Sustainababble
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276 episodes
#149: Naomi Oreskes meets Sustainababble
We chat to an actual proper Harvard Professor, blessed with a brain as large as her laugh. Author, activist and splendid person Naomi Oreskes - crusading scourge of Inhofes everywhere - tells us why we should trust science (spoiler: because it's s...
#148: Trees
When we go away the Amazon burns down, Boris Johnson becomes king, and London gets as hot as a farting hippo's bottom. Sorry about that. Now. Everyone's saying we need to plant more trees everywhere, which would be fine if we stopped torching and ...
#147: Cycling
Basically all of us learn to ride a bike, but vanishingly few grown-ups regularly cycle, especially in 'car is king' Blighty.So why is pootling around on two wheels such a niche pursuit, when the benefits and beneficiaries are so varied? And are c...
#146: Nature Crisis
Someone needs to tell the UN to stop writing reports on the state of the planet. Their latest lolzfest, hot on the heels of 2018's IPCC report (aka 'Seriously, climate change is awks'), says humans are threatening A MILLION species with extinction...
#145: Emergency
Heavens to betsy! The UK parliament has declared a 'Climate and Ecological Emergency'. Amazing, impressive, Extinction Rebellion-vindicating stuff. But, er, so what? And what now? And does it make those wonks telling the UK to eradicate (ish) emis...
#144: Fashion
Our clothes say a lot about who we are, but they also say "SCREW YOU, PLANET!" more often than not. Yup, clothes and fashion - like so many nice things - have some eye-watering environmental price tags.We peruse.Also this week, an update on the me...
#143: Glaciers
Glaciers are shrinking, which is not good. Not good for glaciers, not good for people who like sea levels just the way they are, and certainly not good for those keen to avoid literal AVALANCHES OF SHIT emerging from newly slushy ice.We pontificat...
#142: Right to Repair
You're probably listening to this podcast on a device that's deliberately designed to break in not very long and will be nigh on impossible to tinker with when it does.Gone are the days when a bit of blu-tack and a fair wind ensured your prized po...
#141: Clusterf**k
It's fair to say Brexit isn't going superbly. Recent goings on in the UK parliament have redefined the very notions of chaos, calamity and - yes - clusterf**kery.All very well, but it rather begs the question: if politicians can't sort out somethi...
#140: Recycling
Of the zillion eco topics we've covered on this podcast, none come any more 'I like to think I do my bit' than recycling. You know the drill:You: "GLOBAL CLIMATE BREAKDOWN INSECTAGEDDON AAARGGHH!"Your auntie: "Well darling, I always recycle my Dai...
#139: Birthstrike
Would you forgo having children because the future looks too bleak? A growing group of 'birthstrikers' have decided just that, speficially declaring "not to bear children due to the severity of the ecological crisis and the current inaction of gov...
#138: Hygiene
Are we too clean? Is Ol clean enough? Should we stop using bog roll to save the planet? All these - ahem - burning questions and others are answered in a hygiene special this week.
#137: Is Fracking Dead?
Despite years of effort, bottomless pockets, and unwavering state backing, there's still nothing resembling a fracking industry in the UK.And for Cuadrilla, INEOS & co, things have been getting worse of late - earthquakes, crappy test results, tro...
#136: School Strikes
Children, not thrilled about a dying planet and a compromised future, are rising up. In less than six months, one 15 year old's lone protest outside the Swedish parliament has snowballed into global classroom walk-outs.The #schoolstrike4climate's ...
#135: Asad Rehman meets Sustainababble
Asad is, according to his twitter bio, a "general activist against all bad things". And then some.Currently the Executive Director of anti poverty charity War on Want, for 10 years Asad led Friends of the Earth's international climate work, puttin...
#134: Green New Deal
A new band of young Americans is organising to get the planet out of a death spiral and give decent jobs to people in the process. Hooray!The central demand - a 'Green New Deal' - is as ambitious as anything Roosevelt came up with, and spearheaded...
#133: Caroline Lucas meets Sustainababble
Caroline Lucas - CAROLINE LUCAS! - is the UK's first and only Green MP, former party leader, former MEP, and pretty much the lone voice of sanity in any political debate.Oh and she got nicked for protesting fracking. And she wore a "No More Page ...
#132: Sustainabauble 2018
Deck the halls with boughs of Ollie! (And Dave). It's this year's Xmas Xtravaganza, and as always our sacks are bulging with ripest sustainababble.Turns out Baby Ol isn't getting any presents this year - particularly not bath salts. Whyever not? A...
#131: Molly Scott Cato meets Sustainababble
For the past 4 years Molly has been a Member of the European Parliament, from where she's championed all sorts of planet-saving causes. Now heavily involved in Extinction Rebellion, she's simultaneously breaking and making the law.We chat to Molly...
#130: Peat
Occasionally on fire and forever associated with the word "bog", peat is many things to many people.Gardeners guiltily sprinkle it on petunias, while tweedy gun people gad about on it shooting grouses in the face.To the boss of Heathrow, however, ...
#129: Climate Act
It's ten years since the UK passed a law compelling politicians to save the planet from a fiery death.Given recent news, you'd be forgiven for thinking that law - the Climate Change Act - has all the potency of a eunuch. But is that fair? Was the ...
#128: Extinction Rebellion
Climate protest has a new headline act, and its name is Extinction Rebellion. Seemingly from nowhere, ER is gathering attention and supporters at breakneck speed, and is unusually straightforward about the state we're in.Hanging a 'CLIMATE CHANGE ...
#127: Electric Cars
We hate to PLUG ourselves but in our opinion this is one of the best TORQUEs we've ever had: a GRIPping and wide-RANGEing chat about cars what run on batteries, not oil.While electric cars aren't a new thing, them not being a bit rubbish, frankly,...
