Hot Tak‪e‬ Critical Frequency

A dramatic reading of the book Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero with Emily Atkin and Brian Kahn, plus a look at the energy industry's annual conference, CERA Week, or as we like to call it, the Greenwashing Olympics.
For more of Emily's reading: https://heated.world/p/reading-is-fundamental
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Lewis Wallace, journalist and author of the book The View from somewhere, and the podcast by the same name, joins us to talk about one of our least favorite conventions in journalism: both sidesism.
Check out more from Lewis, including his book, podcast, speaking events and trainings: https://www.lewispants.com/
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Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz joins us to talk about all the many ways oil, war, and climate change intersect.
Read more:
https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/light-sweet-crude-a-former-us-ambassador-peddles-influence-in-afghanistan/
https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/the-new-war-for-afghanistans-untapped-oil/
https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/why-rex-tillerson-could-be-americas-most-dangerous-secretary-of-state/

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The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles O'Laughlin joins us to talk about where this idea came from, why it disappeared, and why it's back...hopefully to stay.

Further reading:
Maxine Burkett's original paper on climate reparations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539726
"Climate Rage," by Naomi Klein in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-rage-193377/
"No Money Down," by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in Earth Island Journal https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/no_money_down/
Four "The Case for Reparations" articles from recent history:

Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/

Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparations

Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/

In our 2020 year-in-review episode, Mary and Amy talk about how Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter protests impacted climate coverage, how the media dealt with record-setting fires and hurricanes, the beauty that was greentrolling taking off this year, and what where we hope to see the climate story go in 2021.

The story behind our newsletter, and a look at some of our favorite pieces from our first year.