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Extinction Rebellion Radio
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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 [email protected]
Episodes
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Trump Threatens "Annihilation?—Why Isn't Everyone Talking About This?
In the United Nations Genera Assembly, of all places, President Trump threatened to "annihilate" Iran and to ensure "no future generations." He is suggesting nuclear holocaust on the most severe level. For the President of a nuclear superpower to make such a threat is the biggest news of the…
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The Strange Case of a Trump Pardon and Electric Trucks
Amid other climate news in this episode: One of the more bizarre pardons President Trump has issued came for a man who claimed he was making electric trucks when he was not. The bizarre circumstances of this case show nothing bad at all about the climate tech industry. In fact, they prove there…
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Houthi Attack: One More Reason to Stop Oil Dependence
A rebel group on the Arabian Peninsula called the Houthis have seized the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the narrow strip of water between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. This is the corridor for a vast amount of global shipping, the way from Asia to Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Yet another major...
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Climate Disasters of September 2026
To avoid forgetting immediately about the climate disasters that are ending and disrupting life all around the world, this episode continues the occasional series of recounting what the climate crisis is doing right now. We cover the glacial collapse in Nepal and Tibet, Typhoon Dolphin shutting...
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Europe's Climate Suicide and Venezuela's Oil 'Agreement'
Europe just had the summer from hell, and incredibly, they have changed E.U. policy to allow MORE carbon emissions, not less. Their land will burn faster and their rivers will dry up faster as a result. This is climate suicide. Also, our comments on the US-Canada trade war, and the US-Venezuela…
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Climate Disasters of August 2026
We continue to run down the list of what the climate crisis is doing right now in unsparing detail. This month's tally includes the enormous wildfires in France and Spain, the largest those countries have ever seen. The fires went right up to the outskirts of Bordeaux and Madrid. Less widely...
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Communication Breakdown: News Media and Climate Scientists
In this episode, we criticize the way news media report climate science, AND the way that the scientists express it. We have a communication breakdown. The message that volatile weather is due to climate change isn't coming through clearly in news coverage. So scientists (myself included) : let's...
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Climate Disasters of July 2026
Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know that climate change is causing devastating weather, drought, and heat, and it's all piling up in July. From a flood in Accra, Ghana to drought-fueled fires throughout Britain to atrocious air quality across the midwestern and eastern United States,...
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Looking Back on our Last Chance to Adapt to Climate Change
Alycee and Matthew talk about the EMPTY promises of Cop 26. Governments from around the world gathered in Glasgow to perform a ritual of talking about climate change while doing absolutely nothing to tackle halt our unfolding climate emergency. As the world faces increasing climate catastrophes...
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Organizing Around Health and Climate Change
"Close the 1.5 degree Celsius gap to stay alive." That's a quote straight out of a World Health Organization report, a report we discuss in this episode. No mincing words. No sugar coating. Just the plain truth: To stay alive, we must close the 1.5 degree Celsius gap. We'll also be speaking with...
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Climate Disasters of March-June 2026
Let's take a look at what climate change has already caused. We do our best to convey the level of destruction and disruption that is happening now. Heat waves, fires, super typhoons, mass evacuations in almost every part of the world. We list it all off, just from recent months (March-June 2026…
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Alberta Declaring Independence is Bad for the Climate
Alberta, rich in tar sands oil, has a referendum coming up on whether to secede from Canada. Is Canada really so irredeemable that you want to permanently sever yourself from all of its institutions? Even if the answer is yes, what about that large country bordering you to the south with a...
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What Planet is Interior Secretary Doug Burgum On?
What planet is Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on? Not this one. He's recently said that renewables are unaffordable, unsecure, and unreliable so we should use only oil and gas. I wish I was making this up. He has it precisely upside down: It's fossil fuels that are unaffordable, unsecure, and...
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Climate Disasters of February 2026 and the Latest Heat Waves
What is climate change doing to the planet, and the humans and animals who live on it, right now? We answer this question listing some of the major floods, fires, and fatalities of recent months, skipping ahead to the latest heat waves that broiled Europe and spoiled July 4 celebrations in much…
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Re-Thinking National Security for the Climate Changed World
With the help of one of the world's leading scholars on international relations, we try to re-think the concept of national security for a climate changed world. As the world sees one climate catastrophe after another, it becomes clear that the things we care about cannot be secured by people…
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A Hostile Obituary for the ExxonMobil CEO Who Burned the World
Lee Raymond was one of the great mass murderers in the history of the world. A longtime executive, President, and CEO of ExxonMobi and the mastermind of climate denialist misinformation, he was an ecocidal lunatic who seemed to believe in making more money No Matter What, even if it killed…
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Seven Reasons to Doubt the 'Deal' with Iran
This week, there's a supposed-maybe-hinted-at 'deal' with Iran that's getting more sustained attention than the last time there was supposedly a 'deal' with Iran. Even if this agreement does materialize, there's a whole lot of reasons to doubt that it's going to work. This episode explains seven…
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The Iran War is Back, and Why We Can't Stop the Economic Fallout
We're back to active hostilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz. We're back to very active hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza. In looking at the fallout, the second half of this episode argues that the inflationary pressure from fossil fuels is stronger than central banks can contain. Even...
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The U.S. is Losing the Iran War, and How They're Handling That
The United States is losing the Iran War. They tried to prompt a popular uprising, to change the regime, to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, to extract a promise of no nuclear enrichment. All that has failed. Iran actually extended its fuel blockade to the Emirati port outside the Strait. Now the...
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Ben Leffel on Climate Deniers
Ben Leffel, public policy professor, was with us last episode to talk about cities making efforts to cut their emissions. Those were the good guys in the story. This week we get to the bad guys: climate lobbyists seeking profits, and climate deniers.
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What Cities Can Do About Climate Change (with Ben Leffel)
Ben Leffel, who researches climate policy for a living, is with us for two episodes. This is the first, mainly about cities and what city governments can do on climate. It's probably more than you think. These are the good guys in the story. Next week's episode features the bad guys.
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The Most Expensive Natural Disaster Canada Ever Had, and Much More
This week we complete our conversation with Shooka Bidarian, Environmental Correspondent for Marjan Television, an Iranian news network not based outside of Iran. We hear about that time that every Democrat in the U.S. Senate voted against basic climate action - that was the Kyoto protocol. And...
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Besides the War, How's the Climate Crisis in Iran?
Besides the war, Iran is in deep crisis over climate change. Climate is severely impacting the country ecologically and politically. Our guest is Shooka Bidarian is Environmental Correspondent for Marjan Television, a Farsi-language network based in London. She received the Alfredo Sirkis…
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We Must Never Forget the Threat to Destroy A Civilization
In this episode we further reflect, process, try to comprehend how the President's threat to wipe out an entire civilization has weakened the United States and the world. It's weakened it economically, militarily, but above all morally. No one thinks he was joking. What does it mean for humanity...
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Which is More Unstable: The President, or the Global Fuel Supply?
Let's pose the question: What is more unstable? The mind of the President of the United States, or the global supply of fossil fuels? Recent events have shown that both are highly, highly unstable. The President's profanity-laced social media posts threatening to wipe out an entire civilization...
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What Climate Change is Doing to Coffee and Social Lives, Among Other Topics
In this episode we talk about some expected and unexpected bits of fallout from the climate crisis. One unexpected bit is what could happen to coffee shops and the social interaction that happens around them if, as expected, we lose a huge amount of the viable land that goes toward coffee...
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Climate Disasters of December 2025 and January 2026
This installment in our occasional series on climate disasters covers the early part of winter 2025 into 2026, including the massive winter storm that pummeled and froze solid the eastern half of the United States"yes that was linked to climate change, including Iran literally running out of…
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Soup-thick Ocean Water, and Much More Climate News
A big grant for J.D. Vance's favorite Ohio factory to convert from one fossil fuel to another, warming oceans so soup-thick with mucus that sunlight can't penetrate them, police attacking migrant small boats utterly failing to understand the problem, and much more in this commentary on climate news.
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Why Oil and Gas Prices Will Stay High For A Long Time
Many analysts predict that oil prices and general inflation will go back down after the Iran war ends. This episode argues that's wrong, for three main reasons: First, a hostile posture will continue for the next generation even if the bombing stops. There is no real off-ramp into long-term…
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Azerbaijan vs. Iran over the Climate Crisis
One of the countries Iran bombed in retaliation for the Israeli-U.S. attack is Azerbaijan. This country exports oil that doesn't need to go through the Strait of Hormuz. It has water supply tensions with Iran going back years, and these tensions are caused by climate change. This week we speak…
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A Senseless War Against Iran
This episode makes three points that aren’t getting explained well in the media coverage or in social media discussions. First, this is about fossil fuels. Iran and the Straight of Hormuz that it controls would be infinitely less strategic, and the fallout of this war infinitely less severe for...
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The Climate Response to the State of the Union
We offer a climate-oriented response to Trump's most recent State of the Union address. In contrast to the opposition party's response, this one has no poll testing, no superficial point-scoring seeking votes or quotes, and no partisanship. We talk about the bloody rhetoric, the in-chamber...
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America's Racial Karma with Larry Ward
In this interview Larry Ward, author of the book America's Racial Karma, connects his Buddhist analysis of race in the United States to the climate crisis. The conversation shows how the suffering of the earth entangles with the patterns of America's struggles with race; both proceed from...
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Greenland: The Climate Change Explanation
Let's talk about Greenland, before everybody forgets about it. Less than a month ago, the United States was almost in a military standoff with eight European countries, two of them nuclear powers. The E.U. was threatening to cut off all trade with the United States, which would have caused a...
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Climate Disasters of October and November 2025
The world is beset by floods, fires, inundations, mudslides, landslides, gas explosions, on and on. We chronicle them here to share with the world just how extensive this is, at present, right now. It's somewhat mesmerizing to listen to. This episode covers approximately the end of summer 2025.
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The Worst Polluted Air in the History of the World
Delhi, the capital city of India, has the worst air quality ever measured. The super-massive carbon emissions make the daily air as gray as fog. This week we talk with Yukti Singh, a physician born and raised in Delhi, who grew up breathing this air. Not only does she have first hand information...
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Oil Imperialism is Worse than the Old Imperialism (In Some Ways)
We're still digesting the recent events in Venezuela. There is way too much to say not to do a second episode about it. Last week we argued this was straight up colonization. This week I'm challenging listeners a little bit by suggesting that because this new oil imperialism is so clear cut…
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Straight-up Colonizing Venezuela
What's happening in Venezuela is colonization for oil. There's no secret agenda, they're not hiding it, it's what they say it is: an attempt at direct control of the largest reserve of oil in the world. It's backed up by a naval blockade and a threatened invasion. The Trump administration isn't...
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Climate Disasters of August and September 2025
This is the latest in our occasional series running down the climate disasters that are happening now, presently. We hope to convey the level of destruction and disruption that climate change is creating across the world right now. It's not a problem for the future or for our children or...
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Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change
With the help of Marina Rivera Ramos of Rutgers University, we explore indigenous perspectives that are relevant to climate change. The place-based collective continuance has lessons for how we might live differently from how we do. If we had based more of our society on these indigenous world...
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There Will Be No Global Collaboration on Climate Change
We analyze the train wreck that was COP30 and predict the train wreck that will be COP31. At COP30 the toilets didn't work, the venue flooded before it caught on fire, and nothing of substance was agreed. For COP31, they couldn't even agree on where it would take place. These are the United...
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Pre-Cop in Milan, Solidarity with Brazil
This episode is in solidarity with the recent indigenous demonstrations at Cop30 in Brazil. Before there was the climate conference known as COP, there was Pre-COP, a negotiating meeting between second-tier delegates held in Milan, Italy. Extinction Rebellion made a protest, blocking traffic,...
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COP 30 Has Already Failed and More Billions for Bill Gates
COP30, the United Nations-sponsored global conference supposedly trying to address the climate crisis, has already failed to make progress. We explain in this episode how the flagship fund to protect the rainforest went splat, how the conference itself cut down part of the rainforest, and how no...
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Burned by Billionaires: Wealth Concentration and the Climate with Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins has just released a new book this month, "Burned by Billionaires: How Wealth Concentrated Wealth and Power is Ruining Our Lives and Planet." As we discuss in this episode, there are three main ways billionaires are ruining things: first, enormous energy consumption by billionaires;...
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Real Zero vs. Net Zero [Re-Broadcast]
Terms like net zero, real zero, absolute zero, carbon neutrality, and so on refer to radically different things. Professor Doreen Stabinsky from the College of the Atlantic joins us to explain the differences and articulate why approaching real zero quickly is the only way to avoid massive global...
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Cutting Emissions by Rationing Fuel
We cannot keep on driving fossil fuel-based cars in massive numbers without limit and expect the planet to be livable in the future. So what would it mean to ration gasoline? How would we do that? How would we do it with the least amount of disruption to society? This episode offers some…
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Cutting Emissions by Rationing Electricity
This week we talk about how to cut emissions by rationing electricity. It looks like that's going to be the only way to get industrialized countries to seriously cut their power consumption. For decades we've asked businesses and people to cut their energy consumption and it hasn't worked. Energy...
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We Can't Say We Support Palestine Action
Anyone in the U.K. who says they support Palestine Action could face a terrorism charge and years in jail. Although this is completely separate from climate activism, if the authorities can do it to one group they can do it to another. Also Russia has sold almost one trillion dollars of oil and…
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Running Out of Stuff
There really are places running out of water, but they don't seem to be genuinely conserving the little bit they have. As we face the looming potential of an electricity shortage, we're certainly not cutting our electricity consumption. On the contrary, it's going up. Are we going to keep on with...
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Learning to Live in the Dark with Wen Stephenson
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...
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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 [email protected]
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