Challenging Climate
Challenging Climate
✓

44. George Monbiot on environmentalism and climate activism

· show notes
00:48:28
Podcasts
RSS
Link

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

George Monbiot is a renowned British author, The Guardian Columnist and environmental activist. George is the author of more than a dozen books, the most recent of which is Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, and he was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2022. 

In this episode, we discuss topics of his insightful and provocative articles such as de-throning GDP, radical climate activism, the ‘wealth curse’ and contentious technologies such as nuclear energy, GMO and SRM.

Links:

Related articles by Monbiot:

Support the show

Subscribe for email updates

News
Politics
Earth Sciences
Social Sciences
Science
English
United States
Use API to fetch this episode in JSON

IN THIS EPISODE

Edit these tags

SHOW NOTES 🔗

00:00:22Intro and background
00:01:13How is the UK doing on environmental and climate policy?
00:04:38What does the UK need to change to do better?
00:11:41Climate activism: how far should activists go?
00:14:50Striving for a 'green world'
00:23:46Tricky technologies: GMOs
00:27:41Tricky technologies: Nuclear power
00:32:30Tricky technologies: SRM
00:34:45Is it wrong to tackle the symptoms rather than the root cause?
00:35:57Fetishization of economic growth
00:41:31The role of the ultra wealthy
00:44:51What gives you hope for the future?

TRANSCRIPT 🔗

Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript
Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds

SEARCH PAST EPISODES

Search past episodes of Challenging Climate.
Embed this search bar to your website

OTHER EPISODES IN THIS PODCAST

39. Greg Nemet on how solar became cheap (with Energy vs Climate)

39. Greg Nemet on how solar became cheap (with Energy vs Climate)

Today’s episode is brought to you in collaboration with our friends at the Energy vs Climate podcast. Energy vs Climate breaks down the trade-offs and hard truths of the energy transition in Alberta, Canada, and beyond with energy experts David Keith, Sara Hastings-Simon and Ed Whittingham.  In thi…
00:56:34
SHARE
SAVE
43. Janos Pasztor on global climate policy and geoengineering

43. Janos Pasztor on global climate policy and geoengineering

This episode’s guest is Janos Pasztor. He has four decades of work experience in the areas of energy, environment, climate change, and sustainable development, including roles as Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) and UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Ch…
00:51:04
SHARE
SAVE
41. David Keith on Climate Systems Engineering

41. David Keith on Climate Systems Engineering

David Keith is a Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and the Founding Faculty Director of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative. Keith previously led the development of Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program.In this episode, we discuss Keit…
00:43:01
SHARE
SAVE
42. David Stainforth on climate models and uncertainty

42. David Stainforth on climate models and uncertainty

David Stainforth is a Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. David has had a long career studying the climate problem and the challenges of making predictions of future climate change. His research spans the philosophy of climate science, climate economics, climate modellin…
00:42:14
SHARE
SAVE
40. Jennifer Allan on global climate governance and the COP28 agenda

40. Jennifer Allan on global climate governance and the COP28 agenda

Jennifer Allan is a Strategic Adviser and Team Leader with Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and Lecturer at Cardiff University. Jen has attended roughly 40 UN conferences where states negotiate the rules of global climate governance. Her work explores how global rules are made and remade, and currently…
00:52:29
SHARE
SAVE
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jesse Reynolds and Pete Irvine , which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PROMOTED
Listen411.com: Lightning-fast Podcast Transcription and Summarization. Transcribe 1-hour audio in under 1 minute. Pay-as-you-go.
Listen411.com: Lightning-fast Podcast Transcription and Summarization. Transcribe 1-hour audio in under 1 minute. Pay-as-you-go.
Audio to Text

RECOMMENDATIONS
Use API to fetch this episode