44. George Monbiot on environmentalism and climate activism
Challenging Climate
English - March 05, 2024 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEarth Sciences Science Social Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.
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Related articles by Monbiot:
On the extreme wealthy, Here’s a question Cop28 won’t address: why are billionaires blocking action to save the planet?On climate and politics, The hard right and climate catastrophe are intimately linked. This is howOn UK climate politicsOn radical climate activism (and another one)