This chapter delves into the movie 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline', highlighting its themes of climate activism and sabotage. It also touches on real-life instances of activism and shifts to discussing the 50th anniversary of hip hop, questioning its progressive nature in spite of its challenges with homophobia and misogyny.
Climate activists have tried marching and lobbying. Now, a growing flank of movement radicals want to take more extreme action. Author Dana Fisher tells us who they are, and sociologist Matthew Wolfe traces the history of radical environmentalism in the US.
Today's episode was produced by Avishay Artsy with an assist from Siona Peterous. It was edited by Miranda Kennedy and fact-checked by Jon Ehrens. Our engineer is Patrick Boyd.
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