ClimateGenn hosted by Nick Breeze
137 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -Interviews with environmental / climate change experts discussing the choices we collectively face in determining what future we will shape for ourselves, future generations, and all other life within the biosphere.
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… the situation is a little bit frightening! Kelly Wanser, Silver Lining Institute: climate modelling, interventions, and unlocking global south talent “quickly”
August 25, 2022 16:43 - 38 minutes - 71.3 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode I speak to Silver Lining Institute Executive Director, Kelly Wanser about the urgent need to invest billions of dollars into expanding our global coverage of climate modelling capacity. [Support this channel on https://patreon.com/genncc] The worsening risks we face mean climate interventions to cool the planet are back in discussion in the corridors of power. We discuss the hold ups and the necessity for research that could give all of us a clear idea as to whe...
Ep 04 - Helena Ferreira | Adega De Borba, where Sustainability equals survival
August 06, 2022 21:18 - 15 minutes - 28 MBDuring my trip across Alentejo, it was a pleasure to visit the cooperative Adega de Borba. Winemaking in and around Borba has a long pedigree and is even mentioned in ‘Murray’s handbook to Travels in Portugal’, published in 1864, with reference to ‘A considerable quantity of wine is produced at Borba..’ View more at https://genn.cc/alentejo And so it is to this day with Borba producing around 10 million bottles per year. The co-op is also renowned for its quality with their very popular A...
Maladaptation - Dr Lisa Schipper - Perils of Bad Climate Adaptation
August 05, 2022 23:00 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, we are discussing the risk of maladaptation that can seriously undermine our efforts to tackle the climate challenges we know are coming towards us. [Support this channel via https://patreon.com/genncc & get new episodes early + visit https://genn.cc for more information Dr Lisa Schipper is an Environmental Social Science Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford whose work focuses on adaptation to climate change in deve...
Ep 3: Herdade de Mouchão, Biodiversity, Terroir, A Scorching Climate And Struggle for Sustainability
July 31, 2022 10:15 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this Alentejo Wines episode, I am speaking to Iain Richardson, from the wine estate, Mouchão. [View more on https://genn.cc and support this channel on https://patreon.com/genncc] Mouchão is a great example of an integrated estate in Alentejo where different flora and fauna are interwoven to create the whole. The Sobreiro, or cork oak trees, are an integral part of the history of this region and yet, as Iain tells us, climate is one of the drivers that is causing a substantial die-off ...
IS US CONGRESS A GLOBAL CLIMATE SECURITY THREAT? Interview with Lieutenant General Norman Seip (Ret)
July 28, 2022 21:45 - 14 minutes - 25.9 MBVisit https://patreon.com/genncc or https://genn.cc In this ClimateGenn episode, I speak with Lieutenant General Norman Seip, the President of the American Security Project, about the urgency for the US Senate to stop playing dice with the global climate and vote through policy that will steer America back on course to being a nation worthy of respect. Ever since President George Bush Senior declared the American Way of Life is not up for negotiation, the United States has stood in the way ...
Episode 2 - DR Greg Jones, Climate Science And Wine
July 23, 2022 06:57 - 14 minutes - 27.9 MBGet episodes early by supporting via Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc full transcript at https://Genn.cc Nick Breeze, Dr Greg V Jones In the second episode of the Alentejo climate and sustainability series, I'm speaking with winemaker and climate scientist Dr. Greg Jones, who has co-authored climate and wine research papers looking at the vulnerability of certain regions to climate change. One, in particular, that is relevant to this series titled 'Climate Change & Global Wine Quality',...
Exposing London's Dirty Business | Fossil Free London
July 21, 2022 09:50 - 19 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Fossil Free London activist Nuri Syed Corser about their focussed activism targeting the biggest polluters operating in the UK’s capital. [Get more early by supporting on https://patreon.com/genncc or follow on https://genn.cc] At a time when the UK is reeling from extreme heatwaves, the government are holding back on renewable energy projects and backing fossil fuel investments that will please their backers and make the climate problem much, much ...
Sustainability And Wine In Alentejo, S Portugal - Episode 1, an introduction
July 13, 2022 17:13 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBAs Part of the Climate Genn podcast, I am publishing concurrently with my normal interviews, a series within a series every week for the next 8 weeks called Sustainability & Wine in Alentejo, Portugal’s largest and most climate vulnerable region. This series is part of a larger project commissioned by the Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Programme with whom I have been collaborating for the past year. Find out more at https://genn.cc Alentejo Episodes to be released 1 per week for 8 weeks:...
Why are climate scientists getting arrested? Dr Stuart Capstick discusses the upside and downside of direct action.
July 12, 2022 23:09 - 26 minutes - 50.1 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking to climate psychologist and Deputy Director and theme lead for the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST Centre) Dr Stuart Capstick from Cardiff University about why scientists who research aspects of climate change are deciding to protest in public, and in some cases getting arrested. Get episodes early and access additional content - https://patreon.com/genncc We discuss the role of scientists in society as a group that have ...
Sunny Morgan: Cancel the debt... take your knee off the neck of the Global South!
June 20, 2022 19:49 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with Sunny Morgan in South Africa about the Debt for Climate Campaign that is calling for the global north to cancel the debts of the global south, which are both crippling the economies in developing nations and financing huge fossil fuel projects that we desperately need to get rid of. [Support the work of ClimateGenn] Sunny outlines how these institutions work with corporations to lock in hugely destructive projects that are destroying natural ...
Dr John B Cobb | Living Earth Movement to unite China and the US for climate and ecology
June 15, 2022 12:06 - 29 minutes - 55 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with the theologian, environmentalist and philosopher, and author of over 50 books, Dr John B Cobb, about his efforts to bring into being a Living Earth Movement. [Join ClimateGenn for early episodes + extra climate focussed content] The Living Earth Movement asks us all to look at how we can reshape humanity to act as part of the ecosphere and not against it. A major part of John’s mission is to call on the US and China to stop competing and star...
Prof Kevin Anderson |Worst of both worlds - dire impacts + less carbon budget
June 05, 2022 07:42 - 46 minutes - 86.8 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with professor Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Centre at Manchester University. [Support this channel and access episodes early with additional content segments, articles, etc - https://patreon.com/genncc ] This is a longer interview with many, I believe, crucial points for consideration. We discuss our current usage of the available carbon budget for 1.5ºCelsius at just under 1% per month. Also the dangerous and foolish behaviour of UK Secretar...
No. 1 Climate vulnerable wine region, Alentejo in S Portugal, focuses on true sustainability & regenerative agriculture
June 02, 2022 06:26 - 13 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am introducing Alentejo in Southern Portugal, declared in 2005 as one of the most climate-vulnerable wine regions in the world. The Alentejo region has been seeing temperatures rise and drought conditions intensify as rain patterns become more erratic and extreme. [Please support this channel on https://Patreon.com/genncc] In June I will be releasing a series of 9 recordings from my visit and interviews with producers and members of the Wines of Alentejo Sust...
Sir David King on Heatwaves, Action, and Activism: "No one will escape.."
May 21, 2022 22:49 - 25 minutes - 46.8 MBThe current heatwave in India and Pakistan sets the scene for this ClimateGenn episode, speaking with Climate Crisis Advisory Group Chair, Professor Sir David King about their new report on what we must do to have the best chance of averting climate and ecological collapse. [Support this work and listen/watch episodes early by backing on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc Sir David makes it very clear that nobody will escape these impacts as the climate emergency worsens and what we are s...
Dr Delton Chen | Ministry For A Living System Economy
May 10, 2022 10:48 - 32 minutes - 61 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode I speak with Dr Delton Chen, the originator of the ‘Chen Paper’ concept made famous by Kim Stanley Robinson in his book, Ministry For The Future. Delton is an engineer by training but has take almost a decade out to study economics to see if his Carbon Reward Coin concept, the idea of a reward for mitigating carbon, could provide the missing link needed to rebalance the human economy. Support ClimateGenn on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc The Global Rewar...
Dr Paul Behrens - Food Security In A Vulnerable World
April 14, 2022 12:48 - 29 minutes - 54.4 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with Dr Paul Behrens about how the global food system is vulnerable to the domino effects that arise from conflict, climate impacts and other pressures. Please support this channel via Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc or follow via: https://genn.cc Over 70% of land use on the planet is given over to animal agriculture and vast amounts of plant-based crops are being used to feed that livestock, we are emitting vastly more carbon than we need and...
Stemming The Rise Of Ecofascism with Sam Moore & Alex Roberts
March 31, 2022 15:19 - 27 minutes - 51.8 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking to authors, podcasters, and activists, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts whose recently published book, The Rise Of Ecofascism, explores the characteristics of past, present, and potentially future ‘ecofascism’. The risks posed to society from extreme politics on the right and the left has been rising in recent years. Even in the last week or so, a cache of information was leaked via the Anonymous hacking group linking Putin’s regime to the financing of f...
David Spratt | Cascading Tipping Points & Existential Risk Management
March 19, 2022 07:33 - 23 minutes - 42.9 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode I am speaking with Research Director of the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Melbourne, David Spratt, about assessing climate risk and why incremental tweaks to reduce emissions are failing us. [Please support httpss://genn.cc via https://patreon.com/genncc We also discuss IPCC forecasts, political failure, and how change is possible but it requires a huge mobilisation of resources, coupled with public and political participation and leade...
Dr James Hansen | A decade old and fresh as hell
March 13, 2022 20:29 - 20 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this ClimateGenn special episode, I publishing my first interview with Dr Jim Hansen who was at the time Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. This was recorded in 2012 at the European Geophysical Union, the annual conference that takes place every year in Vienna. Please support at https://patreon.com/genncc or follow on https://genn.cc. In recent weeks I have exchanged emails again with Dr Hansen to discuss his recent work that has a working title of ‘The Big Climate ...
Sir Tim Smit | Eden Projects for the future (come the revolution!)
February 25, 2022 14:29 - 43 minutes - 81 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with Eden Project founder, Sir Tim Smit about the stories that need to be told to create the future we want to have. Please consider supporting this work via a small subscription via https://patreon.com/genncc Sir Tim sees the now as a moment of great revolution that is emerging from what he calls the new green enlightenment. With world leaders of low-calibre and backward thinking, it is right to ask from whence will these great game-changers emer...
Dr Min Hee Go | Rethinking Community Resilience after Climate Catastrophe
February 18, 2022 18:55 - 20 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this episode of ClimateGenn I am speaking with Dr Minnie Go about her recent book ‘Rethinking Community Resilience’ looking in detail at how the city of New Orleans emerged from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Support ClimateGenn on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc and visit our website at https://genn.cc Minnie’s work looks at how the dynamics between civic groups and governing bodies can determine very different outcomes. Distrust of government by those most impacted communi...
Population, Consumption & Climate Change | Dr Paul Behrens
February 07, 2022 11:42 - 28 minutes - 52.7 MBIn this episode of ClimateGenn I am speaking to Dr Paul Behrens about the complexity of population, consumption and climate change. Support this channel on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc (website: https://genn.cc) In his book, ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of Times’ Paul addresses population, presenting both a pessimistic potential outcome, and also a more hopeful outcome based on a set of choices that we, especially those of us in wealthier high emitting countries, can make to improv...
Professor Katharine Hayhoe: [Who Is] Saving Us[?] - ClimateGenn Podcast
January 19, 2022 20:19 - 24 minutes - 45.3 MBPlease do subscribe on https://genn.cc and be sure to comment or send me your feedback by email. You can also support this series via https://patreon.com/genncc. In this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking to author and chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy, Professor Katharine Hayhoe about how her recent book ‘Saving Us’ addresses issues relating to personal agency. 2022 has advanced out of the gate with threats of war, massive volcanic eruptions, economic and political upheavals,...
MEER | Mirrors For earth’s Energy Rebalancing with Dr Ye Tao at Harvard University
January 01, 2022 20:06 - 22 minutes - 42 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I speak to Dr Ye Tao at Harvard University who is head of the Mirrors for Earth Energy Rebalancing (MEER). You can follow/support/get in touch via https://genn.cc + back via https://patreon.com/genncc Addressing climate threats With global agriculture across the world at high risk from rising temperatures and associated impacts, Ye’s team are proposing increasing the Earth’s reflectivity in order to reduce the temperature within the biosphere. In this intervi...
Dr Tero Mustonen | Cascading Arctic Changes will create new planet soon
December 23, 2021 13:13 - 37 minutes - 69.5 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking Dr Tero Mustonen who is based within the Arctic Circle about the enormous changes happening there today and that are going to cascade across the globe impacting every one of us. Follow and support at: https://genn.cc and https://patreon.com/genncc Tero works with indigenous peoples inside the Arctic Circle and beyond, utilising what is called Traditional Knowledge Systems that include the linguistic, cultural and natural environments that are comp...
Author Tom Rosenstiel Discusses New Political Climate Thriller: The Days To Come
December 12, 2021 21:44 - 30 minutes - 56.4 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with author Tom Rosenstiel about his new political thriller, The Days To Come. Tom has switched hats from journalist to fiction writer, possessing a depth of insight into how both disciplines interact with the public and our experience of reality? Please visit https://genn.cc for series information, or https://patreon.com/genncc to support my work. The Days To Come is a thriller with a climate change theme that touches on many of the complex facto...
Prof. Peter Wadhams | Can we remove billions of tonnes of CO2? And methane?
December 08, 2021 10:57 - 34 minutes - 63.8 MBIn this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking to professor Peter Wadhams from the University of Cambridge about his recent research for a book he is writing on the viability of greenhouse gas removal from the atmosphere. Subscribe at https://Patreon.com/genncc Visit https://genn.cc for more information. Some of these proposals are also referred to as negative emissions technologies, or ‘nets’ and are widely included in national emissions reduction plans despite none being proven at scale...
Secretariat Susie Townend: Scotland’s Climate Assembly informs both people & policy
December 01, 2021 08:10 - 20 minutes - 37.6 MBPolitical elites in the UK have never looked more out of touch than they do today. Despite this, in Scotland, we see a Climate Citizens Assembly that is working with experts to come up with ideas for achieving a lower carbon, cleaner and fairer society. back my work and access more content at https://patreon.com/genncc and https://genn.cc In this episode, I am speaking with the Secretariat of the Scottish Climate Assembly, Susie Townend, who has overseen the creation of the first report to...
Dr Saleemul Huq | "Vulnerable Countries Left Glasgow with Tears In Their Eyes"
November 25, 2021 20:59 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBIn this ClimateGenn podcast episode, I am speaking to Dr Saleemul Huq about the true outcome of COP26 highlighting how the UK Presidency abandoned the world's most vulnerable nations in order to tow the line of the USA. Follow on https://genn.cc | Become a Patron at https://patreon.com/genncc Saleem also makes it clear that 1.1ºC, where we are today, is the new 1.5ºC - climate impacts are here and they are devastating lives and also taking lives. We must stop thinking about climate action ...
Dr Paul Behrens New Book: Best of Times, Worst of Times | Choosing The Future We [don't] want
November 23, 2021 22:01 - 30 minutes - 55.6 MBIn this episode, recorded in Glasgow, I speak to Dr Paul Behrens from Leiden University about how, regardless of what choices we make, humanity is now committed to passing through the eye of the metaphorical needle. What we can expect on the other side may well be in our gift to decide but with each strike of the clock, the forecasts for humanity get bleaker. In his new book, ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of Times’, Paul presents realistic outcomes based on the best case and worst-case sce...
COP26 Wrap Up | Is the process for purpose? Sir David King & Professor Kevin Anderson
November 22, 2021 16:29 - 26 minutes - 49.6 MBIn this special podcast edition, I have combined the two interviews with Sir David King and Professor Kevin Anderson to create a wrap-up commentary on the COP that I think is insightful and multifaceted. https://patreon.com/genncc | https://genn.cc | genn.cc/yt Both interviewees come with a wealth of insight and experience and whether you agree or disagree with what they say, there is no doubt that both scientists force us to think deeply about the way forward from this crisis point in the...
COP26 Notes: Adaptation Panel with F4F Jakapita Kandanga, Prof Alice Hill, Prof Kevin Anderson, Prof Sir Kavid King
November 21, 2021 22:58 - 1 hour - 151 MBWelcome to the shortened edit of the Adaptation panel that I moderated during COP26 in Glasgow with Pooran Desai. Main links: gene.cc + patron.com/genncc + https://www.youtube.com/c/NickBreeze/videos On the panel we had Professor Alice Hill and Professor Sir David King, as well Namibian ‘Fridays 4 Future’ Activist Jakapita Kandanga, as well as Professor Kevin Anderson. In this session we are focussed largely on the UK, USA and Namibia and delve into the complexity of social change, educat...
Professor Jason Box Addendum: How is Denmark doing on its climate pledges?
November 17, 2021 19:59 - 8 minutes - 15.9 MBAfter filming the Greenland interview on the Denamrk pavilion in the Blue Zone at COP26, we recorded this short segment on Jason's view on how Denmark, his adopted country, is doing on their climate pledges. Follow my work in more detail at https://genn.cc or support my work (and stay up to date on https://patron.com/genncc
COP26 NOTEBOOK | The Threat of Ice | Prof's Box, Bamber & Huss
November 16, 2021 15:57 - 34 minutes - 63.9 MBIn this miniseries of podcasts, I am uploading a selection of the recordings that I took from COP26 starting with this one with 3 ice scientists, Professor Jonathan Bamber, Professor Jason Box, and Professor Matthias Huss. LINKS: https://genn.cc | Patreon for support: https://patreon.com/genncc | Twitter: @ClimateGenn + @NickGBreeze The Cryosphere pavilion in the blue zone at the COP provided the context I needed to be able to understand whether the word ‘Ambition’ truly correlated to the ...
Inside COP26Glasgow; is this the ambition needed to avert disaster? Nick Breeze with Prof's Kevin Anderson & Jonathan Bamber
November 04, 2021 13:19 - 19 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I am inside the COP attending talks and speaking mainly to scientists but also half listening to the pledges and commitments being made. What is striking is the sense of foreboding from people who have followed these negotiations for many years. Contents: 00:00 Intro by Nick Breeze 01:00 John Kerry speaking to C40 mayors 01:23 Professor Richard Bamba (excerpt) 02:09 Kevin Anderson discussing ‘inside the cop’ The noise of the globetrotting politica...
Professor Rupert Read | Denial On Trial & What To Do When The COP fails
October 28, 2021 20:31 - 17 minutes - 32.1 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking to professor Rupert Read on the eve of his trial that has since taken place resulting in a guilty verdict and a very modest fine handed down. Links: Live Event 8 Nov '21 in Glasgow https://youtu.be/ItixWfasssk - Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc My site: https://genn.cc Here we discuss the role of disinformation organisations like the Global Warming Policy Foundation who have spent the last decade denying the threat that climate change...
Professor Kevin Anderson: “To hell in a hand cart”
October 01, 2021 12:03 - 28 minutes - 53.8 MBIn the run-up to COP26 we face a new onslaught of mainstream media coverage of how this conference will decide the fate of humanity. The truth is that even the best outcome being sought by policymakers is far short of what the science tells us is needed to stabilise the global climate. Since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, where the accelerating decline of planetary systems was acknowledged and leaders expressed the need for change, nothing has been achieved to stop the catastrophic circumsta...
Saleemul Huq | “We have crossed a climate threshold” | ADAPT NOW
September 10, 2021 14:38 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBSupport channel on: https://patreon.com/genncc or visit: https://genn.cc Dr Saleemul Huq is a highly respected climate scientist from Bangladesh who has worked for decades to progress the safety of the most vulnerable people up the climate policymaking agenda. Traditionally the most vulnerable people have been from places like Saleem's own country, Bangladesh, but in this interview, he stresses that we have crossed a new threshold. What we have been seeing in the US and Northern Europe cl...
Climate Famine In S. Madagascar | "...a crisis that should not happen!"
September 02, 2021 09:10 - 12 minutes - 22.6 MBSupport this Podcast via Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc or visit main site at https://genn.cc Support the work of the World Food Programme on the ground: click here In this special episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with Menghestab Haile, Regional Director for the World Food Programme in Southern Africa, In particular, we are discussing the climate driven drought in southern Madagascar that has over 1 million people on the brink of starvation, including many children in a st...
Alice Hill | Adaptation Critical To Our Global Climate Preparedness Strategy
August 24, 2021 20:30 - 35 minutes - 64.9 MBPlease visit https://genn.cc for more content or support my work via https://patreon.com/genncc In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with Alice Hill who was Special Assistant to President Obama at the White House and Senior Director for Resilience Policy at the National Security Council, working on climate change and pandemic preparedness. In her new book, ‘The Fight For Climate After COVID-19’, to be published on the 5th September, Alice makes the case for why it is impera...
How Climate Change Intersects With Global Security | Dr Chad Briggs
August 16, 2021 18:28 - 23 minutes - 44.2 MBVisit: https://genn.cc for more information or https://patreon.com/genncc Contents with Timestamps Hybrid Warfare 01:35 Resilience targeting 4:35 Politics, economics and fossil fuel interests 5:30 Sources of disinformation are a national security threat 8:00 Cyber Aggression 9:00 Climate migrants and nationalist politics 10:30 Tackling societal breakdown due to climate resilience failure at source 12:40 Local knowledge versus models and remote assessments CUT Dependency on fossil f...
Centre For Climate Repair Cambridge, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE | Flipping buildings from carbon source to sink
August 03, 2021 12:39 - 17 minutes - 31.8 MBBack on Patreon: https://patreon.com/genncc Visit website: https://genn.cc Centre for Climate Repair: https://www.climaterepair.eng.cam.ac.uk/ In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with the Director of the Centre for Climate Repair in Cambridge, Dr Shaun Fitzgerald about how buildings can be adapted for climate resilience and the potential for flipping them from carbon sources to carbon sinks. With many of the world's largest future cities yet to be built and much of the e...
Arctic Briefing | Sir David King Interview | Climate Crisis Advisory Group
July 30, 2021 14:13 - 27 minutes - 50.7 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with former UK Government Chief Science Advisor, Sir David King. Sir David has recently set up the Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) to respond with agility to the real-time climate crisis. The first report is linked in the notes and focuses on the Arctic as a key regulator of global climate stability and more recently, chaotic disruption. Please consider supporting this work at: https://patreon.com/genncc and subscribing at https://g...
Facing The Future | Climate Psychology + Deep Adaptation
July 27, 2021 21:41 - 24 minutes - 45.7 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with Adrian Tait, co-founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance about his contribution to the new Deep Adaptation book. Links to buy Deep Adaption: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Adaptation-Navigating-Realities-Climate/dp/1509546847 Support this channel: https://patreon.com/genncc Cambridge Climate Lecture Series - Shaping The Future: https://climateseries.com/climate-change-podcast Nick Breeze's site with full archive: genn.cc Climate P...
Martin Bunzl | Thinking While Walking | Are we delusional about our perception of nature?
July 06, 2021 14:48 - 36 minutes - 68.2 MBIn this episode, I speak to the philosopher, Martin Bunzl, about his new book, Thinking While Walking, Reflections on the Pacific Crest Trail. As Martin traverses the 2650 mile trail from the Mexican-US border to the US-Canada border, questions emerge around our own relationship with what we call the natural world. If humanity has curated the landscape for thousands of years, both for-profit and pleasure, what are the impasses and delusions that we are to face in solving the huge ecologica...
Measuring Impact; don't know? Don't care! Margaret Kim, CEO, Gold Standard
July 03, 2021 06:31 - 21 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with Gold Standard CEO, Margaret Kim. Gold Standard sets the standard for climate positive implementation of a wide range of global-scale projects. The global push to eradicate emissions means that activities and processes must be credible and effective if they are to build trust that we are on target to avert overshoot due to the billions of tonnes of human greenhouse gases emitted annually. Margaret has enormous expertise in understand...
Climate As A Driver Of Conflict | General Ghazi
July 01, 2021 19:43 - 14 minutes - 27.3 MBSupport this channel via https://genn.cc or https:patreon.com/genncc This episode features an interview with former Pakistani Defence Minister General Ghazi. I recorded this at COP25 in Madrid and am replaying here because General Ghazi identifies with great clarity, a stage process that can lead a nation or region into conflict. General Ghazi also outlines the critical role of the military as first responders, when climate extremes create society-wide suffering. The question is here, what...
The Climate Coup | Mark Alizart
June 22, 2021 20:57 - 27 minutes - 49.8 MBView more at https://genn.cc Back this channel at https://patreon.com/genncc In this episode of Shaping The Future, I am speaking with French philosopher Mark Alizart about his new book The Climate Coup. The Climate Coup makes for fascinating reading as Mark identifies the forces of financial and self-interest who are either actively profiting or seeking to gain power from the misery and suffering that is a result of regional and global ecological and climate disasters. I n identif...
Ecosia Search Engine Founder/CEO, Christian Kroll | Turning profits into trees
June 18, 2021 14:14 - 22 minutes - 41.8 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future. Am speaking with Christian Kroll, founder, and CEO of Ecosia, the world’s largest not-for-profit search engine that actually uses profits to plant trees. Christian has built a true 21st-century enterprise that sees profit in terms of how much carbon they can lock up while respecting privacy and paying taxes. To paraphrase Christian: no one should be able to call themselves a billionaire until they absorb a billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere....
‘Plastic – An Autobiography’ | Allison Cobb discusses facing existential threats
June 15, 2021 13:23 - 18 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this episode of Shaping The Future, I speak with the author, Allison Cobb, about her new book titled ‘Plastic - An Autobiography’. With poetic sensitivity, Allison explores the complexity of how plastic has become part of our lives and how this material, that can endure for generations, has been wilfully categorised as a ‘single use’ disposable product becoming as ubiquitous as food with a highly toxic indigestible after-life. This autobiography is also personal, linking the horrendous ...