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Sorry For The Disruption (replay)

Renewables for off-grid and cooling mirrors.  Dr. Emilio Moran, lead author of “Advancing convergence research: Renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities”. Then sustainability expert Dr. Jem Bendell apologizes for “bright-siding” climate change. Scientist Ye Tao’s fast run-down of the “Meer” project – cooling Earth  …

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Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares (new)

“Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI”. A hair-raising journey through developing dark futures. Bees, birds, and people as fodder for the system, while climate change is accelerated by corporate artificial intelligence. Dr. Nate Hagens is Director of The  …

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Mass Heat Deaths Arrive

Over 1000 worshipers died of heat in Mecca Saudi Arabia. During long extreme heat domes over India, Mexico, North Africa and the Middle East – nobody counted the dead. Only Europeans and North Americans matter to big media. After an extreme weather update,  …

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Why Renewables Cannot Power Your World – Simon Michaux

Renewables cannot power the world we know. Dr. Simon Michaux from the Geological Survey of Finland crunched the numbers: not enough time, and not enough metals. In this unique interview on Rachel Donald’s PlanetCritical broadcast, Michaux explains the limits – and what we  …

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Climate Cities: Radical Adaptation

Is your city ready for extreme heat, floods, and wind? No! It is time for “Radical Adaptation” with Professor Brian Stone, Director of the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech. Can we still make cement, steel – the basics – without fossil fuels?  …

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Wealth Supremacy Vs. Climate Doom

Behind all the crisis, the wealth machine pulls money up to the one percent.  The worse things get, the less for everyone else.  Author and activist Marjorie Kelly: “  “Wealth Supremacy:  How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s  …

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Dangerous Contradiction: “Green New Deal”

Is the “Green New Deal” a solution or another problem? Rethinking our options first with Dr. Ted Trainer, founder of The Simpler Way in Australia. From Cambridge, political economist Jeremy Green finds dangerous myths in the New Deal for an overloaded system. Look  …

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Real Answer: Post Growth and Degrowth (replay)

UK, Professor Tim Jackson on his book “Post Growth: Life After Capitalism”. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being – degrowth. Stock markets, banks, every business – everybody wants to grow more and buy, buy, buy.  …

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The Big Heat Strikes

Military spending is up around the world. Will they protect fossil fuel interests while the world burns? Australia security analyst & climate researcher Dr. Elizabeth Boulton has a very different plan. Canadian medical doctor Peter Carter now heads the Climate Emergency Institute. Carter  …

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What I Really Think Will Happen Is Happening Already

Tornadoes, climate and a rocky future Long-time science journalist Alex Smith finally admits his own hopes and fears, knowing what we know now. Some neglected new science shows up, plus clips with Todd Rose on collective illusions, and a word from 11-year-old climate  …

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Avoiding the Doom Loop in the Age of Crisis

Can crisis tip us into an ecologically sane civilization? UK Think tank report author Laurie Laybourn on a future where disasters ripple across the world. Then let’s get away – to Antarctica. Why did sea ice crash around that frozen continent? Increasing El  …

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Why Normal Is Never Coming Back

Space physics expert Professor Thomas W. Murphy warns government and corporate plans are impossible. The growth game is OVER. We are never going back to “normal”. Post Carbon Institute Fellow and author of 14 books Richard Heinberg says “The renewable energy transition is  …

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