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How Climate Activists Successfully Fight Obstruction
Despite growing repression worldwide, climate activists continue to stick it to obstructionists and drive change. In this season's finale, Jennie Stephens (https://www.jenniecstephens.com/) (University of Ireland Maynooth) and Sharon Yadin
How Litigation Works to Fight Climate Obstruction
It's bleak out there and while climate obstruction can feel overwhelming, there are efforts being made to fight back against it. One of them is litigation and holding corporations legally accountable. Joana Setzer (https://www.lse.ac.uk/gra
Drlling Deep: Uruguay's Renewable Energy System with Natasha Hakimi Zapata
More than a decade ago—when wind and solar power were far more expensive than they are today—Uruguay, long plagued by droughts and energy shortages, transitioned its entire economy such that 98% of its electricity now comes from renewable s
COP Out: What the Heck Happened at COP30?
We're bringing you episode 5 of Dana R. Fisher's COP Out podcast, from the Center for Environment, Equity and Community at American University, featuring our own Amy Westervelt and legendary climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe talking ab
How and Why Climate Adaptation Measures Get Blocked
Working against regulations on emissions might protect the economic interests of those with money to lose, but why would anyone fight against adapting to survive climate disaster? In the negotiating rooms at COP 30, adaptation was one of th
Carbon Bros Mailbag: Navigating Traditional Male Spaces and the Benefits of Solidarity
Daniel Penny and Amy Westervelt return for the Carbon Bros mailbag episode, answering listener questions from around the world about masculinity, traditional male spaces, vocational therapy, solidarity, and the role of gender in engaging in
Drilling Deep: Jessica Green on Why We Need More Confrontation at COP
After four decades of the United Nations climate conference COP, progress on global climate action remains slow. So what isn't working? How is it possible that so much fanfare, so many words, and so much work—much of it genuine and good-fai
The Corruption of COP: Inside Climate Obstruction at the UN
The United Nations' climate processes were created to drive global climate action, but from the beginning they've faced organized efforts to delay progress. As COP 30 begins, Kari de Pryck (https://www.karidepryck.org/about/) (University of
Norway Beyond Oil: Climate, Policy, Society
We look ahead to Norway's future, exploring how the country might begin to loosen oil's grip on its politics and identity. Hear how different voices envision aligning the country's actions with its values, its reputation, and the realities
How Climate Obstruction Works at the Local Level
Local governments are a double-edged sword when it comes to climate policy, with the power to either do far more or far less than national governments. They can be an agent of change or an agent of obstruction. Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo (htt
Climate Obstruction in the Global South
The United States is a global leader of climate obstruction, but it's not the only guilty country. M. Omar Faruque (https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/arts-fr-sociology/faruque-omar.html) (Queen’s University, Canada) and Ruth E. McK
Challenging the Narratives
Do the facts behind the narratives being told by Norway's fossil fuel industry, and government, add up? We hear experts critique some of the stories that keep Norwegian oil and gas pumping, while industry representatives explain the logic b
Drilling Deep: Karen House on Saudi Arabia Under Mohammed bin Salman
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House (https://www.karenelliotthouse.com/), author of The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia (https://ww
Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity
In this extended conversation, climate policy expert Abdul El-Sayed explores the complexities of the climate crisis and the role of masculinity in shaping how men engage, or fail to engage, with climate solutions. See https://omnystudio.com
Petroganda: How the Oil Industry Is Shaping Norway's Politics and Culture
A growing number of experts and commentators suggest "petroganda"—the pervasive phenomenon of oil industry manipulation—is at work in Norway, influencing the country's politics, culture, and support for the oli industry. We discuss how "pet
How the Animal Agriculture Industry Blocks Methane Regulation
For decades, the meat and dairy industries avoided scrutiny for the planet-heating emissions they pump into the atmosphere. As governments began considering methane regulation, the animal agriculture sector starting working on efforts to re
How the Coal, Utilities, and Transportation Industries Block Climate Policy
The coal, utilities, and transportation industries have all played a major role in stopping governments from regulating emissions or transitioning to cleaner energy. Examining how those effort have taken shape around the world, Jen Schneide
Introducing The Black Thread: The Norwegians
Over the next few weeks, we're sharing a new mini-series, The Black Thread, about Norway's complicated relationship with its identity as both a progressive leader and oil state. Social norms and cultural values shape Norwegian's identity as
Facing Climate Despair: How to Cope with Wen Stephenson
The climate crisis can feel overwhelming—to witness venture-capital-fueled AI domination, democracy’s steady drift toward authoritarianism, state-sanctioned genocide, and the collapse of one climate boundary after another is to encounter a
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action
The fossil fuel industry has undoubtedly played a central role in obstructing climate action through lobbying, impacting political influence, and spreading disinformation. Academic Kristoffer Ekberg (https://www.keg.lu.se/en/kristoffer-ekbe
How The Media Drives Climate Obstruction
Climate obstruction would not be nearly as effective as it is without the influence of the public relations industry and the willful ignorance of mainstream media. Melissa Aronczyk (https://sci.rutgers.edu/aronczyk-melissa) (Rutgers Univers
Why Misinformation Works: The Psychology Behind Climate Disinformation
Why does misinformation spread like wildfire—and why is it so hard to correct? Climate communication researchers John Cook (https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/1028119-john-cook) (University of Melbourne) and Dominik A. Stecula (htt
How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Fuels Climate Denial
Jesse Bryant (https://environment.yale.edu/directory/student/jesse-bryant) (Yale University) and Dieter Plehwe (https://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/dieter-plehwe) (University of Kassel) examine the growing connection between right-wing populism,
Why Political Will is the Real Barrier to Climate Action
Despite at least a decade of scientific certainty, proposed technological solutions, and policy measures, the world still hasn’t acted on the climate crisis. The problem is a lack of political will—and how it’s been intentionally obstructed
Drilling Deep: The Golden Age of Oil-Funded Influence with Casey Michel
Reporter Adam Lowenstein (https://www.adaml.blog/) talks with Casey Michel, author of Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World (https://bookshop.org/p/books/foreign-agents-how-american-lobbyis
The "Carbon Dominance" Strategy Behind Trump's Anti-Renewables Actions
Killing a nearly-completed offshore wind farm makes no sense, even for a climate denier who thinks windmills kill whales. Political economist Mark Blyth (https://home.watson.brown.edu/people/faculty/watson-faculty/mark-blyth) walks Drilled
Integration: Bringing Men Into the Climate Movement
The bros of the manosphere love to talk about "integrating" a man's warrior and civilized selves, but what would it look like to integrate men, and new ideas of masculinity, into the climate movement? Who is already doing this work, how can
Why Is the Fossil Fuel Industry Funding Anti-Trans Politics?
Special guest Vivian Taylor, a researcher on both trans rights and climate policy, joins us to share the the shocking connections between fossil billionaires and anti-trans campaigns. Turns out, it’s easy to distract people with genital ins
The SLAPP Heard 'Round the World: Standing Rock Verdict
The verdict in Energy Transfer's lawsuit against Standing Rock activists and Greenpeace (https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/) is announced, more than doubling the damages. At a time when repression of protest is accelerating in the United State
Climate Hysteria and “Boy Math”: Masculinity, Tech Fixes, and Gendered Climate Solutions
Stop listening to hysterical Swedish teenagers and start listening to reasonable men! Some dudes do have solutions to the climate crisis; they just don’t involve messy interpersonal stuff, changing their lifestyles, or reorganizing the glob
