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.
