Amplifier: An Undeniable Climate Emergency Podcast

We talked with Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby, who specializes in working with Pacific Island communities and governments to prevent the collapse of coral reefs in the face of climate change and associated mass coral death due to bleaching. He goes deep into the processes he uses to help prevent and restore coral reefs and how these wonderful marvels of nature are not just important to the seas, but for all life on earth. #Coral #CoralBle...

Join us for this incredible conversation with Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, Iñupiaq from NW Alaska, enrolled member of the Noorvik Native Community, Virginia Tech professor and communications and rhetoric scholar. We talked about the importance of language revitalization, the ongoing struggle for sovereignty for Indigenous Arctic peoples in the face of the climate emergency, and how educational spaces can be both beneficial to Indigenous...

We had a wonderful discussion with Henri-Count Evans, lecturer at the University of Eswantini, who is an emerging scholar in journalism, climate change and environmental humanities, and media studies. We discuss the transition away from fossil fuels in Africa, the responsibilities of the Global North for helping Africa adapt to a crisis created by the Global North, along with different theoretical approaches to climate change commu...

Join us as we talk with Senegalese meteorologist Dr. Aïda Diongue-Niang, a Vice-Chair of IPCC's Working Group I. We explore the the disparities between  Africa's negligible contribution to global heating while being most vulnerable to the devastating impacts; the inadequacy of the resources being provided for adaptation; and exploring how West Africa can build a truly sustainable and prosperous future based around the nee...

We talk with Lina María Forero Suescün, a climate communicator, Indigenous sovereignty and gender researcher from Columbia, about how Indigenous and women's rights are not just linked to the climate emergency, but are essential to tackling it and should be centered in the climate movement globally. We also discuss how learning to grieve for our dying planet is crucial to learning how we might save it.

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Join us as we talk to the wonderful Dr. Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, about the value of human life in the face of climate crisis, the politics of research,  the importance of solidarity and mutual aid, and how those struggles can help movements win broader political change, in Puerto Rico and beyond. He's smart, passionate, and gave us a lot to think about as we orga...

Join us as we talk with Dr. Elkanah Babatunde, a Research Fellow in the University of Cape Town’s Global Risk Governance program who focuses on climate justice in Africa and global environmental governance. We dig into the challenges for burgeoning nations in transitioning away from fossil fuels, and the many hypocrisies of the global north lecturing Africa on how they should organize that transition, naturally, to benefit corporat...

Today on Amplifier we talk to Monica Araya, one of the BBC's most influential inspiring women, and the Executive Director of the European Climate Foundation (https://europeanclimate.org/). She is an emissions-free transportation advocate, and has been influential in making Costa Rica a leader in fossil free energy. She is incredible, and has done way too many amazing things to list here, so come on in and let her tell you hers...