This week we dig into the Wall Street Mess. Are we headed into the next Great Depression? We’ll talk to a Finance Campaigner at the Rainforest Action Network, to see how they fought some big bankers, and won. That interview with Matt Leonard …
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Before I launch into the script for this week’s Radio Ecoshock show, I want to get the key information into your hands. Here is new science, just published in the March 7th, Geophysical Letters scientific journal, explained by Ken Caldeira, senior scientist of …
Why have all the political climate plans failed so badly? Targets are set, with big announcements, and yet greenhouse gas emissions just keep going up, and up. Canada’s Professor Mark Jaccard has developed scientific models, to study how governments cope with the climate …
Latest awful science on climate’s impact: dead zones, acidification, extinctions. Forget Obamamania and gowns on the red carpet – oh, by the way, the oceans are dying. This show begins with clips from the 1973 classic “Soylent Green”. The usual warnings apply: people …
This is Radio Ecoshock. I’m your host, Alex Smith. Our audio show begins with a 21 minute interview with Robert Kunzig, author of “The Drying of the West” in the February issue of National Geographic. A great science writer and researcher, Robert Kunzig …
The report is called “Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential” It’s from Greenpeace International. We have with us one of the authors, Dr. Pete Smith from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen. Dr. Smith was also a lead …
How will we live as oil declines – and the price keeps going up? In our previous program, we ran the first hour of a speech by James Howard Kunstler, given as the first visiting scholar to the Urban Studies Program at Simon …
James Howard Kunstler lecture as 1st visiting scholar to Simon Fraser Urban Studies 080124 From the Long Emergency to new measures after Peak Oil. The best speech of the year so far. Why the housing boom will not return, and what that means …
[Show script][to hear the program, click the title above] [sci-fi – but all too true clip from trailer for new game] Our opening clip comes not from a documentary of our times, but from a trailer for a new video game called “Frontlines, …
This is writer, activist and hitchhiker MacDonald Stainsby. He is coordinator of a website called oilsandstruth.org. The Tar Sands megaprojects in Northern Alberta, Canada are so horrible, so insane, I don’t really want to talk about it. In fact, most Canadians – and …
As the poles melted, the world governments assembled at the tropical paradise of Bali, to confront the climate crisis. With Canada running interference (threatening to kill the conference) – the U.S. APPEARED to give in – but actually gave up nothing. As we …
In the summer of 2005, the Arctic Ice drew back, to reveal a record amount of northern ocean. The summer melt of 2007 was 23 percent bigger. We are losing the annual white reflective cover over the Arctic Sea. The whole climate system …