Spill
Climate news, culture and commentary from the team behind Drilled and Hot Take.
S4 E7 · Tue, November 26, 2024
This Is Bullsh*t
We're pissed off and full of dread and tired of hiding it. Buckle up, folks, Mary and Amy get real about what's coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E6 · Mon, September 09, 2024
Mary + Amy's Debate Preview: What Project 2025 Tells Us About Trump, What Harris Is and Isn't Saying About Climate, and More
Will we hear anything about climate in Harris's first debate with Trump? What can we glean from Project 2025 about how Trump will approach environmental justice? Plus re-thinking the climate movement and politics, with Mary Annaïse Heglar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E5 · Tue, July 09, 2024
Could You Really Charge Oil Companies with Murder? Plus: Supreme Court Climate Update
This week, we bring you an episode from our climate litigation podcast, Damages, because we've been getting SO MANY emails about what sorts of legal strategies might still be available for climate accountability given everything happening at the Supreme Court. Public Citizen has been working with various prosecutors to explore the idea of using criminal law to hold oil companies accountable for climate change, but is it really viable? The group's senior climate policy counsel, Aaron Regunburg, joins us to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E4 · Tue, June 25, 2024
ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten on Climate Migration
In his new book, On the Move , ProPublica climate reporter Abrahm Lustgarten digs into the ways climate change is re-shaping where people live and how they move in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E3 · Thu, May 30, 2024
John Kasper: A Guy Who Sucked
Over the years we've talked a lot about the intersection between civil rights and climate change. Now Mary Annaïse Heglar has a novel out (her first!) that lives in that intersection and it's fascinating. On this episode she brings us the story of a guy who fought the desegregation of schools, and why it's important to remember the many ways in which the fight for climate action and the fight for racial justice overlap. Help Mary's Aunt Jackie: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pej5x-please-help-me-support-my-aunt?attribution_id=sl:f9898bae-f933-4b7a-a739-58d6b8b6b202&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link Buy Mary's book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/troubled-waters-mary-annaise-heglar/20208074?ean=9781400248117 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E2 · Wed, May 08, 2024
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S4 E1 · Mon, April 22, 2024
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus · Tue, April 16, 2024
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus · Tue, April 02, 2024
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. Pre-order A Woman Is a School: https://shop.slowfactory.earth/products/a-woman-is-a-school Check out course(s) on Open Edu: https://slowfactory.earth/open-edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus · Tue, March 05, 2024
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus · Tue, February 27, 2024
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S3 Enull · Tue, December 05, 2023
Messy Conversations: Akshat Rathi on Climate Capitalism
Bloomberg climate reporter Akshat Rathi joins us to discuss his new book Climate Capitalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Bonus · Tue, October 03, 2023
The Climate Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining
Some mining companies claim that we can't "electrify everything" without deep-sea mining—a claim that has been debunked by various scientists. Environmentalists, car companies, and governments are pushing back, citing not only the obvious potential damage to marine ecosystems but also the climate impact of releasing carbon from the ocean floor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S3 Enull · Thu, July 20, 2023
Introducing: Inherited — Climate Youth Stories From Around the World
In the Season 3 premiere of Inherited, host Shaylyn Martos introduces us to storyteller Camara Aaron, who shares a personal story of family loss, structural resilience, and survival in an era of climate change. Camara, now 25, was only a child when she visited her grandmother’s unique house on the island of Dominica, in the West Indies. But when Hurricane Maria devastated the Caribbean in 2017, her grandmother died in the storm, leaving Camara to sift through her own hazy memories and reconcile a way forward. Inherited is a critically acclaimed climate storytelling show made by, for, and about young people. We’re a production of YR Media and distributed by Critical Frequency. For more information about our podcast, head to our website at yr.media/inherited, and follow us on the socials @inheritedpod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 30, 2022
F$#%, Marry, Kill Big Oil
For our last episode of Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit their favorite jokes, and dig into the listener mailbag to answer questions from Hot Cakes around the globe. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 16, 2022
The Zombie Apocalypse Is Real
This week, Amy and Mary discuss zombie ice viruses, the Keystone pipeline spill in Kansas, a global biodiversity crisis, the degrowth movement, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 09, 2022
Won't Someone Think of The Children
This week, Amy and Mary chat with Rebecca Nagle - an Indigenous journalist, host of This Land, and long-time friend of the show. They discuss Brackeen v. Haaland (a legal case threatening Indian Law), why Indigenous issues are so under covered, Landback, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 02, 2022
'Tis the Season to Want Nothing
Just in time for the holiday season, Amy and Mary chat with Aja Barber - a writer, stylist and consultant who works at the intersections of fashion and sustainability. They dive into the problems with fast fashion, and its worst offender and Aja's sworn enemy Shein. They discuss Aja’s recent book - Consumed, talk about more ethical options for gift giving, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, November 18, 2022
Call the COPs
Amy and Mary break down this year's COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and explore the history of U.N. climate conferences beginning with the first summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. They also discuss the unseemly presence of fossil fuel companies at the meeting, loss and damages, climate debt, and more Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, November 11, 2022
No Country for Centrist Dems
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary break down the midterms, examine the shadowy billionaires funding Republican candidates, and give an honest review of Elon’s performance as Twitter's CEO. Spoiler: He’s failing, but it might be on purpose. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, November 04, 2022
Every Election Is a Climate Election with Rhiana Gunn Wright
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary speak with Rhiana Gunn-Wright - Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute and one of the architects of the Green New Deal. With the midterms right around the corner, they discuss shifting narratives around climate, the IRA, and much more. Later on, Amy and Mary make sense of the phenomena of flying soup that’s taking the art world by storm, and break down a horrific take from a New York Times opinion writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, October 28, 2022
Election Spooktacular
This week on Hot Take, Amy and Mary pick apart the climate implications and nuances in key midterm races (Fetterman, Booker, Barnes, Beto), plus the upcoming Brazilian presidential election. They look ahead to COP and the conversation around loss and damages (read: reparations), and the Nigeria floods. Oh, and Amy gets crafty for Halloween! Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, October 21, 2022
On the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
This week on Hot Take, Mary is joined by Sara Sneath, investigative reporter and alligator doula and Drew Costley, climate & environment reporter at The Associated Press. They discuss how to approach communities in the throes of a climate disaster, the tension between chronic and acute crises, trauma-informed reporting, and the disabled community. And, gators! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, October 14, 2022
Climate Candidates To Watch In The Midterms
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary discuss the new wave of Southern Black Democrats running on climate centric platforms and break down the important climate cases before the Supreme Court. They also bring updates on this year’s hurricane season and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, October 07, 2022
Reclaiming Identity Politics with Olúfemi Táíwò
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary talk to Olúfemi Táíwò, author and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown, about tokenism, reparations, how the powerful have appropriated identity politics and turned it into a tool of division, and more. Taiwo is the author of Elite Capture and Reconsidering Reparations and a real-life philosopher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, September 30, 2022
Hurricane Season Heats Up
This week on Hot Take, Amy & Mary give updates on Hurricane Ian, Manchin's failed permitting bill, discontent in Europe, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and sign up for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, September 23, 2022
Ask a Scientist, with NASA’s Dr. Kate Marvel
Today on Hot Take, Mary and Amy are joined by Kate Marvel, climate scientist at NASA, who answers listener questions about acid rain, geoengineering, astrology, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and sign up for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, September 16, 2022
Follow the Money, Eat the Rich
We hear all the time that acting on climate can upset the delicate balance of the economy, worsen inflation, kills jobs. So on and so forth. But is it true? Today on Hot Take, Mary and Amy are joined by Akshat Rathi, Senior Climate Reporter at Bloomberg, to break down the barriers and dispels the myths between the world of finance and the world we live on. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and sign up for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, September 09, 2022
Both Sides of the Mississippi
For this week’s Hot Take Labor Day special, Mary and Amy look into the connections between labor unions and the climate movement, the mega droughts in China and California, and the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, September 02, 2022
Climate Colonialism 101
This week on Hot Take, Mary and Amy talk to Abrahm Lustgarten about how colonialism, both in the past and the present, put the weight of the climate crisis on the shoulders of the people who did the least to create it. As a lens, they use Abrahm's Propublica investigation of Barbados' (and other Caribbean nations) attempt to navigate the intersection of climate change and debt. This conversation was taped on the anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Ida, during devastating floods in Pakistan and Jackson, Mississippi. Go to our full show notes for links on where to donate your support to! Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, August 26, 2022
A FOX in the newsroom
This week, Mary and Amy are joined by Evlondo Cooper, a journalist at media watchdog - Media Matters, to chat about the connections between the shrinking local new landscape and right-wing climate disinformation campaigns that have been lying on the Green New Deal, Build Back Better, and the IRA. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, August 19, 2022
Amy and Mary Take a TV Break
Tune into Hot Take this week, where Mary and Amy take a much needed break by watching TV! They look at how climate is represented in TV and film by revisiting Don’t Look Up, Billions, I May Destroy You, Beasts of the Southern Wild (Mary’s favorite film!), and so much more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thu, August 11, 2022
Devil in the IRA details
Amy and Mary cut through the noise to break down the good and the bad in the climate legislation that just passed the Senate - and take stock of what it means for the climate movement and where the conversation should go from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, August 05, 2022
The Quiet Climate Emergency
This week, Mary and Amy break down the latest in climate news from - the Inflation Reduction Act, the possibility of a climate emergency declaration, Taylor Swift’s private jet use, and much more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, July 29, 2022
Climate Behind Bars
This week, Mary and Amy are joined by investigative journalist Alleen Brown to take a closer look at mass incarceration. If we're going to talk about the communities most vulnerable to climate change, we have to talk about mass incarceration. From prison labor to prison evacuation, from ICE detention centers to juvenile justice centers, nothing good comes from the convergence of the climate crisis and the mass incarceration crisis. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, July 22, 2022
Joe Manchin vs. The World
This week, Joe Manchin spiked Biden's climate bill, but the planet is no political football. This week's episode of Hot Take takes a closer look at the true stakes of the climate crisis with a focus on the Global South. Mary is joined by Dharna Noor to talk through extreme heat and rising authoritarianism in India, floating cities in the Maldives, drought in the Horn of Africa, and a rotting oil tanker in Yemen—and so much more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, July 15, 2022
"Resistance" Over "Resilience"
Today on Hot Take is all about resilience—and the limits thereof. Mary talks with two fellow southerners - Ko Bragg, Scalawag’s Race & Place Editor, and Amal Ahmed, Disaster Reporter at Southerly. They discuss the uneasiness of today's summers, the problems with individual responsibility and why "resilience" is almost never the right word. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, July 08, 2022
Scene on Radio: In the Beginning
This week on Hot Take, we’re off! But, we’ve brought you an episode from one of our favorite shows - Scene on Radio. Amy was the co-host of the most recent season, along with John Biewen. If you like this episode, make sure to check out Scene on Radio to listen to the rest of their 5 episode series about climate change. Next week, we’ll be back with more Hot Take! The climate emergency is here. How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so much destruction on our only home, and ultimately on ourselves and our children? And, crucially, who is this we? Our story starts with the Book of Genesis. By host and producer John Biewen, with co-host Amy Westervelt. Interviews with David Pecusa, Bina Nir, and Kate Rigby. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, July 01, 2022
Supremely F$%#ed
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with Leah Litman, a law professor from our sister show - Strict Scrutiny, about SCOTUS aka the most hated reality TV show in America. They discuss Roe v Wade, WV v EPA, Ted Cruz’s slimy finances, and the Republican Attorneys General Association otherwise known as the villains you need to know about. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, June 24, 2022
Trans Rights Are Climate Justice``
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Yessenia Funes, Climate Director of Atmos Magazine, discuss queerness and climate justice, recent elections in Latin America, the vanishing Colorado River, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com. Learn more about Yessenia and Atmos’ work at atmos.earth//. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, June 17, 2022
How Many Oil Jobs Are There Really?
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk to Sara Sneath, New Orleans-based investigative journalist of Floodlight, about exactly what kind of jobs the fossil fuel industry creates and the quality of those jobs. Plus all the ways Big oil undermines labor rights Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, June 10, 2022
A Republican Climate Plan?
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary discuss the recent Republican “climate plan”, the Democratic primaries, heatwaves, a special fossil fuel f@$#boi, and more. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, June 03, 2022
Death of Democracy with Adam Serwer
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer about the future of US politics and how the path to climate justice requires a functioning democracy. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, May 27, 2022
Of Meat and Men with Alicia Kennedy
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary sit down with writer Alicia Kennedy to discuss the Netflix documentary, Bad Vegan. They also talk about bad weather, bad politicians, bad carnivores, and bad Bezos. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, May 20, 2022
Down Uterus, Down Girl! with Rebecca Solnit
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with Rebecca Solnit about our patriarchy problem, the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion, her role as the climate hope lady, and so much more! Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, May 13, 2022
A Total Moral Disaster
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary talk with David Wallace-Wells about the lessons we can learn from Covid-19, the parallels between pandemic response and climate response, and how Russia’s war in Ukraine sits at the intersection between the two. Follow us on twitter @RealHotTake and signup for our newsletter at hottakepod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, May 06, 2022
The Kids Are All Angry!
Today on Hot Take, Amy and Mary revisit why Joe Biden is struggling with Gen Z, and they talk about the terrible heatwave in South Asia, climate court cases, everybody’s (least) favorite billionaire and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, April 29, 2022
Free Britney and Lock Up Exxon
Amy and Mary sit down with Kate Aronoff, climate reporter at The New Republic, to talk about wtf nationalization means. They explore America's long and obscured history of it and why, how however messy it may sound, nationalization may be our best shot at transitioning the fossil fuel f*$%bois out of the business of global destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, April 22, 2022
The Real F&#!bois of Fossil Fuel
Hot Take is officially BACK! And in their very first episode as part of the Crooked Media network, Amy and Mary reflect on the roots of Earth Day, which was born out of the Civil Rights movement and used as a vehicle for holding Big Oil accountable. Then they share their picks for the biggest villains in the fossil fuel industry today. (Also - Happy Fk BP Week, everybody!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Trailer · Fri, April 15, 2022
Coming April 22... the return of Hot Take!
The climate crisis is literally the world’s biggest existential problem. But we can’t even begin to solve it if we don’t know how to talk about it first. That’s why Hot Take is back! Every week, Amy Westervelt and Mary Annaïse Heglar will talk about how climate change touches every aspect of our lives, and how our media is either getting the story right or entirely losing the plot. They’ll also connect you with other storytellers who grapple with how to tell this saga and who can help you understand the world through climate colored glasses - and who and what to be mad about for getting us here. New episodes once a week every Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, June 06, 2021
Big Oil Had a Bad Month (Which Means We Had a Good One)
In our S3 finale we talk about the very bad month Big Oil had in May, how much the climate story has changed in the past couple years, and what lies ahead as wildfire and hurricane season pick up, and pipeline protests rage on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, May 16, 2021
What Covid and Climate Have in Common: Science Denial
Pro Publica healthcare reporter Caroline Chen joins us to talk about her experience navigating that minefiled, where public health and climate intersect, what happened when all the climate journalists got reassigned to Covid, how to better integrate the ways we talk about health and climate, and a whole lot more.Reading List:A Tiny Number of People Will Be Hospitalized Despite Being Vaccinated. We Have to Learn Why.How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination SystemVaccinating Black Americans Is Essential. Key States Aren’t Doing the Work to Combat HesitancyHow Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, May 02, 2021
Moving Fast and Breaking Sh*t
Journalist Maddie Stone joins us to talk about Silicon Valley (yes, also the HBO series) and Big Tech's approach to both climate change and climate journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, April 18, 2021
April 20 Is #FUBPday
We missed the 10-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, so on the 11-year anniversary we're going big: It's #FUBPday. Plus: Why Seaspiracy sucked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, April 04, 2021
Hot and Cold with Rev Yearwood and The Coolest Show
In this crossover episode with The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood takes us to school and church with an in-depth conversation about the history of the civil rights movement, the climate movement, and the role of religion in both. Plus: we call bullshit on the American Petroleum Institute's "climate plan."Sign up for our newsletter: https://hot-take.ghost.io/Check out The Coolest Show: https://think100climate.com/podcasts/coolest-show-on-climate-change/and Hip Hop Caucus: https://hiphopcaucus.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, March 21, 2021
The Ultimate Abolition
If you want to see the true toll of the climate crisis, you have to train yourself to look for the most vulnerable populations. And you’d be hard pressed to find a population more vulnerable than prisoners. This week, we’re joined on the podcast by one of our favorite guests ever, Drew Costley, to talk about why there is no humane future for prisons and what might come next.Sign up for our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribeSelect readings for this episode: 'People are in danger': the prisoners feeling the effects of US climate crisis The Climate Disaster Inside America's PrisonsLet's Talk About Wildfires and Prisons What Happens to Prison Inmates Caught in Hurricanes?For the Families of People in Prison, Hurricanes Bring Extra Panic and Uncertainty Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis Climate Change Behind BarsHow the U.S. Prison System Contributes to Climate ChangeDefunding the Police Is an Environmental Justice Issue How Louisiana's Oil and Gas Industry Uses Prison LaborIs Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind (Published 2019)Aching for Abolition: As a survivor of sexual violence, I know prison isn't the answer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, March 07, 2021
The Greenwashing Olympics
A dramatic reading of the book Donald J. Trump: An Environmental Hero with Emily Atkin and Brian Kahn, plus a look at the energy industry's annual conference, CERA Week, or as we like to call it, the Greenwashing Olympics.For more of Emily's reading: https://heated.world/p/reading-is-fundamentalSubscribe to our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, February 21, 2021
Two Sides to Every Story?
Lewis Wallace, journalist and author of the book The View from somewhere, and the podcast by the same name, joins us to talk about one of our least favorite conventions in journalism: both sidesism.Check out more from Lewis, including his book, podcast, speaking events and trainings: https://www.lewispants.com/Subscribe to our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, February 07, 2021
Blood for Oil, with Antonia Juhasz
Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz joins us to talk about all the many ways oil, war, and climate change intersect.Read more:https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/light-sweet-crude-a-former-us-ambassador-peddles-influence-in-afghanistan/https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/the-new-war-for-afghanistans-untapped-oil/https://antoniajuhasz.net/article/why-rex-tillerson-could-be-americas-most-dangerous-secretary-of-state/Subscribe to our newsletter: http://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, January 24, 2021
No Better Time for Climate Reparations, with Tamara Toles O'Laughlin
The term climate reparations first came into the global climate conversation back in 2009. It disappeared for a while but has re-emerged in the past year or two. Environmental activist, organizer, lawyer, and all-around climate expert Tamara Toles O'Laughlin joins us to talk about where this idea came from, why it disappeared, and why it's back...hopefully to stay.Further reading:Maxine Burkett's original paper on climate reparations: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539726"Climate Rage," by Naomi Klein in Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-rage-193377/"No Money Down," by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky in Earth Island Journal https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/no_money_down/Four "The Case for Reparations" articles from recent history:Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/10/case-for-climate-reparations-crisis-migration-refugees-inequality/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/Sierra: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2018-3-may-june/feature/the-case-for-climate-reparationsMother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/11/the-case-for-climate-reparations/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, January 10, 2021
2020: The Shitshow
In our 2020 year-in-review episode, Mary and Amy talk about how Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter protests impacted climate coverage, how the media dealt with record-setting fires and hurricanes, the beauty that was greentrolling taking off this year, and what where we hope to see the climate story go in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, December 13, 2020
Newsletter Preview
The story behind our newsletter, and a look at some of our favorite pieces from our first year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, November 22, 2020
Making the Case, with Rhiana Gunn-Wright
On our birthday episode, policy expert Rhiana Gunn-Wright joins to talk about the pernicious narrative that Progressives harmed down-ballot Dem races, and that somehow Progressive values can't win races.Newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, November 06, 2020
Mitch McConnell's Cold Dead Hands
For our election 2020 recap episode, political consultant Rania Batrice joins us to break down what this means for climate, and Georgia Wright and Julianna Bradley, producers and hosts of the youth climate pod Inherited, join to talk about the youth vote turning out and turning up.Newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, November 01, 2020
All the Lives in the Balance, with Rachel Ramirez
There’s a lot on the line this week. But we wanted to take a moment ahead of this momentous election to talk about the sides of the climate crisis we don’t often see here in the United States, because it’s happening in the Global South. In this episode, with Rachel Ramirez of Grist, as we waded through the crisis below the equator: all the disasters we don’t hear about, the capitols being moved away from rising seas, and the perilous and deadly work of environmental activists (many of them Indigenous people). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, October 18, 2020
Political Instability = Planetary Instability
TIME magazine energy and environment reporter Justin Worland joins to discuss the many ways climate change and political instability feed and exacerbate each other. Check out our newsletter for links to the stories discussed in today's episode: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thu, October 08, 2020
The Flyest Debate Ever
A recap of the VP Debate, particularly the climate bits and what everyone got wrong on fracking, with guest commentator Brian Kahn, of Earther! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, October 04, 2020
Around the Way with Drew Costley
Drew Costley, environment reporter for One Zero, always makes us think he's from the places he's reporting about...which made him the perfect person for a discussion on the loss of local media and what it means for the climate conversation.Sign up for our newsletter to get this week's reading list + bonus features: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, September 20, 2020
Mary and Amy Watched I May Destroy You
We dig into the way the HBO series I May Destroy You deals with climate and race, plus a great new IG show from Zazie Beetz on climate justice, and the issues with Zac Efron's Down to Earth.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, September 06, 2020
There's No Climate Justice Without Indigenous Sovereignty, with Rebecca Nagle
We dig into colonialism and Indigenous genocide as the original sin of climate change, why tribal sovereignty is critical to climate action, and much more with intrepid and profound Cherokee reporter Rebecca Nagle. (She’s also the host of the This Land podcast from Crooked Media.) Sign up for our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, August 30, 2020
No Ordinary Pain: Katrina at 15
In this special bonus episode on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we bring you a story Mary told about the story on the Story Collider podcast. Big thanks to them for letting us use this clip! For more on Katrina, Bush, and where both sit on the timeline of the climate crisis, check out this week's newsletter, we've made it free for all: https://realhottake.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, August 23, 2020
Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Climate and Food?
Epicurious editor (and hot cake!) David Tamarkin joins to discuss how the aspirational world of food media has been slow to integrate climate, the machismo-and-meat problem, and how he and others are trying to push the beat forward. Plus, weird food trends!Subscribe to our newsletter: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, August 09, 2020
Hate to Say We Told You So, with Brian Kahn
Climate disasters are piling on top of the pandemic and ongoing nationwide civil rights protests, but you wouldn't necessarily know it from reading or watching the news. Brian Kahn, managing editor at Earther, joins us to talk about why so many outlets have a hard time applying a climate lens to stories that aren't about emissions or weather, the storytelling talents of climate deniers, and the need to undo decades worth of bad climate coverage that prioritized the appearance of objectivity over the truth.Follow Brian and his team: @blkahn, @yessfun, @dharnanoorSubscribe to our newsletter for bonus segments & original writing: https://realhottake.substack.com/Articles discussed:This Is What Climate Change Looks Like in an Era of Covid-19 The surprising reasons why people ignore the facts about climate changeThe curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 yearsTwo Tropical Cyclones Could Make US Landfall This WeekendCorporate TV news needs to break its cycle of shallow coverage of extreme weatherCorporate broadcast TV news fails to connect extreme heat to climate, COVID-19, or racial injusticeClimate Science Has a Blind Spot When it Comes to Heat Waves in Southern AfricaThe World’s Largest Tropical Wetland Is on Fire As Climate Change Burns Arizona, State Has More Imprisoned Firefighters Than EmployeesAccepting Death by Coronavirus or Climate Crisis Is Not an OptionTrump's Racist Coronavirus Response Foreshadows Injustice to ComeHow The Fossil Fuel Industry Funds The Police Big Oil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, July 26, 2020
Climate Bois Club, with Kate Aronoff
The New Republic's Kate Aronoff joins us to talk about the difference between political reporting and climate reporting, the link between fossil fuel divestment and defunding the police, and of course all the various types of climate bois.Subscribe to our newsletter for bonus content! https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, July 19, 2020
Mary and Amy Watched The Politician
The entire second season of Netflix series The Politician revolves around the issue of climate change and, despite a couple of big fails on the subject of race, it’s actually good. We dig into it in this coffee break episode.Bonus segment for subscribers includes a look at why Handmaid's Tale fails as an ecofascist cautionary tale, and a surprising revelation from Amy. Sign up here: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, July 05, 2020
Media in Meltdown and Climate in Crisis, with Kendra Pierre-Louis
The media is having a Me Too moment for journalists of color amid national protests against policy brutality and systemic, all against a backdrop of a climate emergency. NYT climate reporter-turned Gimlet podcaster Kendra Pierre-Louis joins us to talk about all of this and more. Plus: dad jokes, mayo edition!Subscribe for a bonus segment in which we talk about that crazy CBS "Karen" story, why it's so hard for national media outlets to criticize themselves, and why a certain Hot Take co-host doesn't know how to drive. https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wed, June 24, 2020
S2 Coming soon!
We're so excited to bring you Season 2 in July! We'll have new guests, a new format, and the usual combination of media criticism, climate trends, f-bombs and dad jokes. See you soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, June 05, 2020
Yes, It's Still Time to Talk About Climate
Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, some climate activists have been saying "now's not the time to talk about climate." In this episode we talk about how justice is justice, climate and racial justice are all the same thing, they can't be separated. To access the full-length episode, consider becoming a Hot Take premium subscriber: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, May 24, 2020
Kick Rocks, Elon
Elon Musk has done some great work making electric cars more of a reality in the U.S. But the hero worship of him can be dangerous, especially when it blinds people to his less-than-helpful moves when it comes to climate. Premium subscribers to our weekly newsletter got a whole feature on this last week, but there were still things we had to leave out, so ... bonus episode! If you want a weekly digest of climate coverage plus original analysis from Mary and Amy, make sure to subscribe to the newsletter! Subscribe: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wed, May 06, 2020
Season 1 Finale: Rum O'Clock
It's the S1 finale y'all! Mary and Amy wrap up the season with a look at the ever-evolving climate-COVID-19 story, coverage of climate for climate's sake, and pieces that provide inspiration to keep fighting on climate. Plus some rum-fueled rants and dad jokes, of course.Subscribe to our newsletter so you won't miss our curated reading lists, original writing and subscriber-only bonus episodes: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribeReading List:The US has a collective action problem that’s larger than the coronavirus crisis —Patrick Sharkey, Vox https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21216216/coronavirus-social-distancing-texas-unacast-climate-changePutin's Long War Against American Science — William J. Broad, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinformation-health-coronavirus.htmlThe Reason COVID-19 and Climate Seem So Similar: Disinformation —Amy Westervelt, Drilled News https://drillednews.substack.com/p/the-reason-covid-19-and-climate-seem‘We Needed to Go’: Rich Americans Activate Pandemic Escape Plans—Olivia Carville, Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/-we-needed-to-go-rich-americans-activate-pandemic-escape-plansThink This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming —Rhiana Gunn Wright, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/sunday/climate-change-covid-economy.html Upend the political power of carbon polluters — Leah Stokes, The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/opinion/upend-political-power-carbon-polluters/ The Green New Deal Is Cheap, Actually—Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-the-green-new-deal-is-cheap-actually-965794/What the 'Humans Are the Virus' Meme Gets So Wrong—Brian Kahn, Earther https://earther.gizmodo.com/what-the-humans-are-the-virus-meme-gets-so-wrong-1842934676I Am a Mad Scientist—Kate Marvel, Drilled News https://www.drillednews.com/post/i-am-a-mad-scientist People Aren’t Bad for the Planet—Capitalism Is—Izzie Ramirez, Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/world-on-fire/ecofascist-messaging-is-increasing-during-coronavirus-pandemic I’m pregnant during the coronavirus pandemic, and I’m terrified—Anica Brown, Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/20/opinion/im-pregnant-im-terrified/In a shrinking world, what will we pass on to our children?—Mary Heglar, The Boston Globe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thu, April 09, 2020
So This Is Purgatory, with Special Guest Co-host Eric Holthaus
Live from quarantine! Mary and Amy talk to The Correspondent's Eric Holthaus about how to remain optimistic, the ways corona and climate do and don't intersect, and why you can't sleep on climate just because there's another catastrophe unfolding.Reading ListWe're Not Just Stopping Coronavirus, We're Building a New World, by Eric Holthaus in The Correspondent: https://thecorrespondent.com/385/we-arent-just-stopping-coronavirus-were-building-a-new-world/50968856015-625b9768Trump Moves Forward On Biggest Environmental Rollback To Date Amid Pandemic Chaos, by Alex Kaufman and Chris D'Angelo in HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-auto-emissions_n_5e834685c5b6d38d98a50868States Quietly Pass Laws Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protests Amid Coronavirus Chaos, by Alex Kaufman in HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pipeline-protest-laws-coronavirus_n_5e7e7570c5b6256a7a2aab41Will Pandemic Relief Become a Petroleum Industry Slush Fund? by Amy Westervelt in Drilled News https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fundExxon Now Wants to Write the Rules for Regulating Methane Emissions, by Justin Mikulka in DeSmog https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/16/exxon-write-rules-regulating-methane-emissionsThe Analogy Between COVID-19 and Climate Change Is Eerily Precise, by Gilad Edelman in Wired https://www.wired.com/story/the-analogy-between-covid-19-and-climate-change-is-eerily-precise/What Climate Grief Taught Me About the Coronavirus, by Mary Annaise Heglar in The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/157059/climate-grief-taught-coronavirusThe Climate Crisis Will Be Just as Shockingly Abrupt, by Melody Schreiber in The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/157078/climate-crisis-will-just-shockingly-abruptHere's Why We'll Never Treat the Climate Crisis With the Same Urgency as Coronavirus, by Amy Westervelt in HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-climate-change-fossil-fuel-profits_n_5e786da4c5b6f5b7c547329eSorry, But the Virus Shows Why There Won't Be Global Action on Climate Change, by Jason Bordoff in Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-pandemic-shows-why-no-global-progress-on-climate-change/The Pandemic Isn't Fixing Climate Change, by John Sutter in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/opinions/pandemic-not-fixing-climate-change-sutter/index.htmlHow the Coronavirus Crisis May Hinder Efforts to Fight Wildfires, by Kendra Pierre Louis in The New York Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, April 05, 2020
Disaster Denialism with Guest Co-Host Dr. Samantha Montano
Disasterologist Dr. Samantha Montano joins to answer all our questions about the coronavirus pandemic, what it does and doesn't tell us about climate change, and why we can't take a break from worrying about climate.Reading List:Kushner Puts Himself in Middle of White House’s Chaotic Coronavirus Response, by Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Noah Weiland, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/us/politics/jared-kushner-coronavirus-trump.htmlTrump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook, by Dan Diamond and Nahal Toosi, Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285DHS wound down pandemic models before coronavirus struck, by Daniel Lippman, Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/24/dhs-pandemic-coronavirus-146884Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’, by Nahal Toosi, Daniel Lippman, and Dan Diamond https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797Dr. Montano's Twitter thread on the climate-corona intersection https://twitter.com/samlmontano/status/1243622585801355271?s=21Dr. Montano's reading list: http://www.disaster-ology.com/home/2020/3/27/march-28th-covid-19-emergency-management-curated-articles-list Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, March 22, 2020
March 22, 2020: Seeing Corona Through Climate-Colored Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
All the things the climate story has taught us, or not, about corona, with special guest co-host David Wallace-Wells. David is deputy editor of New York magazine and the author of The Uninhabitable Earth.Reading list:Coronavirus Poses Threat to Climate Action, Says Watchdog, Jillian Ambrose in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/coronovirus-poses-threat-to-climate-action-says-watchdogWhat Coronavirus Teaches Us About Climate Change, David Wallace-Wells in New York Magazine https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/what-coronavirus-teaches-us-about-climate-change.htmlClimate Change Has Lessons for Fighting Corona Virus, by Somini Sengupta in The NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/climate/climate-change-coronavirus-lessons.html We’re Getting a Clearer Picture of the Climate Future and It’s Not as Bad as it Once Looked, David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/climate-change-worst-case-scenario-now-looks-unrealistic.html The Coming Avocado Politics: What Happens When the Ethno-Nationalist Right Gets Serious about the Climate Emergency, Nils Gilman in The Breakthrough https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/no-12-winter-2020/avocado-politics White Supremacy Goes Green, by Beth Gardner in The NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/opinion/sunday/far-right-climate-change.htmlVigilantes in Greece Say ‘No More’ to Migrants, by Martina Stevis Gridneff in The NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/greece-turkey-migrants.html Coronavirus thread https://threader.app/thread/1220919589623803905 by Eric Feigl DingGood Grief, by Emily Atkin in Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/special_report/good_grief.php Are We Thinking About Climate Migration All Wrong? by Alexandra Tempus in Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/climate-migration-predicted-number-climate-refugees-962251/amp/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, March 15, 2020
March 15, 2020: Pandemic, Primaries, and Not Asking Permission, with Guest Co-Host Sarah Miller
Amidst a global pandemic and the meltdown of the U.S. Democratic primary, guest co-host Sarah Miller joins us to talk about how change gets made outside of existing systems. .Reading List; Heaven or High Water, Popula: https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/The Movie Assassin, Popula:https://popula.com/2018/09/30/sarahs-magnum-opus/Joe Biden's Sketchy Climate Record, The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/156801/joe-bidens-sketchy-climate-recordWhat Would Happen if the World Reacted to Climate Change Like It's Reacting to Coronavirus, Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90473758/what-would-happen-if-the-world-reacted-to-climate-change-like-its-reacting-to-the-coronavirusDetained at Gidimt’en: Inside the media confinement zone, Ricochet: https://ricochet.media/en/2927/detained-at-gidimten-inside-the-media-confinement-zoneA Pipeline Runs through Southern News Deserts, Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/atlantic-coast-pipeline-news-deserts.phpBetween the Devil and the Green New Deal, Commune: https://communemag.com/between-the-devil-and-the-green-new-deal/What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don't Matter Anymore?, Longreads: https://longreads.com/2020/03/11/what-do-we-do-with-feelings-now-that-they-dont-matter-anymore/Shell Is Looking Forward, New York Magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, March 01, 2020
Feb 2020: More Fucking Greenwashing! With Guest Co-Host Maddie Stone
Guest co-host Maddie Stone, Earther founder-turned-freelance science journalist talks us through the latest tech and climate angles. Plus: shifts in how financial reporters are talking about climate, the spread of climate misinformation, and media taps into the climate feelings of Gen Z.Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/171s0nlm8xvncu4/AAB9wsO7RJNFMnio5J3poKVva?dl=0Reading list: The High Stakes Fight Over Bolivia’s Lithium, Protocol: https://www.protocol.com/bolivia-lithium-morales$10 Billion? In This Climate?? The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/jeff-bezos-will-struggle-spend-10-billion-climate-change/606733/The Jeff Bezos Climate Superpower that's Bigger than $10 Billion Earther: https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-jeff-bezos-climate-superpower-thats-bigger-than-10-1841771004Once Again, Why Fossil Fuels Are on the Wrong Side of History Real Money: https://realmoney.thestreet.com/jim-cramer/jim-cramer-once-again-why-fossil-fuels-are-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-15227698Climate has emerged as a real political issue The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/poll-us-voters-really-do-care-about-climate-change/606907/Trump's Biggest Vulnerability Is His Climate Change Denial Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2020/02/trumps-biggest-vulnerability-is-his-climate-change-denial/Revealed: Quarter of all tweets about climate crisis written by bots The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/21/climate-tweets-twitter-bots-analysisBeware oil execs in environmentalists' clothing The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/14/oil-execs-environmentalists-bp-change-oil-climateGuardian to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis#show-draft-epicsIs Your Favorite News Source Shilling for Big Oil? The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/media-fossil-fuel-ads/How climate experts think about raising children who will inherit a planet in crisis The Washington Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sun, February 02, 2020
Jan 2020: No Chill
The first month of 2020 proves that the climate story has no chill at all. From the Australian bushfires to big important stories on everything from climate vision to radiioactive fracking, the story just keeps getting bigger and crazier. Special guest co-host Meera Subramanian joins Mary and Amy to break it all down.About Meera: Meera Subramanian is an award-winning freelance journalist whose work has been published around the world, and her first book is A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka, published in 2015 by PublicAffairs. She is currently serving as the president of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University.Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/171s0nlm8xvncu4/AAB9wsO7RJNFMnio5J3poKVva?dl=0Reading list:United in Change, Meera Subramanian https://orionmagazine.org/article/united-in-change/ It’s Not Just Australia, Rachel Ramirez: https://t.co/xCu8Qh7LUn?amp=1 ‘Scarier’ Than Hurricane Maria: A Deadly Earthquake Terrifies Puerto Rico https://t.co/Gwlecq5FhV?amp=1 At the 7th Democratic debate, candidates took every opportunity to talk climate, Zoya Tierstein https://grist.org/politics/at-the-7th-democratic-debate-candidates-took-every-opportunity-to-talk-climate/For the first time, the Alarmed are now the largest of Global Warming’s Six Americas https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/for-the-first-time-the-alarmed-are-now-the-largest-of-global-warmings-six-americas/ Emily Townsend's Resignation Email https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/10/news-corp-employee-climate-misinformation-bushfire-coverage-email We, the Media, must take some of the blame as Australia Burns, John Birmingham https://t.co/eIp4YB9aOO?amp=1 It's Not Arson, You Absolute Fucking Morons, Brian Kahn https://earther.gizmodo.com/its-not-arson-you-absolute-fucking-morons-1840862475 Pregnant Women are Asking for Ultrasounds in Australia, Gina Rushton https://t.co/XUTwPTsdWp?amp=1 The Concession to Climate Change I Will Not Make in the Atlantic, Jedediah Britton-Purdy https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/becoming-parent-age-climate-crisis/604372/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Noah’s Rainbow , James Murray https://www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/3084916/noahs-rainbow-raising-children-in-an-age-of-climate-crisis Amazon’s New Rationale for Working with Big Oil: Saving the Planet, Maddie Stone: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, January 10, 2020
2019: It's Go Time
2019 brought an explosion of climate coverage in a variety of forms, and from the broadest coalition of voices yet. The movement grappled with gatekeepers and finally looked honestly at its racist past. Good thing too, because with increasing disasters, growing eco-fascism, and a total absence of global political leadership on climate, we need all hands on deck. It's go time.Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/171s0nlm8xvncu4/AAB9wsO7RJNFMnio5J3poKVva?dl=0Reading list:Kanaka Maoli: Don't Mistake our Aloha for Weakness: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/kanaka-maoli-do-not-mistake-our-aloha-for-weakness-c0x8lkRr90miH95TkZcfZAPlastics: The New Coal in Appalachia? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022019/plastics-hub-appalachian-fracking-ethane-cracker-climate-change-health-ohio-riverCop Out: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/cop-out/I'm the 13-year-old Police Threatened to Arrest at the Kirribilli House Protest. This Is Why I Did It: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2019/dec/21/im-the-13-year-old-police-threatened-to-arrest-at-the-kirribilli-house-protest-this-is-why-i-did-it?CMP=share_btn_twEuropean colonization of Americas killed so many it cooled Earth's climate: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/31/european-colonization-of-americas-helped-cause-climate-changeThe Environmental Movement Needs to Reckon with Its Racist History: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjwvn8/the-environmental-movement-needs-to-reckon-with-its-racist-historyBlack Women Are Leaders in the Climate Movement: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/opinion/black-women-leaders-climate-movement.htmlWhat Listening Means in a Time of Climate Crisis: https://lithub.com/what-listening-means-in-a-time-of-climate-crisis/When the Hero Is the Problem: https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-when-the-hero-is-the-problem/Thunberg Isn't the Only Young Voice We Should Be Listening To: https://newrepublic.com/article/155861/thunberg-isnt-young-voice-listeningMeet the Young Activists of Color Who Are Leading the Charge against Climate Disaster: https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/10/11/20904791/young-climate-activists-of-colorWhy the Guardian Is Changing the Language It Uses about the Environment: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 20, 2019
2018: The Wake-Up Call
2018 brought massive change to the ways we talk about climate. Global climate scientists put out the most alarming report yet on climate change impacts and projections, and media covered that report with the seriousness it deserved. The climate movement finally started moving past the hope narrative, and with megastorms ramping up and a town called Paradise burning down, climate change became impossible to ignore. Reading List: The Atlantic, The Media Barely Covered One of the Worst Storms to Hit U.S. Soil, by Alia Wong and Lenika CruzOn Being, We Need Courage, Not Hope to Face Climate Change, by Kate MarvelSlate, Who is the WE in “We Are Causing Climate Change”? by Genevieve GuentherThe New York Times Magazine, Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change, by Nathaniel RichThe New York Times, A Man Set Himself on Fire. We Barely Noticed, by Nathan EnglanderThe Atlantic, Climate Change May Cause 26000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050, by Robinson MeyerThe Guardian Suicides of Nearly 60,000 Farmers Linked to Climate Change, Study Claims, by Michael SafiThe New York Times, A Warming World Creates Desperate People, by Lauren MarkhamThe New Republic, Climate Kings, by Samuel Miller McDonaldThe Intercept, There's Nothing Natural about Puerto Rico's Disaster, by Naomi KleinProPublica and Reveal, Flood Thy Neighbor, by Lisa Song and Patrick MichelsThe New York Times, California's Underwater Forests Are Being Eaten by the 'Cockroaches of the Ocean,' by Kendra Pierre-LouisVice, Sons of the Pre-Apocalypse, by Brian MerchantThe Guardian, Don't Despair: The climate fight is only over if you think it is, by Rebecca Solnit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, December 06, 2019
2016-2017 in Review: The Hangover
What happened in climate coverage in the lead-up to and aftermath of the 2016 election, how natural disasters rocked our world and our stories in 2017, Standing Rock, pieces that changed the narrative forever, and more.Stories discussed in this ep:ProPublica, "Houston's Perfect Storm" https://projects.propublica.org/houston/Rolling Stone, “Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming?” https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/can-new-york-be-saved-in-the-era-of-global-warming-240454/Sierra Magazine, “How Can We Talk about Global Warming” https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/how-can-we-talk-about-global-warming Chicago Review of Books cli-fi column https://chireviewofbooks.com/2017/04/13/11-climate-fiction-authors-favorite-books/Standing Rock; Eviction Letter to the Army Corps of Engineers by Harold Frazier of the Sioux http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/cheyenne-river-sioux-tribe-reacts-u-s-army-corps-engineers-eviction-notice-letter-makes-grave-dangerous-mistake/The Guardian, "I Was Arrested for Protesting," https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/03/i-was-arrested-for-protesting-my-idealism-did-not-prepare-me-for-that-experience Mother Jones, "“This is How Puerto Ricans are Talking about Climate Change” https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/09/heres-how-puerto-ricans-are-talking-about-climate-change/New York Magazine, "The Uninhabitable Earth," http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.htmlThe Atlantic, "Democrats are Shockingly Unprepared to Fight Climate Change" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/there-is-no-democratic-plan-to-fight-climate-change/543981/Inside Climate News, "Finding Middle Ground" series https://insideclimatenews.org/content/middle-groundThe Nearly Now, "The Smokestacks Come Tumbling Down" https://thenearlynow.com/the-smokestacks-come-tumbling-down-c03ba1294522Bitch, "The Least Convenient Truth" series https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/least-convenient-truth/climate-change-and-white-supremacyIsland, "Endlings" https://www.taswriters.org/wildcare-winner-harriet-rileys-essay-endlings/The New York Times Magazine, "How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself," Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Fri, November 22, 2019
Fangirl vs. Fangirl
In this intro episode, Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt share their own approaches to climate storytelling and what they love most about each other's work.Mary's work:The big lie that we're told about climate change is that it's our own faultI work in the environmental movement. I don't care if you recycle.Home is always worth itAfter the StormAmy's work:Of course U.S. birthrates are fallingThe Case for Climate RageWhy Are The New York Times and Washington Post Producing Ads for Big Oil?Drilled Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tue, November 19, 2019
Welcome to Hot Take
Climate change is the biggest story of our time. But sometimes we get so caught up in the story itself, we don't make time to talk about the storytelling ... how exactly are we understanding and processing this issue, and how do we ensure that conversations over both problems and solutions are productive? Welcome to Hot Take, a media criticism show about climate change coverage, with an eye toward making the conversation more productive, powerful, and inclusive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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