30 min
What or Who Is The Petro-Elephant? Break Free From Plastic - Winter Will Come Again
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- Politics
Episode 1: What is the petro-elephant?
Plastic production is by far the largest industrial oil, gas, and electricity user in the EU, overshadowing other energy-intensive industries, contributing to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe.
Its unseemly ties to the energy crisis bring to light the massive energy use of the petrochemical industry. Plastics are oil and gas, and should be addressed as such in energy and climate debates. Yet we are seeing a strong buildout of petrochemical and plastic production facilities. Something is not adding up so our host Sarah Diedro Jordão speaks to writers of Break Free From Plastic’s Winter Is Coming report to the podcast to tell us their groundbreaking insights. With Delphine Lévi Alvarès of Break Free From Plastic & CIEL in Belgium and Andy Gheorghiu, activist and campaigner in Germany.
Transcript: Coming soon!
Recorded in April 2023.
Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/
Amadeo Ghiotto and Delphine Lévi Alvarès co-authored the report, with support from Andy Gheorghiu (Andy Gheorghiu Consulting), and review by Lili Fuhr (CIEL), Tom Harrison (GGON), Carroll Muffett (CIEL), Joan Marc Simon (Zero Waste Europe), Sarah Baulch (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and Jozef Vandermeulen (FairFin).
Find out more about Delphine Lévi Alvarès: https://www.ciel.org/about-us/ciel-staff/delphine-levi-alvares/
Find out more about Andy Gheorghiu: https://humansandnature.org/andy-gheorghiu/
This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).
Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.
The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:
Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 1: What is the petro-elephant?
Plastic production is by far the largest industrial oil, gas, and electricity user in the EU, overshadowing other energy-intensive industries, contributing to the ongoing energy crisis in Europe.
Its unseemly ties to the energy crisis bring to light the massive energy use of the petrochemical industry. Plastics are oil and gas, and should be addressed as such in energy and climate debates. Yet we are seeing a strong buildout of petrochemical and plastic production facilities. Something is not adding up so our host Sarah Diedro Jordão speaks to writers of Break Free From Plastic’s Winter Is Coming report to the podcast to tell us their groundbreaking insights. With Delphine Lévi Alvarès of Break Free From Plastic & CIEL in Belgium and Andy Gheorghiu, activist and campaigner in Germany.
Transcript: Coming soon!
Recorded in April 2023.
Read the Winter is Coming report: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/winter-is-coming/
Amadeo Ghiotto and Delphine Lévi Alvarès co-authored the report, with support from Andy Gheorghiu (Andy Gheorghiu Consulting), and review by Lili Fuhr (CIEL), Tom Harrison (GGON), Carroll Muffett (CIEL), Joan Marc Simon (Zero Waste Europe), Sarah Baulch (The Pew Charitable Trusts), and Jozef Vandermeulen (FairFin).
Find out more about Delphine Lévi Alvarès: https://www.ciel.org/about-us/ciel-staff/delphine-levi-alvares/
Find out more about Andy Gheorghiu: https://humansandnature.org/andy-gheorghiu/
This podcast series was created by Amadeo Ghiotto (Greenpeace) and Bethany Spendlove Keeley (Break Free From Plastic).
Our audio editor and podcast consultant is Anja Krieger.
The Music is from the YouTube Audio Library:
Accralate - The Dark Contenent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100341
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Cover design elements by Bryan Mathers, Visual Thinkery.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
30 min