CLIMATE ACTION SHOW  JULY 10TH 2023

Produced by Vivien Langford

HOPE LIES IN RESISTANCE

You'll die waiting for a climate election

Guests:

Blockade Australia's Munro, Wenzel and Jem who arrested the flow of commerce in the ports of Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane over the last week of June.Videos Archives - Blockade Australia

Professor Emeritus Rob White - University of Tasmania. He is an expert in Transnational Environmental Crime

His recent book with John Van der Velden is-The Extinction Curve- Growth and Globalisation in the Climate Endgame. The Extinction Curve | Emerald Insight

We talk about Eco socialism and regaining democratic control of the essentials for survival, energy, water, land. The blockaders have thrown down the gauntlet. The banks and government subsidies are accelerating climate change. Is it unthinkable that they could be brought under democratic control?

We explore how capitalism is the root cause of climate chaos. Rob describes democratic nationalisation  and how we  can produce and consume only what we need.

Dr Elizabeth Boulton  - Security Theorist. Her work, based on her experience in military logistics, sees the climate emergency as the central threat of our age. Destination Safe Earth

She says " It’s no use propping up a broken model. In the way that explorers of old set sail for unknown lands, it is now time for Humanity to break off the trajectory, and forge out a new path… to Destination Safe Earth.

However, instead of setting out to plunder, take and destroy… this time, humanity sets out, enmasse, to repair, rebuild and protect…"

Music : Warrior by Meraki Mae Warrior // Meraki Mae – The Environmental Music Prize  Do watch this video featuring the Bentley Blockade and the Lismore Floods