18 episodes
Planet B: Everything Must Change Novara Media
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We need to save the world from climate breakdown.
But with inequality growing, democracy in retreat and the far right on the rise, do we really want to save this world, or do we want to change it?
Planet B is a new podcast series from Novara Media which imagines a world that isn’t just saved from climate breakdown, but is renewed and transformed by the fight against it.
Join Dalia Gebrial, Harpreet Kaur Paul, and an array of guests from around the world for a six-part series that explores the future of a global Green New Deal.
We’re talking about the big issues: Work, Land, Infrastructure, Water, Migration and Debt.
We’ll ask: what would it mean for the Green New Deal to be underpinned by a politics of global justice? How can we think beyond the boundaries of the nation? And what would it take to transition to a democratic, decarbonised, resilient and reparative system that works for the global many, not the few?
The climate crisis presents us with an existential threat that requires a global response. It also gives us an urgent opportunity to remake the world into something better.
Join us as we begin to imagine life on Planet B.
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Planet B: Esther Stanford-Xosei on the Case for Climate Reparations
No vision of climate justice is complete without a roadmap towards reparations, argues Esther Stanford-Xosei in the final bonus episode from Planet B: Everything Must Change. Speaking to Harpreet Kaur Paul, the Indigenous reparationist, activist and advocate explains how histories of colonial injustice and racial discrimination have resulted in the twin crimes of genocide and […]
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Planet B: Jayati Ghosh on Escaping the Debt Trap
When poorer countries face unpayable debts, their ability to mount a defence against climate breakdown is drastically weakened. That’s why any attempts to prevent ecological disaster must involve ending debts and co-operating on global tax measures, says Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh. In an extended interview with Harpreet Kaur Paul, Ghosh breaks down the fundamentals […]
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Planet B: Debt
When we think about debt, we often think of money owed by countries in the Global South to institutions like the World Bank and IMF. But there is another kind of debt – the climate debt owed by the most polluting nations in the global north to those who have contributed the least to climate […]
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Planet B: Asad Rehman on the Making of the Climate Refugee
A global Green New Deal must enshrine people’s right to move – and also their right to stay, says Asad Rehman, executive director of anti-poverty charity War on Want. In an extended interview, Rehman talks to Dalia Gebrial about the emergence of the ‘climate refugee’ – and how this narrow definition will help countries in […]
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Planet B: Harsha Walia on Border Violence and Eco-Fascism
The fight against climate breakdown requires us to imagine a world without borders, says activist and writer Harsha Walia in this extended interview from Planet B: Everything Must Change. The Canadian author, whose books include Undoing Border Imperialism and Border and Rule, tells Dalia Gebrial why borders are themselves products of capitalism, in stark opposition […]
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Planet B: Migration
In the fifth episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, Dalia Gebrial explores the countless ways in which climate breakdown is driving the displacement of people, from the destruction of homes and subsistence livelihoods to the increasing scarcity of work in drought-afflicted countries. Who benefits from the idea of the ‘climate refugee’? Why does gender […]