Extinction Rebellion Radio

Extinction Rebellion Radio

Extinction Rebellion Radio is the voice of the climate rebellion, dedicated to covering weekly news and stories on the climate crisis through conversation, interviews and expert perspectives. *logo by Lili Allen ExtinctionRebellionRadio@gmail.com

Episodes

Learning to Live in the Dark with Wen Stephenson

August 18, 2025 • 55 mins
Wen Stephenson, who writes for The Nation (among other publications), has a new book out, Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Climate Catastrophe. There is so much despair and doom among people who understand climate change. One big part of the book--the part we focus on in this episode--asks about an earlier time that was likewise filled with doom and despair: the 1930s and 1940s. Wen considers how some of the major ...
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Climate Disasters of June and July 2025

August 11, 2025 • 28 mins
This week we recount the climate disasters from June and July—some of the significant destructions and disruptions that would not be happening without climate change. This is the latest of an occasional series showing that climate change is not a thing of the future. It’s a thing of the present. 
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright is Worse, but Shame on Carl Pope

August 2, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode we talk about the gigantic loss of old growth forests last year. Also, fossil fuel companies are claiming that destroying the environment is freedom of speech, first amendment protected - they're actually making this claim in court. And we look at some reprehensible statements by Sierra Club's former Executive Director. We call out the bad stuff when it's from environmentalists,  too.  
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Plastics: To Ban Or Not To Ban?

July 24, 2025 • 7 mins
A short reflection after doing the preceding episodes with Saabira Chaudhuri on plastics. We absolutely must stop producing material that never decomposes and can only be recycled a limited number of times. Otherwise plastics will inevitably cover the earth. Even wild science fiction scenarios aren't solutions. We're better off doing it sooner than waiting a few decades or longer to make the problem worse.
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How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic with Saabira Chaudhuri

July 17, 2025 • 75 mins
Saabira Chaudhuri was the Wall Street Journal's consumer goods reporter. Her upcoming book is called Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. We learn from her the origins of plastic as a mass consumer good after World War II, already known to big industry as a severe environmental problem by the 1960s, but pushed and pushed onto consumers. Big supermarkets replaced local shops and a disposable throw-it-away society came ...
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Grandmothers Who Get Arrested

July 6, 2025 • 28 mins
Just a short time ago, there were far more street protests, including confrontational civil disobedience where folks deliberately got arrested. We talk with two of them about the experience. As they explain, it's not about getting arrested. It's about bringing attention to the climate crisis that they fear will have a terrible impact on their grandchildren's lives. Through them we hear eyewitness accounts of an action that blocked ...
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A Rotobic ICE Hurts Our Climate Response

June 29, 2025 • 55 mins
We open with a comment on the Iranian bombings and what they have to do with the climate crisis, then move into the first of a two-part discussion on immigration and climate. The Los Angeles raids and protests are a great illustration of how ICE uses a robotic approach of not considering the social impacts of what they are doing. The thing is, there is a deep tradition of law enforcement trying to consider the social impacts of the...
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Speaking Out Even When You're Afraid

June 22, 2025 • 28 mins
After a quick note on what happens when there's no more insurance in a climate changed world, we talk about fear of speaking out. We start with the real life example of a wealthy and well-connected person with strong advocacy skills who is not speaking out against the Trump administration out of fear of what could happen to her grandchildren. We digest that and talk about how to feel fear and act anyway. 
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What They Can Do To Palestinian Activism They Can Do To Climate Activism

June 3, 2025 • 28 mins
Whatever authorities can do to one social movement they can do to another one. Watch what's happening to truth-telling about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That could happen in the future to truth-telling about climate change: Individual spokespeople detained or deported without hearings, academic studies de-funded, a society of fear where organizations anticipatorily crack down on what they imagine the authorities would object ...
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Could Lawsuits for Damages Close Down Fossil Fuel?

May 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Could lawsuits against fossil fuel companies save the climate? Maybe. If the companies had to pay for even a fraction of the destruction they are causing, they would quickly go out of business. Alycee (who is an attorney) and Matthew (who is not) discuss. Also, the utopia of being truthful, and our semblance of constitutional order.  
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Catching Up On Climate Disasters

May 12, 2025 • 28 mins
We periodically compile some of the climate disasters happening all around the world. This is to show that climate change is causing havoc now. It is a problem for us, not for our grandchildren. This episode consists of some notes on disasters I found in my files and, I believe, have not used; hopefully listeners will pardon the out-of-chronological narration. We end with a survival story we think you will never forget.
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College Students Doing Climate Research

April 27, 2025 • 54 mins
Most of the guests on this series are credentialed experts who are old, or at least not particularly young. But younger people research the climate, and reflect carefully on the situation. This week we have three students from the University of Liverpool who took a climate course last year that was taught by the producer of this show. One wrote her term paper about geoengineering, one about greenwashing, and one about plant-based d...
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Mike Berners-Lee on a Climate of Truth

April 20, 2025 • 54 mins
Mike Berners-Lee, the author of There Is No Planet B and other books, joins us to talk about his newest release: A Climate of Truth: Why We Need It And How To Get It. He makes the case for a no-tolerance attitude to dishonesty in politics, media and business. We explore and critique this with him. His core claim is that enforcing the highest standards of honesty in public discourse is the best chance of getting the necessary global...
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Why Tesla is the Wrong Target

April 6, 2025 • 28 mins
We're talking about Tesla vandalism: why the Trump administration's response is over the top, crazy, and absurd, and why the vandalism itself is a terrible idea. Electric cars and electric charging stations are the wrong target.
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Mutual aid when the disaster is politics

March 29, 2025 • 28 mins
In this episode, we look at the Trump administration's actions through the lens of our climate crisis and ask: how can we find ways to care for one another through the GOP's disastrous dismantling of our democratic institutions? In many ways, the effects of Trump's policies are (or certainly will be) as devastating to people's lives as hurricanes. Access to food, health care, housing, and other needs are being upended, along with t...
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Through and Beyond: Pondering Activism Under Trump

February 21, 2025 • 28 mins
We ponder what an extinction rebellion looks like under this new iteration of American politics, this new iteration of executive power, this new iteration of world affairs. The same basic dynamic of the climate crisis goes on: mass burning of fossil fuels cooks the planet and threatens extinction. But what we do in response might look different. What is mutual aid in the time of a so-called 'unitary executive'? How do we go through...
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USAID was a Climate Mitigation Organization

February 12, 2025 • 28 mins
Alycee rejoins the show discussing how USAID (the U.S. Agency for International Developmen) was doing climate mitigation work before it was ripped apart last week by the Trump Administration. We also cover some recent climate news and commentary including a report from a financial modeling company saying that $1.4 trillion in real estate value will be destroyed by the climate crisis. That's real estate only: how much value is going...
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Tariffs! No Tariffs! It's All About the Oil

February 8, 2025 • 28 mins
Whiplash on tariffs! Why did President Trump immediately reverse himself on tariffs, first with Colombia, then with Mexico and Canada? It's because he needs their oil. Colombia exports $5.4 billion in oil to the U.S, an amount that's dwarfed by Mexico and Canada. In fact the U.S. gets 60% of its oil from Canada. The tariff postponement has little if anything to do with border 'security' and everything to do with needing those fossi...
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Drill Oligarchy Drill

January 28, 2025 • 28 mins
There have been two major presidential addresses in the last two weeks and both had climate change at the center of them. Joe Biden's Farewell Address warned of a developing oligarchy bent on un-doing climate progress, and Donald Trump's Second Inaugural Address stoked outrage at our failure to recover from climate disasters. This episode explains how the way both presidents think and talk about climate could be fundamental to Amer...
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Why No Plan Would Have Stopped the Fires

January 24, 2025 • 28 mins
The fires around Los Angeles are obviously caused by climate change, Why wasn't there a better plan for combating them? I'm working on the theory that NO PLAN would have worked. It was not possible to respond quickly and effectively. There's a profound water shortage throughout the region, so they simply don't have enough groundwater to pump. The fire fighters may be well trained but if they don't have water there's not much they c...
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