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Progressive Podcast Australia


Jan 24, 2022

On episode 276 Nick is joined by Adam Cardilini to discuss the movie Dont Look Up (Netflix) and compare individual actions for the climate commonly promoted in the environmental movement with scientific research on the most effective actions. We do this by discussing the actions promoted on the website https://www.count-us-in.org/en-gb/project/ and the following scientific article: Wynes, S. and Nicholas, K. A. 2017. The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions. Environ. Res. Lett., 12(7), 1-9: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541 This show is replayed from Nicks other show Freedom of Species on 3CR Community Radio. You can check out this show at the following site and you can also subscribe to it on a bunch of apps including iTunes and Spotify: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies This show is a continuation of our last episode Episode 275: Dont Look UpActually You Probably Should! Re-Engaging with the Climate Crisis: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/18/275/ Adam recommends the website https://drawdown.org/ over count-us-in.org for websites measuring the impact of different individual actions of the climate. Nick recommends the book Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: https://booko.com.au/works/7812484 Dont Look Up Doesnt Get the Climate Crisis By Eric Levitz: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/dont-look-up-climate-metaphor-review.html Brian Cox Breaks Down The Science Behind Dont Look Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntaidEKs_Ks Music and other clips: Animal liberation by Los Fastidios: https://www.losfastidios.net/ Clip from Dont Look Up (Netflix). Union speaker Luke on just transitions for fossil fuel workers, from the Climate Crisis National Day of Action event in Melbourne, Feb 22, 2020: https://archive.org/details/climaterally The Voracious March of Godliness by Bad Religion: https://badreligion.com/albums/no-substance Work-Rest-Play-Die (live) by Subhumans: https://subhumans.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-a-dive For more in-depth show notes, including additional links, go to: https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2022/01/25/276/ If you enjoy the music we play on our show, check out our Spotify playlist Progressive Podcast Australia Music and Comedy! https://open.spotify.com/user/bronzecat83/playlist/6DK5AzWfrxSDcpHWlLsWi6