Extinction Rebellion Radio

In this episode, we discuss Uvalde, Buffalo, and ecofascism, as well as the recent agreement between the United States and Germany to deepen their cooperation on shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. (Broadcast on May 31, 2022)

This week we wrap up our exploration of the ways "national security" impacts our climate crisis. For this show, Basav Sen joins us to answer the question, “is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier?” Basav Sen is Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies. [Broadcast on May 10, 2022]

After a long COVID hiatus, Extinction Rebellion in New York City and elsewhere came back strong this Spring, engaging in blockades and other acts of civil disobedience. And on Earth Day in every part of the country, people rose up to protest climate inaction. [Broadcast on May 3, 2022]

Continuing to flip the script on the Pentagon mantra that climate change is a national security threat and a “threat multiplier,” we again ask “is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier?” For this episode, we hear from Claire Nelson, who answers the question from a Caribbean perspective. Claire is CEO & Ideation Leader for The Futures Forum, and member...

In this episode, Jack Baldwin and Matthew Kearney offer their rebellions take on Don't Look Up, a film widely viewed as an allegory for the climate crisis and a satire on climate inaction. [Broadcast on April 5, 2022]

There are quite a few climate activists, most notably Dr. James Hansen, who advocate for nuclear power as a viable solution to the climate crisis. In this interview with Mari Inoue of the group The Manhattan Project, we hear the other side of the debate, as Ms. Inoue argues the case against nuclear energy. This is the first of a projected two-part series on the nuclear issue. [Broadcast on March 2...

Everyone in the world is talking about Ukraine and so are we, for the climate crisis is fundamental both to Russia's war on Ukraine and to NATO's power plays. What is unfolding in Europe at this crucial moment is a harbinger of western climate conflicts to come.

You've heard the mantra before: climate change is a threat multiplier. But do we have it backwards? Is the national security framework within which we operate a climate crisis multiplier? For the next few episodes of our militarism and climate crisis series, we pose this question to a number of people, the first of whom is John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Polic...

In this episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio (broadcast on February 22, 2022), we give the floor to Allen McGonagill, member of the Strategy Working Group for XR Boston. Allen explains uninterrupted the rationale behind XR's use of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance, which we then converse with him about in the show that follows.

In this episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio (broadcast on March 1, 2022), we discuss with Allen McGonagill XR's use of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance. Allen is a member of the Strategy Working Group for XR Boston, who on the last episode presented uninterrupted the rationale behind XR's strategy and tactics.

Although it has faded from public attention, COP26 was a fiasco we must not forget. In this episode, we take an even deeper dive into the empty promises dressed up as government action on our climate crisis.

For this episode, we continue our series on the climate crisis and militarism. Our subject this week: the intersection of national security and climate change. For this topic, we return to an interview we conducted with Professor Neta Crawford, Chair of Political Science at Boston University, and Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown and Boston Universities. Also this week: the Ukraine...

For this episode, we continue our series on the climate crisis and militarism. Our subject this week: the intersection of national security and climate change. For this topic, we return to an interview we conducted with Professor Neta Crawford, Chair of Political Science at Boston University, and Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown and Boston Universities. Also this week: the Ukraine...

For this episode, we take a deep dive into President Biden’s Build Back Better Act and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s refusal to support it. Also this week: smog in India, and building a Bitcoin city in El Salvador. [Aired January 18, 2022]

For this episode, we take a deep dive into President Biden’s Build Back Better Act and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s refusal to support it. Also this week: smog in India, and building a Bitcoin city in El Salvador. [Aired January 18, 2022]

For this episode, we continue our conversation with Shooka Bidarian about the impact of the climate crisis on Iran. Shooka is environmental correspondent for Marjan Television, a Farsi-language network that is based outside of Iran. We then discuss Big Oil’s “disinformation campaign to prevent climate action,” and British Columbia’s November 2021 mega storm – a storm Rob Fleming (British Columbia’...

For this episode, we continue our conversation with Shooka Bidarian about the impact of the climate crisis on Iran. Shooka is environmental correspondent for Marjan Television, a Farsi-language network that is based outside of Iran. We then discuss Big Oil’s “disinformation campaign to prevent climate action,” and British Columbia’s November 2021 mega storm – a storm Rob Fleming (British Columbia’...

In this episode (Part II), Shooka Bidarian joins Matthew Kearney and Alycee Lane to discuss the effects of global heating on Iran. Environmental Correspondent for Marjan Television – a Farsi language TV network based in London – Shooka recently received the Alfredo Circus Memorial Green Ring Award for her journalism on our climate crisis.

In this episode (Part I), Shooka Bidarian joins Matthew Kearney and Alycee Lane to discuss the effects of global heating on Iran. Environmental Correspondent for Marjan Television – a Farsi language TV network based in London – Shooka recently received the Alfredo Circus Memorial Green Ring Award for her journalism on our climate crisis.

Continuing our series on militarism and our climate crisis, this week we speak with Lorah Steichen about the intersection of militarism, climate change and immigration. Steichen is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a project that produces research and analysis on the federal budget and militarized spending. She is also co-author of “N...

Continuing our series on militarism and our climate crisis, this week we speak with Lorah Steichen about the intersection of militarism, climate change and immigration. Steichen is the Outreach Coordinator for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a project that produces research and analysis on the federal budget and militarized spending. She is also co-author of “N...

In this second installment of a two-part episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio, Matthew Kearny and Alycee Lane discuss the empty promises of COP 26. Governments from around the world gathered in Glasgow to perform a ritual of talking about climate change while doing absolutely nothing to halt our unfolding climate crisis. As the world faces increasing climate catastrophes that displace millions, t...

In this first installment of a two-part episode of Extinction Rebellion Radio, Matthew Kearny and Alycee Lane discuss the empty promises of COP 26. Governments from around the world gathered in Glasgow to perform a ritual of talking about climate change while doing absolutely nothing to halt our unfolding climate crisis. As the world faces increasing climate catastrophes that displace millions, th...

What if our longest war - the global war on terror that began in 2001- was a climate change disaster? This question we explore with the help of Professor Neta Crawford, Chair of Political Science at Boston University, and Co-Director of the Costs of War Project at Brown and Boston Universities. Through her research of military emissions, Professor Crawford found that throughout our “longest war,”...

In this first episode of an occasional series on how climate change impacts regions around the world, we speak with Dr. Rovshan Abbasov about the impact of climate change on Azerbaian. Dr. Rovshan Abbasov is head of the United Nations water management program in Azerbaian and professor at a university in Baku. (Originally broadcast on 8/31/2021)