Planet B: Everything Must Change – Episode 4 (Water)

How have we come to see our oceans as either a vehicle for trade or a site of limitless resources? In the fourth episode of Planet B, host Harpreet Kaur Paul asks why water, the most basic necessity of life, always has a price. Instead of treating the ocean as a space for frictionless accumulation, can we imagine a "blue new deal" that refuses to carve up water into routes and resources controlled by the most powerful? This episode features insights from Tina Ngata, an advocate for environmental, Indigenous and human rights based in Te Ika A Maui (the North Island of New Zealand), Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, Elif Saracan, an activist for the Kurdish Womens Movement, and Elizabeth Johnson, a Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Produced by Freddie Stuart. Music and sound by Ben Heyderman. Illustrations by Tomekah George. Design by Pietro Garrone. In partnership with Novara Media and the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London.