Climate Action Show Climate Action Collective

 Climate Action Radio showProduced by Vivien LangfordMay 6th 2024PALESTINE - The climate impacts of war and occupationGuestsProfessor Mazin Qumsiyeh - Bethlehem University - Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability. https://www.bethlehem.edu/ic/pmnh/ Nina Lakhani - Guardian Journalist- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-changeHadeel Ikhmais - Palestine Environmental Quality Authority documenting the climate crisis.Interviewed by Nermeen Sheikh and Amy Goodman Courtesy of Democracy Now!  Fahimah Badrulhisham and  Iqbal Barkat  from the Muslim Collective. Authors of  "Decolonise and Decarbonise Every River and Every Sea". This is a touring exhibition exploring the intersectionality of problems arising from the climate crisis. They look throught the lens of women, water, food, health, biodiversity loss, greenwashing, and the threat from fosill fuel expansion eg the Tamar Gas field just off the coast of Gaza. They reach us not just through facts but through poetry and an appeal to our humanity.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDbJ5rxFrmukI-hVpbbO9IWjgswtV-8-/view?usp=sharing 

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 29TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "IT'S LIFE OR DEATH FOR OUR DREAMING" Gurridyula WangguPROTECTING THE DOONGMABULA SPRINGS IN THE QLD SUPREME COURTandThe real cost of burning our future with guest researcher Sarah Biermann Becker from Global WitnesGuests:Adrian Burrugubba - Senior Custodiuan Wangan and Jagalingou People Gurridyula Wanggu - Environmentalist of the year 2021- https://bobbrown.org.au/about/bbf-awards/ Alison Rose - Ninox law dedicated to Human Rights cases  especially for First Nations people protecting country. Sarah Biermann Becker -  Global witness- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/schools-close-and-crops-wither-as-historic-heatwave-hits-south-east-asia This item is courtesy of Alex Smith and Radio Ecoshock   

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWProduced by Vivien LangfordApril 22nd 2024 First broadcast on October 23rd 2023VETERINARIANS FOR CLIMATE ACTIONhttps://www.vfca.org.au/volunteer Guests: Dr Ron Glanville Former Chief Veterinarian Officer for Queenslandtalks about livestock and the increase of vector borne diseases in floods and rising heat. Biosecurity consultant says Victorian farmers need to be more aware of mosquito-borne viruses - Vets for Climate Action (vfca.org.au) Dr Michelle Marquardt - In the Blue Mountains talks about caring for your dog in a heatwave,preventing your cat becoming a pest and rescuing wildlife from bushfires.Do Birds Pant Like Dogs? - Vets for Climate Action (vfca.org.au) Music by Flume A call to Nature The Environmental Music Prize – Amplifying the voices of artists who inspire action for climate and conservation.(link is external) Watch this to see beautiful birds of the Northern Rivers Inspiration from HEAT by Jeff Goodall -‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning | Grist(link is external)Check out his chapter :The Mosquito is my vector

CLIMATE ACTION SHOWAPRIL 15TH 2024PRODUCED BY VIVIEN LANGFORDRISE UP AGAINST MORE COAL AND GASGuests:Gavan Mc Fadzean - Climate and Energy Programme Manager AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION Court Case 2024 (acf.org.au) Natasha Abayawickrama - Australian Youth Climate Co alition- Rise Up! 12 Days of Action: 29 April - 10 May - Move Beyond Coal David Rovics -  "Land and Freedom" a song from his new album Notes from a holocaust Notes From A Holocaust | David Rovics (bandcamp.com)King Coal is opening up what they call "greenfields sites" in this country. And they are green sometimes when the rains come, and they are already inhabited. The Doongmabulla Springs in Wangan and Jagalingou country are a sacred place and should be sacred to all of us, but Adrian Burrugubba, who is a senior custodian is taking the Qld Government to the Supreme  court on human rights grounds. The Adani company has already overstepped the environmental limits imposed to protect the springs. In a statement I received Mr Burrugubba said "If water extraction and pollution from the Adani mine are allowed to continue, the springs will be destroyed forever. [ermanently breaking our spiritual connection to our ancestors and creation stories." On April 29th we will hear their legal council Alison Rose explain their case. Meanwhile if you care about these people on a front line of climate change,trying to stoip a coal mine, trying to preserve a water source in this dry continent please donate to their legal fund W&J Nagana Yarrbayn Cultural Custodians Legal Defence Fund | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising Also on April 29th you can join the "Rise up like the flood and flames"  action organised by Moive beyond Coal Rise Up! 12 Days of Action: 29 April - 10 May - Move Beyond Coal

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more.Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective. https://www.podchaser.com/creators/mark-spencer-107Zzj7JFC Meg Clancy - Actor, Dancer and  Major Contributor to NITV Lyn Bender - Psychologist and former Manager of Lifeline Melbourne . Recent journalism https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/critics-of-glazers-oscars-speech-prove-the-relevance-of-the-zone-of-interest,18451https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/israeli-propaganda-bordering-on-absurdity,18396 Part 2 :By kind permission here is  recent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson by Radio Ecoshock Host Alex Smith .As Alex says: Following the publication of “The Ministry of the Future”, Robinson toured internationally not to promote the book but to discuss it. He an ambassador for a novel – and for a future. Big Capitalists like Bill Gates blogged about Robinson’s book. The Financial Times reported his meetings with bankers, investors and even the military. Yet many of Kim’s books search for alternatives to Capitalism. Does Capitalism have to go, and is there any alternative? We discuss in the interview.https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/03/climate-sci-fi-gets-too-real.html    

CLIMATE ACTION RADIO SHOWAPRIL 8TH 2024Produced by Vivien Langford "MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE"-  REVISITEDGuests:Part 1. A dramatisation and discussion of the scene in the novel where the manager of the Ministry is held hostage by a distraught survivor of  an horrific climate event in India. Millions have died and he demands she does more.Mark Spencer - Podcaster and Founder of Climactic Collective. https://www.podchaser.com/creators/mark-spencer-107Zzj7JFC Meg Clancy - Actor, Dancer and  Major Contributor to NITV Lyn Bender - Psychologist and former Manager of Lifeline Melbourne . Recent journalism https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/critics-of-glazers-oscars-speech-prove-the-relevance-of-the-zone-of-interest,18451https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/israeli-propaganda-bordering-on-absurdity,18396 Part 2 :By kind permission here is  recent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson by Radio Ecoshock Host Alex Smith .As Alex says: Following the publication of “The Ministry of the Future”, Robinson toured internationally not to promote the book but to discuss it. He an ambassador for a novel – and for a future. Big Capitalists like Bill Gates blogged about Robinson’s book. The Financial Times reported his meetings with bankers, investors and even the military. Yet many of Kim’s books search for alternatives to Capitalism. Does Capitalism have to go, and is there any alternative? We discuss in the interview.https://www.ecoshock.org/2024/03/climate-sci-fi-gets-too-real.html