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Climate change - what's hot and what's not. Find out what is happening in community campaigns around the country, as well as the latest science and the solutions that are available now.

  1. 3d ago

    HOW NOT TO SAVE THE WORLD: Interview with Anthea Lawson about saviorism complexes within activism

    This episode addresses saviorism complexes within activism, particularly when it is organised or oriented towards middle-class standpoints.When middle-class people engage in activism, it often stems from a revelation or realisation about how the world works, followed by a desire to change it, rather than from collective action born of an issue affecting a community. In this way, activists can see themselves as both separate from the issue at hand and tasked with "saving the world" from the problem by protesting and convincing others to come on board.Many parts of climate activism have been dominated by and oriented towards the middle class, in the same way that environmental choices such as buying an EV, switching to solar power or shopping at an organic, refill shop are tailored towards those with the means, money and privilege to do so. While caring for the environment and nature transcends class, race and cultural boundaries, much of how climate activism presents itself today is dominated by the middle class, which is why it is important to interrogate how that influences the movement and our own capacity to build collective momentum.Shae's guest, Anthea Lawson, has done a lot of thinking in this regard, examining her own and others' standpoints and the effects of those standpoints on their respective activism.Anthea Lawson (she/her) is an author and campaigner. Her books How Not To Save The World and The Entangled Activist help people who want to change the world think about the psychological, spiritual and philosophical foundations of what they’re doing, what’s getting in the way, and how they can be more effective. After training as a journalist at The Times, she worked for campaign groups including Global Witness and Amnesty International. She has fought for many issues over three decades, including controls on the arms trade and an end to the financial secrecy offered by tax havens.https://www.anthealawson.uk/https://anthealawson.substack.com/ https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/

  2. Jun 29

    What Children Think About Climate Change, and the Intersection of Welfare and Climate Change w/ Breadline

    On this show, we talk to a lot of experts. People who use big words, people who have written some book or spoken at some conference. And we also talk to local groups, people who are doing activisms, people who are heavily invested in this space, people who already know a lot. But that's not really most of Australia. I think for a lot of people, climate change is this kind of vague, bad future thing that is kind of in the back of their minds. I really wanted to get the perspective of normal people. People who are as invested in climate change as the experts and the activists, because climate change is gonna affect us all in the future. And whose opinions are just as important because feeling kind of bad, not knowing what to do, is a climate action. And it's probably the most popular climate action that everyone in the world is doing right now. The whole point of 3CR is that we present viewpoints that are underrepresented in other media, that we talk to people that don't usually have a voice, that we present opinions that other media places won't. Children are one of the groups in societies that have the least power, and their words are taken least seriously. And maybe that’s true, maybe kids just have bad opinions, but something that really struck me while I was talking to these people was just how their ideas were really similar to adults' ideas - it’s just that adults use bigger words. So I interview some normal children about their ideas about climate change.  ALSO What happens when your workplace burns down and then you don't have a job anymore? What happens when you are in a flood, and then your legs dissolve off, and then you have to go on the disability pension? What happens if you’re already doing it tough, and then the whole world around you starts getting even tougher one degree at a time? What if escalating natural disasters starts costing the government a lot of money and then they don’t increase jobseeker for another 1000 years? What if you’re poor but the only real solution to climate change being offered is the individual consumption of electric cars and solar panels and you just don’t have $50,000 lying around? What happens if you're an unemployed, divorced, depressed middle-aged men and everyone assumes that you and people like you are going to vote for one nation, but actually, you're really cool? I don't know the answers to these question, but Jennifer from the unemployed workers union does!

  3. Jun 22

    SANTA MARTA - MOMENTUM

    CLIMATE ACTION SHOWJUNE 22nd 2026Produced by Vivien Langford S A N T A   M A R T A M O M E N T U M  &   S E T B A C KGuestsProfessor Elisa Morgera U.N. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human rightsShe is  Professor of International Law and Sustainability at Durham University (UK) and Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Her Report to UN 2025https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/csdlp/news-and-events/news/2025/elisa-morgera-report-on-energy-transition-at-the-unga/ Stientje van Veldhoven - Netherlands Climate MinisterDescribing the talks as an "accelerator of work", she stated that Santa Marta provided an essential, informal space to collaborate and solve problems without the "de facto vetoes" that often stall formal U.N. (COP) negotiations.  Irene Velez Torres - Colombia Environment MinisterShe criticized governments for listening to "disinformation and lobbying" and argued that the Santa Marta talks were designed to close the growing gap between science and political decision-making. Ana Carolina Gonzalez Espinosa - A prominent  Climate Leader in Latin AmericaShe serves as the Senior Program Director at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and is a well-known associate researcher at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez  - Panama As Panama’s first Special Representative for Climate Change, he became the youngest lead negotiator in UN history at age 28.  President of Colombia Gustavo Petro -  He made decarbonization and anti-extractivism central to his governance, advancing the global phase-out of fossil fuels, campaigning for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and committing Colombia to a 51% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.He committed to stopping new oil, coal, and gas exploration contracts, attempting to break Colombia's historic dependence on resource extraction Fergus Green - 2015 Interview from 3CR Archive in celebration of its 50th birthday and contribution to public education on climate actionHe is  now Associate Professor, University College LondonConsultant - climate change policy, law and politicsIn 2015 just before the Paris Climate Conference Fergus spoke to me at Melbourne University about phasing out fossil fuels. His example of the  successful 1989 diplomatic initiative, led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke (alongside French Prime Minister Michel Rocard), to stop mining in Antarctica is still a beacon today.By Fergus Greenhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/how-to-get-coal-country-to-vote-for-climate-policy-the-effect-of-a-just-transition-agreement-on-spanish-election-results/25FE7B96445E74387D598087649FDCC3 BREAKING NEWSThe news that the Colombian Government is now in the hands of a Trump Ally is a real setback for many of the gains made by Gustavo Petro's Government. "Abelardo de la Espriella, the apparent winner of the presidential election, has vowed to expand oil, gas and mining production". I wonder what will happen to all the talent flowering at the Santa Marta Conference. See the previous programmes on Santa Marta in the Climate Action Podcast list to know which voices are out of power..... for the moment.https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062026/colombia-de-la-espriella-presidency-fracking-projects/Background to achievement of outgoing Colombian President Gustavo PetroHe spearheaded regional efforts to protect the Amazon rainforest, hosting global summits to prevent the biome from reaching an ecological "point of no return. In today's speech he mentions the rivers in the sky which brings water from forest transpiration to the uplands of the Andes. The severe drought of 2024/25 raised awareness of the results of deforestation in the Amazon.https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/latinamerica/mantenerse-unidos-tiempos-crisis-lecciones-gestion-sequias-bogota

  4. Jun 15

    Radiothon Silly Times!!!

    We took a break talking about serious things and had a fun time chatting about climate change, our own stories of climate activism, the history and future of the show, and just being silly billies!NEW Climate Action Show stickers available to subscribers or by gold coin donation! Head to the 3CR front desk to pick one up, or contact us on climateaction3cr@gmail.com to arrange postage.

  5. May 25

    SANTA MARTA - ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESET

    CLIMATE ACTION SHOW25TH MAY 2026Produced by Vivien Langford SANTA MARTA - AN ECONOMIC & POLITICAL RESETHAS THE Fossil Fuel  INDUSTRY ROBBED US OF OUR IMAGINATION? Guests:Louise  Morris -  THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE  and participant at Santa Marta Conferenec in Colombia Emily Ghosh -  Senior Scientist and the Program Director of the Equitable Transitions program at STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE  and participant at Santa Marta.  At Santa Marta in April the First International Conference on the fossil fuel transition happened. Only  those states and communities willing  to make the transition from fossil fuel dependendence  were invited.This was a fresh start in the midst of an oil crisis holding the whole world to ransom.President Gustavo Petro said " We are already seeing wars, a desperate fight for resources like oil and a breakdown in internationmal law. We are heading towards barbarism as if there is no alternative. Global democracy is impossible if we stop the transition beyond fossil fuels.Susana Muhamad  - Special Envoy for the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative and former Environment Minister of Colombia said "The fossil fuel industry had robbed us of our imagination" Today's programme reports on the transition that is happening and the pragmatic people there who are getting behind it. Louise Morris from Australia  and Emily Ghosh from Canada were there. They attended sessions  with Parliamentarians from around the world (but not from Australia)  and top scientists who announced  the creation of a new Global Energy Transition Panel, an international scientific body intended to advise policymakers on the energy transition.They will provide roadmaps whenever Governments ask them to do the modelling.Pictured above :Carlos Nobre- World reknowned Brazilian Earth System and climate scientistIrene Velez Tirres - Colombia's Environment MinisterJohn Rockstrom -Director of Potsdam Institute for global governments with specific roadmaps to transition away from foissil fuels.

  6. May 18

    Interview with Sarah Wilson about accepting oncoming complex systems collapse

    Shae interviews Sarah Wilson about her recent book, I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World. Together, they explore Sarah’s journey from climate activism grounded in hope to a deeper acceptance that the world is undergoing irreversible change and that many of the systems we rely on are beginning to unravel.They discuss what we might do with and make of that acceptance, and how we might start to cultivate new and meaningful ways of living amid instability. https://sarahwilson.com/

  7. May 11

    Sea Shepherd Australia beach cleanup, Australian Conservation Foundation presentation on Australia's Safeguard Mechanism, and Murray Darling Basin Plan Review

    Shae speaks to Sea Shepherd Australia spokesperson Grahame Lloyd about a recent beach cleanup in remote Cape York, which removed 12 tonnes of plastic pollution from a culturally significant coastline.Annika Reynolds from the Australian Conservation Foundation presents to the Climate for Change club about Australia's Safeguard Mechanism and its upcoming review. Priya from the Thursday Breakfast team chats with Craig Wilkins from the Murray-Darling Conservation Alliance about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan review.seashpherd.org.auclimateforchange.org.auacf.org.aumdca.org.au

  8. May 4

    SANTA MARTA.GOLDMAN PRIZE . VIGIL . MARCH IN MARCH . FLIGHT FREE.

    CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordMay 4th 2026IN THE DYING DAYS OF FOSSIL FUELSSANTA MARTA .GOLDMAN PRIZE .  VIGIL .  MARCH IN MARCH . FLIGHT FREE LIVING Guests: Speech from Yuvelis Morales Colombian Anti Fracking winner of the Green Nobel -Goldman Prize for EnvironmentalistsElizabeth Maddox reviewing George Saunder's novel VigilScott from Bob Brown Foundation at the Marc h in March (Sydney)Mark Carter - Flight Free Australia As it becomes increasingly ludicrous to depend on imported oil, coal and gas those states and organisations willing to pursue the transition met in Santa Marta Colombia. We hear the first news from the conference and inspiring words from Yuvelis Morales who was there. She said "Today I begin by prioritising life, the river and our dreams because every dream of peace is fished from the rivers of life"Colombia is just about the most dangerous place for someone to be an environmental activist. She says the Goldman prize "honours those who have suffered violence for defending their territory, water and life itself". They have "endured the horrors of war and still choose peace."

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Climate change - what's hot and what's not. Find out what is happening in community campaigns around the country, as well as the latest science and the solutions that are available now.

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    Climate Action Collective
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
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