The Last Fireflies

We are on the brick of irreversible climate disruptions if we don't make radical changes in the next 10-20 years. How do we organize for system change on this timescale? How do we navigate a movement ecology full of ideological and organisational divides, when there is no option to leave the table, to "fold"? How do we plan to actually win? We explore these questions with our guests from the colle...

You might have heard of the AMOC collapse, but what is it, exactly? How does it work, and what does the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation do? If it "collapses", what's it going to mean for you and the rest of the world? In this episode, Robi explains the functioning of the AMOC, while M. and Ani ask some basic physics questions. We learn about the AMOC weakening, as well as some of the i...

In this episode we dig deeper into the dynamics that cause the accelerated warming, by examining the rules and factors that govern the global tug-of-war between greenhouse gases and aerosols. On the way we learn about the notion of climate sensitivity and how the IPCC has been systematically underestimating and underplaying the risks that we face. In the Offering section we learn how to avoid bein...

How do activists organize in the biggest oil & gas exporting country in Europe? And do you know which one it is? In this [Campfire talk], Jonas from Extinction Rebellion will talk us through some of the specifics of the climate struggle in Norway, as well as present some big and small actions they did, some of them, with great results. You'll learn about how Norway distributes fossil fuel wealth d...

Why do we bother struggling against climate chaos? This thing is so huge and the worst of it will come after our lifetimes (maybe). In this episode of [Curious tendrils], we are exploring our feelings towards the close and far future. We think of squirrels who plan for their future by burying nuts and nurturing the forest. And we think of humans and what we've been doing for a long time: both buil...

In this [Campfire Talk] we delve deep into a difficult, but necessary subject: climate grief. Our guest today is Elisabeth Dimitras, a neurodivergent queer soul activist and founder of the online antispeciesist website Ethos & Empathy. Elisabeth is from Greece, but had to move to Sweden due to climate change. She'll tell us about her dreams, the story of her loss, what she learned about the mourni...

The rate of planetary warming seems to be increasing. This change has something to do with the Earth's albedo. Why is the planet darkening? And who is the "culprit" behind this acceleration? In this [Infospill], we explore one leading theory that has to do with aerosols and their cooling effect on climate. Later, in the [Offering], M. will share some thoughts on Earth's libido. Well, not exactly....

This episode is part of [Curious Tendrils] , a series of exploratory conversations about the questions we keep hearing around us, and the ones we're still learning how to hold. Today we ask ourselves: is urgency the spark that ignites climate action - or the flame that slowly burns us out? We discuss pros and cons of the climate emergency framework, looking at the current research. When "climte em...

Have you heard about accelerated warming? In this [Infospill] section we'll discuss James Hansen's research that has caused an uproar in the climate community, suggesting global heating has accelerated in trend. Unrelated to tipping points, this is a specific phenomenon that has to do with the cooling effect of aerosols, making everything infinitely worse... To make up for the grim news, in the [O...

In this [Campfire Talk] we speak with Dani, an artist-activist comrade who is part of the Artivist Network. We learn why it's important to plan our climate actions and protests also in a visually creative way and how the Artivist Network can help with that, exemplified through some amazing actions and installations that our guest helped co-create during COP30. The [How to] section describe in deta...

Over the eons, Earth's thermostat spent a lot of time stuck on either bone chilling cold or smothering hot saunas. If something pushes the climate out of one setting, it irreversibly wanders until reaching the other - there is no inbetween. You wouldn't know it, but we are currently living in the freezer. Humans evolved here and we find it quite pleasant and so do most species. Now, the fossil fue...

In this [Campfire Talk], you're dropped into the post-COVID lanscape of Polish grassroots activism, where our guest Nawi - an anti-gas campaigner - and her tight-knit crew of friends, known as bombelki, refused to settle for stagnation  and instead ignited a new rebellion against the fossil-fuel lobby's carefully crafted lies. This is a story of success that hasn't stopped unfolding - and one we c...

Is the planet's atmosphere like a boilling pot of stuff and are the Earth's possible states like two valleys connected by a hill? Welcome to an [Infospill] episode of weird metaphores trying to grasp the horrible truths of climate tipping points. "Grim" is our key word but do not despair! We still have a choice for which future we want. As an [Offering], we present to you the idea of the Climate C...

In our first [Campfire Talk] episode, Andrei, an ecology student and activist, shares his experience with studying firefly populations in Romania, where the lives of these diminishing groups of insects are especially understudied. You'll find out why they are having trouble surviving our current extractive era and also, what you can do about it, in our first [How to] segment! Timestamps  00:35 [Ca...

In the first [Infospill] episode we are going over a few main points of actuality – what is the current level of warming, what climate projections say about the future and why the IPCC is recklessly conservative in its recommendations. At the end, we have an [Offering] to consider where we can start from if we want to fight for a different world. Timestamps 00:50 [Intro] 02:40 [Infospill] 32:50 [O...

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