The Climate Imaginary: The Petroleum Papers — with Geoff Dembicki

On the fifth episode of our Below the Radar series: The Climate Imaginary, our host Am Johal is joined by investigative climate reporter and author, Geoff Dembicki. In this conversation, they discuss Geoff’s upbringing around the tar sands in Alberta, Canada and how that led to his journalistic focus on climate. Geoff talks about his books, Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change (2017) and The Petroleum Papers (2022), and shares some of his research around the climate disinformation campaigns conducted by Big Oil companies.

They also talk about the shift of climate denial from traditional news outlets to digital channels, as well as the work of youth activists to combat these narratives.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-climate-imaginary/196-geoff-dembicki.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/196-geoff-dembicki.html

Resources:
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change: https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-petroleum-papers
Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change: https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/are-we-screwed-9781632864819/
Geoff’s work in The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Bios/Geoff_Dembicki/
Geoff’s work in VICE: https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/geoff-dembicki

Bio:
Geoff Dembicki is an author and journalist whose work appears in VICE, The Tyee, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, and the Guardian. He is the author of The Petroleum Papers: Inside The Far Right Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate Change, published with Greystone Books. His book, Are We Screwed? How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change, won the 2017 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award and the 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. His magazine feature for Foreign Policy titled “The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China,” won the 2018 Energy of Words Media Contest. Dembicki lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Cite this episode:
Chicago Style

Dembicki, Geoff. “The Climate Imaginary: The Petroleum Papers — with Geoff Dembicki.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 29, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/the-climate-imaginary/196-geoff-dembicki.html.