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Extinction Rebellion Radio

Extinction Rebellion Radio is the voice of the climate rebellion, dedicated to covering weekly news and stories on the climate crisis through conversation, interviews and expert perspectives.*logo by Lili AllenExtinctionRebellionRadio@gmail.com

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28:00

Through and Beyond: Pondering Activism Under Trump

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/02/22

We ponder what an extinction rebellion looks like under this new iteration of American politics, this new iteration of executive power, this new iteration of world affairs. The same basic dynamic of the climate crisis goes on: mass burning of fossil fuels cooks the planet and threatens extinction. But what we do in response might look different. What is mutual aid in the time of a so-called 'unitary executive'? How do we go through and beyond the Trump administration to a constructive future instead

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28:00

USAID was a Climate Mitigation Organization

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/02/13

Alycee rejoins the show discussing how USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Developmen) was doing climate mitigation work before it was ripped apart last week by the Trump Administration. We also cover some recent climate news and commentary including a report from a financial modeling company saying that $1.4 trillion in real estate value will be destroyed by the climate crisis. That's real estate only: how much value is going to be wiped out.

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28:01

Tariffs! No Tariffs! It's All About the Oil

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2025/02/09

Whiplash on tariffs! Why did President Trump immediately reverse himself on tariffs, first with Colombia, then with Mexico and Canada? It's because he needs their oil. Colombia exports $5.4 billion in oil to the U.S, an amount that's dwarfed by Mexico and Canada. In fact the U.S. gets 60% of its oil from Canada. The tariff postponement has little if anything to do with border 'security' and everything to do with needing those fossil fuels. Fossil fuel dependence explains the tariff drama.

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28:01

Drill Oligarchy Drill

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/01/29

There have been two major presidential addresses in the last two weeks and both had climate change at the center of them. Joe Biden's Farewell Address warned of a developing oligarchy bent on un-doing climate progress, and Donald Trump's Second Inaugural Address stoked outrage at our failure to recover from climate disasters. This episode explains how the way both presidents think and talk about climate could be fundamental to American politics for years to come.

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28:01

Why No Plan Would Have Stopped the Fires

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/01/25

The fires around Los Angeles are obviously caused by climate change, Why wasn't there a better plan for combating them? I'm working on the theory that NO PLAN would have worked. It was not possible to respond quickly and effectively. There's a profound water shortage throughout the region, so they simply don't have enough groundwater to pump. The fire fighters may be well trained but if they don't have water there's not much they can do. No amount of planning can fix that. It's like this for climate

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28:01

Cat Lovers Will Rejoice, and Other Climate News

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/01/20

This episode updates climate news from various points in 2024 that we haven't covered yet. The Biden administration is foregoing some emissions cuts they could have had from regulating car pollution. And some good news: Cat lovers will rejoice to hear that the Iberian Lynx, a medium size cat with gorgeous features, is no longer critically endangered. An iconic Hawaiian Banyan tree is reflowering after a fire, in a hopeful metaphor for the climate crisis.

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28:01

Weather Weather Everywhere

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2025/01/10

From smog-choked India to flooded Spain to smoke-choked New York to the rain dump in the north of England to the Thanksgiving snow dump on the East Coast of the United States, what do all these things have to do with climate and what can we do about them?

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55:30

We Can't 'Recover' from Hurricanes Anymore

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2025/01/04

Climate change is pushing us beyond what we can handle as a society. Hurricanes Helene and Milton have left FEMA, the National Flood Insurance Program, and the Small Business Administration are all out of money and at the maximum of their ability to borrow. At this point it would take major Congressional intervention to mount even a normal disaster response. When even a rich country like the United States, that can borrow huge sums, struggles mightily to handle two storms, what chance does the rest

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28:00

Ukraine and the Climate Crisis

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2024/12/16

What's happening in Ukraine is deeply entwined with the climate crisis. Its dependence on fossil fuels that's creating both of these crises. Russia is an expansionist state that exports fossil fuels. This is the structure of whats happening. As long as both of those conditions are present, we are going to have to worry about what Russia will do next. President-Elect Trump is not going to change either of those things, so if we're right then the best he can do is a temporary ceasefire, not

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28:00

Cop 29: Money From Nowhere

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/12/09

Cop 29 is in the trash can of history. This was the 2024 version of the United Nations summit on solving global climate change. When we describe what happened, listeners will think we're joking (we're not). The Chief Executive of the conference offered to exchange oil and gas leases for sponsorships. The big announcement was money for poor countries, but the conference didn't bother to identify the source of this money; they skipped the part where they said where the money would come from. They just

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28:00

What to blame for the 2024 Election: Blame Itself

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/11/09

With Donald Trump's victory, near-term global progress on climate change seems impossible. How did we get here? This episode looks at each state and shows how deep and wide Trump's appeal was. My view of why has a lot to do with social division. The orientation to blame and attach each other over superficialities, very common on the left, creates an angry divided society on which a candidate of anger and division can easily prey. Blame feeds the monster of division, and the 2024 election is that

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28:00

Drilling in the Arctic—Trump Redux

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/10/29

We made this episode in December 2020, after the 2020 election but before President Biden and Vice President Harris took office. It's directly relevant now. Alycee and Matt examine Trump's efforts to rip open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and what Biden might do to stop it (he later did exactly what we said). And we talk about the threat of fascism in American politics. Four years ago, and one month from now, America and the climate face the same dilemma.

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41:55

Tim Walz on the Environment and Climate

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/10/16

Tim Walz, Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee and Governor of Minnesota, has been hailed as a progressive. And he is, relative to other national politicians. But what if we assess him relative to scientific necessity on climate change? The record is mixed. We aim for an even-handed discussion of Tim Walz's record, and of his potential should he and Kamala Harris win the White House.

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28:01

Climate Disasters from May-June 2024

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/09/22

Sorry for the delayed posting on this one, folks! Though late, it remains (unfortunately) absolutely relevant. The topic? Climate disasters are happening all over the United States and all over the world, with deadly consequences. The climate crisis is hurting us a right now; it is not a future problem. Extreme temperatures in India, hospitalizations at Trump rallies, dead homeless bodies on the streets of Phoenix, and half a million heat stroke cases at the Hajj in Mecca are just a few of the

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28:01

Sue the Bastards

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/09/15

Alycee (who is a lawyer) and Matt (who is not) talk about a few things today, and we start with suing the bastards. As we try to get some action on the climate emergency, do lawsuits work? Suing the fossil fuel companies, suing governments for non-action, what does it accomplish and what does it fail to accomplish?

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28:01

Disasters of June and July

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/09/01

In this episode we describe climate disasters covering June and July, including 300 foot high flames hurtling through a UNESCO site faster than a human can run, fires so large we have no means of fighting them, the moon appearing orange around the world from so much smoke in the air, floods that make four story buildings disappear in seconds, on and on (and this doesn't even include the hurricanes, typhoons, and oil spills). It's tough but necessary listening as we come to appreciate how dire the

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28:01

The Climate Election: From Pennsylvania to Palestine

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/08/26

The Harris vs. Trump election is currently the biggest story in climate policy, so we have more to say about it. What does fracking have to do with the rural vote in Pennsylvania? And how is that connected to carbon emissions from bombs and rockets in Israel and Palestine? It's all connected. Alycee and Matt explain how.

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28:00

Kamala and VP on Climate

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/08/11

Alycee and Matt analyze the presidential election in climate policy terms. We try to locate Kamala Harris on climate policy, and discuss the implications of her vice presidential pick. Harris has a track record of prosecuting big oil and winning multi-million dollar settlements from them, and she opposed fracking, then later promised she would not ban it. (In line with FCC rules this analyzes but does not endorse or electioneer.)

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28:00

J.D. Vance--Is He Any Different?

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/07/20

The new Vice Presidential Republican nominee J.D. Vance favors taxing corporations, curtailing foreign wars, and clawing back executive pay. At times he sounds more like the running mate for Cornel West than for Donald Trump. So what is going on? Is the so-called New Right that he personifies genuinely different from the traditional Republican Party once in office? Or is Vance bought and paid for by corporate interests after all? Climate policy is the give-away, the proof of what is really

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28:01

Hotter than July: Climate Disasters of 2024

Extinction Rebellion Radio ·

2024/07/09

This episode runs through some of the climate disasters of early 2024 - one after another. It's not easy listening, but it's necessary listening. The news media is drastically under-reporting how dire things already are, right now, which is why so many people think climate change is a future disaster. In fact, it is a present disaster. This episode covers the opening months of 2024.

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