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The U.K. is on the brink of a multitude of crises. With soaring energy bills, rampant inflation the highest we've seen in 40 years and don't forget the hottest days since records began. Mix that in with sewage being pumped into our rivers and seas, and a prime ministerial race which is based on who can be the cruelest to the most deprived. Well, Enough is Enough. On today's show we...

The global economy is fundamentally intertwined with the environment and with that climate breakdown. Fastidious bankers, hedge fund managers and capitalists are on the case trying to tackle the end of the world with the only tools they know how to use, finance and profit. So what happens when models of extraction are used to fix models of extraction? This week on the show we are delighted to be j...

It's time to shirk off that waged labour, for at least a couple of days, and dive head first into a cool pool of climate fiction. On this first foray into a Summer Book Club our  Lucy Burke and friend of the pod Sam Knights , discuss their favourite climate reads of the summer and the political power that fantastic fiction can have on the world.  You'll find  all the books mentioned belo...

This week on our centenary! 100 episodes! We can't thank you all enough for supporting the show and listening to four Northerners (Alex is honorary) discuss and discover how we can make a Green New deal that could save humanity from fossil capitalism.  Onwards and upwards. This weeks episode is a corker. Cuba like all countries has to deal with the climate crisis . To add to that immense task...

It's been bloody hot,  so Andrew and Alex wanted to whinge about it and discuss the political ramifications of the heat wave. Could this be the turning point we need for zero carbon? Links Tory candidates make u-turn and back net zero Ads' article, 'Don't sing to your enemies', on our website Support the show

It's shaping up to be a hot strike summer with multiple trade unions looking to ballot their members on strikes in the coming months.  Thousands of people will be out on the street with their trade unions or with or social movements raising their voices against the litany of stupidity that is the UK government.   When it comes to getting out on the streets it's important to measure the e...

This week we are joined by Momentum co-chair Gaya Sriskanthan (@gayasktn).  We discuss the importance of joining class struggle with climate action,  what British environmentalists can learn from communities on the front line of climate breakdown and Momentum's new climate justice education program. Links Momentum Climate Justice education program First session from the program Momentum RMT p...

There's a heatwave happening in Europe so let's cool down this week by getting into some polar research and  understand how we know the climate is changing from one of the most inhospitable places on earth.  This week on the show we are joined by Dr. Peter Neff,(@icy_pete) assistant research professor at the University of Minnesota.  Peter is  a glaciologist and climate scientist working...

This episode was recorded the week before the Government's U-turn on a windfall tax. We are in the midst of a cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine rages on and as ever climate breakdown is in full swing. Wet bulb events in India and south Asia pull into stark relief the potential future for the rest of the world. At the same time, our current minister for industrial policy and energy, Kw...

It comes around quicker every year, it's only International Biodiversity Day! To celebrate our United Nations mandated holiday we are throwing off our slippers, getting out the trowels from the shed and heading out into the garden with the tour de force that is botanist Josh Styles (@joshual95).  Josh is a long time friend of the show and founder of the North West Rare Plants initiative. A pr...

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads is joined by Níall Glynn, founder of Working Class...

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads is joined by friend and hip hop artist Dan Marsden...

It's gonna take some big ideas and even bigger actions for humanity to swerve the 2°C warming climate catastrophe coming down the road. So this week we're taking half the world away. Joining us on the podcast are Drew Pendergrass ( @pendergrassdrew ) and Troy Vettese ( @TroyVettese ) the authors of "Half Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and...

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. So, each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads is joined by youth worker and community activi...

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads is joined by Khushi  Himatal who has recently join...

The big push by governments in the Global North for a move to electric vehicles (EVs) seems to be one of the central planks of the decarbonisation effort of capitalism. Rare earth minerals such as cobalt, lithium and nickel are strategic resources in this transition and play a huge part in the creation of EVs and the batteries that power them.  The Largest deposits of these elements can be found i...

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form.  Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads is joined by Jay Chambers, a friend of the family...

Our Ads in on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. This week Ads chats with an old Labour comrade Rebecca Pollitt....

With the UN IPCC Working Group 3 report coming out last week, and it explicitly saying economic growth will be a prevailing factor in burning the world into a crisp, it’s time to ask again: what are the alternatives? How do we build societies that don't have fossil-based growth at the heart of them? This week on the show we are joined by Timothée Parrique (@timparrique). Timothée's writi...

Our Ads in on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. So, each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival. We start the series by meeting Ad's cousin, John. This...

When it comes to getting around, we normally jump to the big topics: public transport, buses, trains, cars, ownership, low traffic neighbourhoods and so on. We spend a lot of time wondering what we should be using for transport over who is using it and how they can use it.  But disabled voices have been at the bottom of the list when it comes to many aspects of society and unfortunately tackling t...

It's Part 2 of our Local election week. In this episode we are meeting Green New Deal council candidates from outside of Greater Manchester and looking at the picture across these green and pleasant lands. On this show we are joined by Minesh Parekh (@min_esh) who is running in Crookes and Crosspool, Sheffield and  we are also joined by Matt Buckley (@_Matt_Buckley) running in Caversham Heigh...

With the local elections a little over a month away, we are dedicating an entire week, with two shows, meeting Labour for a Green New Deal candidates from around the country. We are finding out what a GND could mean for local communities even with a hostile government still in power and what tools councils have to tackle climate breakdown.  We are starting off at home with West Heywood candidate A...

As spring begins to bloom into life we're heading back into the garden to see how biodiversity, botany, and our green and pleasant land is vital in our fight against climate change. We are joined this week by Leif Bersweden. Leif is a Botanist, plant geneticist and writer who specialises in flora across the British Isles. Leif spent a year travelling the British Isles to discover how people a...

We have rebranded as GND Media! Head over to www.gndmedia.co.uk to see all the wonderful new stuff we are doing on there. Our first big project is our article series "Just as Well' that looks at what a Just Transitions will look like across the world. Friend of show and Eco Socialist Legend Max Ajl kicks off the series with looking at climate breakdown in Latin America and the Middle Eas...