and climate inaction.

Ecopsychology pursues mental and spiritual connectedness to earth, which is sorely lacking in our hyper digital capitalist world. This is well and good, but seems non-political. How can ecopsychology turn in a radical, political, decolonial direction? Adam Lobel has written and practiced for many years on this topic, and he is our guest this week.

The Statehouse Standout is a continuous protest in which climate activists stand outside the Massachusetts Capitol building during all business hours demanding no new fossil fuel infrastructure. We visit the scene and hear from three organizers, including how they do it and their meeting with the governor's climate chief.

This week our special guest comes all the way from Italy. Daniele Federico quit his corporate communications career to dedicate himself full time to climate awareness. He shares with us some insights into how to talk about climate, Italian politics, and what we might do individually and collectively. We talk about the rivers in Italy running low and what to do about this, his take on civil disobed...

In this episode, we look at a wacky plan that the White House is contemplating to inject sulfates into the upper atmosphere to cool the planet. As we're going to explain, nobody knows what side effects that might have or whether it would even work to cool the planet at all. First, we take a look at global leaders failing to agree, yet again, on measures to cut fossil fuels and we put that in conte...

The Degas 2 are two climate protesters who are facing severe charges and possibly many years in prison for smearing paint on the glass casing around a famous sculpture by Edgar Degas in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. We talk about this protest, the criminal charges, and some of the debates around this sort of activism with Mun Chong, a spokesperson from Extinction Rebellion New Yo...

Insurance might not seem like a sexy topic, but when you suddenly can't get any insurance because of...you know...global heating, it really gets your attention. We're going to talk about underground climate change. We'll look at the U.S. Senate and what it's doing, and we can barely contain our laughter about it.

Extinction Rebellion Boston is mounting an entire week of climate activism and community-building starting September 20. Even if you're not near Boston, or if you're finding this after the events have taken place, this is a model for ways you might build a community of resistance, across all different levels of intensity, back home.

There is plenty of talk about what to do to help the climate. But some of these measures are going to be more helpful than others. This is the third of an informal three-episode series in which we try to break up the doom and gloom with some discussion of what might help.

This is our second installment on climate crisis solutions. Yeah, we bring you alot of crisis news, so we owe you some talk of solutions. Not that we're solving the climate crisis with these episodes, but we can talk about some steps that are moving in the right direction, or might be moving in the right direction, or that someone says is the right direction and on closer examination it's more com...

For this first of three episodes, we discuss possible “solutions” that could potentially get us out of our climate crisis.

In this episode, we talk about the worldwide crises unleashed by global heating and our overdependence on fossil fuels. Also, longtime contributor Jack Baldwin pays tribute to Daniel Ellsberg, who later in his life of resistance spoke out about our climate crisis.

In this episode, we discuss the wildfires that are raging across Canada. Currently, there are 480 active fires and only a little over a half are under control. Since smoke makes a mockery of political borders, states like New York, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (to name a few) are choking and covered with ash. We speak with New York City resident Amy Hayes, who shares her experience living under orange...

In this episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio, longtime contributors Jack Baldwin and Zaida Belendez join us for a robust discussion of the film How to Blow up a Pipeline as well as the book upon which it is based. Take a listen!