Climate Walk, Climate Talk Wanderers of Changing Worlds

Why do pipes need to be widened and dams in Denmark to be strengthened? Are old or young people more aware of Climate Change? Why was the energy debates one of the major topics in spite of the then upcoming parliamentary election? How did Nina choose to which people to talk to and how? And what can happen if the Öresund straight freezes? These questions are discussed in this episode, while Greta and Nina are listening to the voices from the three weeks when Nina was walking through Denmark in autumn 2022 in Team North.



Location: Denmark, Team North

Date of recording: 21.12.2023

Total length: 00:59:44





Timeline:

00:00:00 Teaser

00:01:43 Welcome and Introduction to the Episode

00:03:21 Experience from 3 weeks of Denmark

00:16:19 Extreme and Changing Weathers

00:25:51 Heaps of Water

00:34:40 Denmark and the Energy Question

00:42:00 Which generations are more aware?

00:51:37 Questioning Responsibilities: Too Small to Act?

00:58:00 Some Schnaps at the End

This episode takes you back in time to the end of summer 2022 to our Team North in Norway, where we spent quite a long time. While the recording took already place in September 2022, the editing was finished at the end of 2023. So we travel a bit back in time and listen to the voices our Wanderers collected in the North. The voices tell us about appearing and disappearing species, tourism, energy sources and who has a responsibility for act. Tune in to hear why they are concerned about the cloudberries, the discussions of how the Norwegian welfare state is financed and how our Wanderers are longing for their break days.



Location: Norway, Team North

Date of recording: September 2022 (Editing: autumn 2023)

Total length: 1 h 26 minutes





Timeline:



00:00:00 Teaser

00:02:27 Intro & Welcome to the episode

00:04:04 Taking breaks

00:07:47 Topics of this episode

00:09:10 Weather, temperature and season changes

00:14:16 Extreme weather events 

00:16:44 Norway as winner of Climate change?

00:18:35 Species changing & the Arctic Fox under threat

00:23:42 Gulf stream and changes of the ocean waters

00:25:43 Impacts on the forest and why cloudberries are disappearing

00:30:30 Climate change art

00:37:20 Media narratives

00:38:06 Tourism and tourism management in the Lofoten National Park

00:43:31 Oil extraction, the Norwegian state, and renewable energies

00:53:38 Wind power (and green colonialism)

00:57:13 Responsibility to act

01:11:31 Emotions, despair and hope

01:15:14 Good bye and message from Ada and Fred (Voices of the Valley, https://adada.no/vuomien-tjuajah-voices-of-the-valley-2022/ , https://www.facebook.com/vuemien.voices/ )

01:18:20 Music by the “Vuomien Tjuajah/Voices of the Valley”

In this episode we return to Team South and their journey in autumn/winter 2022/2023 through Southern France. Anna shares the experience of her foot injury, Eva her disappointment over wine-romance and Nina learned that the mistral is not at first a Yu-Gi-Oh monster. Listening to voices and telling our memories from the Climate Walk, we reflect on the thoughts and experiences of winds and weathers, wine and water, future hopes and fears, that people along our way shared with us. 



Location: France (& Monaco), Team South

Date of recording: 06.12.2023

Total length: 1 h 24 minutes



Timeline:

00:00:00 Teaser

00:01:42 Intro

00:02:59 What happened since finishing the walk

00:06:09 Arrival in France

00:14:38 Changing Weathers

00:24:38 The Mistral Wind

00:29:41 Water shortages and water distribution

00:38:07 Agriculture & Wine plantations

00:47:23 Politics, responsibilities & education

00:59:51 Climate emotions and thoughts about the future

01:08:26 Injuries and changing plans

01:23:17 Au Revoir!

In this episode we listen to voices that our Team South collected this autumn on their journey through Portugal and Spain. We hear concerns about water and fire, droughts and eucalyptus.



Location: Team South, Portugal and Spain

Date of recording: 05.12.2022

Total length: 1h 25 minutes



Timeline:

00:00 teaser

01:50 Welcome back & Introduction to Team South

06:30 Hiking Impressions

12:55 Lack of Water

24:13 Concerned about the Rivers

35:35 Warmer Weather and more Extremes

42:24 Forest Fires

56:00 Eucalyptus Monocultures

1:05:22 People leaving the Countryside

1:10:45 Thoughts about the Future

1:16:35 Good-bye and Outlook

1:19:50 Presentation Music

1:22:00 Morirem d'Aquí a Pocs Anys by Pol Gise

While the Climate Walk team spends several months hiking through Norway, they have encountered few people, many reindeers and occasionally a bear or a moose. With the people living in the most Northern parts of the Scandinavian peninsula, our Wanderers talked about changing weather conditions, expanding energy industries and what that means for their lives. They shared these impressions with us and we share their voices with you.



Location: Team North, Norway

Total length: 1h 3 min.



Timeline:

00:00 teaser + Intro Song

02:18 Welcome

04:12 the Wanderers’ experiences in the first weeks of hiking in Norway

09:03 changing weather conditions

15:17 consequences for reindeer herding

18:44 contribution versus effects on climate change in the North & traditional livelihoods

25:31 land use & energy industry

28:22 Alta controversy

31:29 wind energy

34:57 profits versus consequences

38:49 green colonialism

43:42 human rights reputation & indigenous rights

46:13 emotions about climate change

52:27 mining in Gâllok

55:02 about Sámi music and Yoiking

57:03 music as activism: demonstration song against mining — “Bures Boahtin Sápmái / Välkommen Till Sameland” by Max Mackhé

The European Climate Walk is on its way, and we reflect at this starting point on what we will do in the next few months: as a project, but also what is ahead for this podcast. We hear how the first hikers have prepared themselves for their journey in Northern Norway and talk with Gabriel Baunach from Climaware about the role of science communication in times of the Climate Crisis. Finally, we listen to the band Krafetzka and their song “No Planet B”.



Podcast timeline:

0:00 Teaser

1:40 Wanderers Song

3:12 Introduction

5:34 Markus & Anna on their way to the North Cape

9:25 Interview with Gabriel Baunach about Science Communication

36:00 Follow-up talk

40:44 Krafetzka



If you have comments, questions, suggestions or if you want to hike with us across Europe, let us know through our Social Media contacts or our website.

The discussion around science communication, especially in the face of the Climate Crisis, is way more extensive than we could cover in our podcast. Therefore, we listed some other podcasts we can recommend, that deal with this topic in more length and depth, if you are interested in hearing more (the ones on the list are in German):


Climaware — Klima Wissen Wandel (Gabriel Baunach, One Pod Wonder)
1,5 Grad — der Klima-Podcast mit Luisa Neubauer (Spotify & Luisa Neubauer)
POD STEH UNS BEI (STUDIO BUMMENS & K2H)
Alles Gesagt? vom 23.07.2020 “Mai The Nguyen-Kim, rettet Wissenschaft die Welt?” (ZEIT ONLINE)

If you have more recommendations of good podcasts about this topic, especially in other languages, let us know and we will list them here!

Since the message from Krafetzka in the episode is spoken in German, we have an English transcript here:
Hey lovely people, whether you are out hiking or listening from home: I'm Annie from Krafetzka and we're really happy to be here today and think it's very important to put in our two cents and make our contribution. Maybe you can hear a nice storm raging in the background and that fits frighteningly well with the fact that we are just about to share our frightening and formative experiences of nature within the band. Quite a lot came up and together and we came up with some situations quite directly. Something like the blooming meadows from childhood, now dried out and almost without insects, or seeing the former childhood and home forest now cleared. I would like to tell you a bit more about how our song “No planet B” came about. It was in March 2018, I think on a Thursday, when we were invited by the local Fridays for Future group in Witten to play at the demo the next day. Afterwards it was clear, that we had to come up with a suitable song somehow and then “No Planet B” came into being, in a very nice night and fog action. I would like to share a quote from a song by another band that fits the theme: "Music alone may not be a solution, but it is a thorn in the ear. And so, with our music we somehow try to contribute, to change something, we try to point out issues and we try to give the people who are working on solutions maybe at least one or two liberating dance evenings. We know that writing songs, making music, and talking talking talking alone is of course not enough but, hey people, we also know we can change something. We can change something now and we can change it together and we are conscious and strong together and we hold ourselves strong. We go this way together with you and we want to infect as many people as possible with it.