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Climate news, culture and commentary from the team behind Drilled and Hot Take.

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    • 4.6 • 501 Ratings

Climate news, culture and commentary from the team behind Drilled and Hot Take.

    Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis

    Maddie Stone on Microsoft's Role in the Climate Crisis

    In a new story co-published by Grist and Drilled, Microsoft employees who spent years fighting the tech giant's oil ties are speaking out about the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.
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    • 35 min
    Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue

    Welcome to Spill and Happy Earth Day: Freeing Palestine Is a Climate Issue

    Hot Take co-hosts Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt are back with a new show blending climate news updates and cultural commentary, plus a monthly Hot Take-style conversation. In our first episode: what else? A conversation about the intersection between the war on Gaza and the climate crisis.
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    • 54 min
    Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case

    Climate News Update: The New Carbon Majors + Swiss Elders Win Landmark Climate Case

    Lots of news lately on stories we've been following, so in today's episode: an update! The landmark Carbon Majors report has been updated with some surprising new data, and the European Court of Human Rights has sent down an historic ruling that will shape how EU legislators look at energy and climate.
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    • 41 min
    Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement

    Slow Factory's Céline Semaan on Climate Justice, Collective Liberation, and Building an Unbreakable Movement

    When Celine Semaan began calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, she was surprised at the backlash she and her team at Slow Factory got, including multiple funders pulling their support. Today, Semaan is more determined than ever to push for climate justice and collective liberation.

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    • 43 min
    Messy Conversations: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on What the Climate Movement Loses When It Excludes Environmental Justice

    Messy Conversations: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on What the Climate Movement Loses When It Excludes Environmental Justice

    Rhiana Gunn-Wright was one of the architects of the Green New Deal, and today works as the climate policy director for the Roosevelt Institute. In this episode we get into the nuances of the IRA, how to handle climate being a "culture war" issue, what's going on with anti-renewables, and what the climate movement loses when it turns its back on justice issues and particularly when it turns its back on the Black community.
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    Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!

    Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!

    Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, and it's a children's book about climate change. It's the first of *three* climate books Mary has coming out in the near future (the other two are a novel, called Troubled Waters, and an essay collection of Black writers on climate). She has been busy writing up a storm since we wrapped up Hot Take (and we've roped her into editing stories for Drilled, too). In this episode we talk about her books, what's happening in climate media in general, and the question Amy gets asked all the time and can't answer very well: How do you talk to kids about climate change.
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    • 51 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
501 Ratings

501 Ratings

MaryLou93 ,

Sad the pod is over

Each a powerhouse of intelligence and wit in their own right, together Amy and Mary make a stellar duo. Hot Take is the best way to keep up to date on climate without feeling paralyzed by the problem. Thank you for everything the past few years, and I hope you work together again soon!

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My go-to

This podcast is my go-to for climate news. Really appreciate the perspectives and context brought in to each episode.

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