Extinction Rebellion Podcast

Latest Episodes:

News from a World in Flux Ep. 27: International judges back climate justice, the cost of decarbonisation, and narrative wars Aug 21, 2025

Show notes

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 27: International judges back climate justice, the cost of decarbonisation, and narrative wars
In this episode Clare and Charlie discuss the recent ICJ ruling on the obligations of states, the new OBR Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report, the role of narrative framings in the climate culture war, and Clare's recent trip to Lorentz to workshop strategy.
REFERENCES
ICJ ruling on obligations of states:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/icjs-climate-ruling-goes-far-beyond-legal-battles-between-ztcje/
OBR Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/obr-net-zero-is-much-cheaper-than-thought-for-uk-and-unchecked-global-warming-far-more-costly/
What messages might Reform be vulnerable to?
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/p/what-messages-might-reform-be-vulnerable?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
Democratization of provisioning systems by Julia Steinberger https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2024.2401186#abstractart
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate! https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 26: What are we going to eat? Jun 02, 2025

Show notes

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 26: What are we going to eat?
In this episode Clare and Charlie discuss the food sector and its vulnerability to climate change and other future shocks.
REFERENCES
Inside Track investor memo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tATFmJG0wOtLDHxionMX0qNEXw49tjRl/view
Guardian article about the food industry is actively campaigning against the changes it needs to secure its own future with PR disinformation campaign against Eat-Lancet report
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/11/pr-campaign-may-fuelled-food-study-backlash-leaked-document-eat-lancet
George Monbiot Guardian article on stockpiling
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/britain-food-supply-donald-trump-stockpile
Birmingham Food council report into food insecurity
https://www.birminghamfoodcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/A-perilous-innocence_adaptation-plans_26-03-2025_2nd-edition.pdf
Hay food assembly
https://hayresilience.org/
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate!
https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 25: Wet bulb disasters, importing trees, and prison update May 13, 2025

Show notes

NEWS FROM A WORLD IN FLUX
Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 25: Wet bulb disasters, importing trees, and prison update?
In this episode Clare and Charlie discuss new research into when wet bulb temperatures become dangerous to humans. Charlie shares his own study into the need for conservation by assisted colonisation as climate change disrupts native ecosystems. Clare gives an update on the status of imprisoned activists in the UK. And a new book by Scientist for XR is revealed.
REFERENCES
Dr Andrew Forrest AO speaking at the Boao Forum Asia about Wet Bulb temperature effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=pxT_YuaOgi4stWrH&v=kigyFOj7HUw&feature=youtu.be
Validating new limits for human thermoregulation
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2421281122
Future of forests in the UK and the need for assisted colonisation paper
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70027
Guardian article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/19/the-world-is-getting-hotter-could-helping-englands-trees-migrate-northwards-protect-them-climate-aoe
Reuters: Greenpeace director on 10 yr possible charge for criminal damage
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-police-arrest-greenpeace-uk-head-over-red-dye-protest-us-embassy-group-2025-04-10
Buy Scientists on Survival
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/scientists-for-survival-scientists-for-xr/7678861?ean=9781789297324
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate!
https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 24: How to talk about the climate crisis from the head of UN Climate Comms Apr 21, 2025

Show notes

EPISODE 24: How to talk about the climate crisis from the head of UN Climate Comms
In this special episode of News from a World in Flux, Clare Farrell is joined by Martina Donlon, Global Climate Communications lead for the United Nations. Clare and Martina discuss the challenges of climate communications in the current geopolitical situation and the role of climate movements in driving change.
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate!
https://chuffed.org/xr/uk
Extinction Rebellion UK: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/

News from a World in Flux Ep. 23: What should we do next? Mar 29, 2025

Show notes

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 23: What should we do next?
In Aug 2023 in Episode 1 of NFAWIF Clare and Charlie discussed Project 2025. Trump’s now been elected and is dismantling the US state and backtracking on all climate action, while in the UK, Labour has gone all in for growth over the environment. Banks and big businesses are rolling back their climate commitments, and FF companies are rolling back their renewables targets. We should be making serious progress by now, but instead we’re going backwards. So in this episode Clare and Charlie ask: where next for the climate movement?
References:
Gail Bradbrook Analysis
https://buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbrook/so-now-what
Humanity Project
https://humanityproject.uk/
XRUK strategy
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2025/02/03/xruk-strategy-2025-26/
Climate populism
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2025/02/its-time-for-climate-populism
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate!
https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 22: Unexpected warming, legal success, and how many will die Mar 19, 2025

Show notes

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 22: Unexpected warming, legal success, and how many will die
This time, Clare and Charlie cover a new scientific paper warning that global warming is accelerating, the bad framing of bats and newts vs growth, the legal cases brought against the government concerning new fossil fuel infrastructure and a report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries into climate risks.
References:
New Hansen paper - global warming has accelerated 2C is dead
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-change-target-of-2c-is-dead-says-renowned-climate-scientist
January was +1.75C
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/06/hottest-january-on-record-climate-scientists-global-temperatures-high
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries paper on climate risks
https://actuaries.org.uk/media-release/current-climate-policies-risk-catastrophic-societal-and-economic-impacts/
---------------------
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate!
https://chuffed.org/xr/uk
Extinction Rebellion UK:
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/

News from a World in Flux Ep. 21: Does protest work? Feb 05, 2025

Show notes

News from a World in Flux Ep. 20: Doom loops, missing clouds, and activist repression Jan 12, 2025

Show notes

Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.
EPISODE 20: Doom loops, missing clouds, and activist repression
This time, Clare and Charlie explore the 'doom loops' of climate change and geopolitical instability as coined by Laurie Laybourn and James Dyke, the connection between clouds and the recent pulse in global heating, and another report into the state of activist repression around the world.
References:
Doom Loops
https://theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-of-climate-change-and-geopolitical-instability-is-beginning-244705
Activist repression
https://bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristol.ac.uk/dist/f/1182/files/2024/12/Criminalisation-and-Repression-of-Climate-and-Environmental-Protests.pdf
Please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate! https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 19: Sustain Salone ft. Brima Conteh Dec 27, 2024

Show notes

EPISODE 19: Sustain Salone ft. Brima Conteh
In this episode Clare Farrell talks to founder of Sustain Salone, Brima Conteh about the Global South experience of the climate crisis via his work in Sierra Leone.
If you found this useful please, share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, and donate! https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

News from a World in Flux Ep. 18: What does 1.5 °C actually mean, carbon capture, and Labour's climate fail Nov 29, 2024

Show notes

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Extinction Rebellion Podcast

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected