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It comes around quicker every year, it's only International Biodiversity Day! To celebrate our United Nations mandated holiday we are throwing off our slippers, getting out the trowels from the shed and heading out into the garden with the tour de force that is botanist Josh Styles (@joshual95).  Josh is a long time friend of the show and founder of the North West Rare Plants initiative. A project to help reintroduce extinct or rare plant species to the North West.   On this most green of days we discuss if symbolic events are useful for causes? The success of the Lesser Bladderwort, How we can make our gardens and lawns more bio-diverse and rare plant friendly, why Hoylake Beach needs protecting and of course... plant STDs. LinksSign the petition to save the SSSI that Josh talked about hereHere's  a collection of botany and wildlife apps to help you out in the wild. iNaturalist https://www.inaturalist.org/Plant snaphttps://www.plantsnap.com/Save hoylake beackshout outLancashire Wildlife Trust @LancswildlifeSupport the show

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads is joined by Níall Glynn, founder of Working Class Economist Group(@TheWCEG).They discuss why he setup WCEG, Growing up in Manchester and Belfast,  how the working class became individualized, why having the opportunity to travel can help develop class and environmental consciousness and how and why the two need blending together.  Links Get involved in the Working Class Economist Group here Books mentioned in the show; Joseph Stiglitz - Globalization and Its Discontents Kate Raworth - Donut Economics Ha- Joon Chang - 23 things they don't tell you about Capitalism. Support the show

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads is joined by friend and hip hop artist Dan Marsden to discuss the aesthetics of the climate movement and how working class people may view them. In this episode Ads and Dan try to have an honest discussion about what does and does not resonate with the working class in regards to art, music and performance to try to understand better some of the reasons why people are not getting involved in the fight of lives.Dan  goes by the  stage name "Cheech" and is a part of the Hip Hop acts'Mothership Connection' and "Bluntskins". They kindly provided the tune "Hush One" for our outro music.  Check out links to their music below. Check out Dans music hereSupport the show

It's gonna take some big ideas and even bigger actions for humanity to swerve the 2°C warming climate catastrophe coming down the road. So this week we're taking half the world away. Joining us on the podcast are Drew Pendergrass (@pendergrassdrew) and Troy Vettese (@TroyVettese) the authors of "Half Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics".  Their book combines half earth re-wilding and the rich history of Utopian Socialism to illustrate a way of saving the earth from humanity and combating our hubris and domination of nature itself. We discuss the works of Otto Neurath, Leonid Kantorovich and Stafford Beer; using neoliberal thinking against neoliberalism, how and why Malthusian ideas on over-population are embedded into society and the problems that arise from it, and how to  create more efficient food chains through global veganism.LinksPick up a copy of half earth socialism from Verso books Here Check out Drew and Troy's website for more info: https://www.half.earth/Play the Half Earth Socialism the gamehttps://play.half.earth/Shout outsUAWD - United All Workers for  Democracy @UAWD_ReformTroy's girlfriend XinyueMinesh Parekh - congrats on being elected for Crookes and Crosspool in Sheffield@min_eshFianna Hornby GND Councillor elected for Gorse Hill in Trafford@fiannahornbyAngela Brown GND Councillor elected in Heywood@Angel4brown598Support the show

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form.So, each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads is joined by youth worker and community activist, Zara Manoehoetoe (@indigenousmanc). They discuss the relationships between working class people and the police compared with the relationship that the climate movement has with the police. They also discuss abolitionism, the importance of imaging what comes after revolution,  how working class protests need to up their game, and what happens if protests become outlawed (spoiler) you protest harder.Support the show

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form.Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads is joined by Khushi  Himatal who has recently joined the climate youth movement after becoming disillusioned with the revolutionary left. We discuss Marxism, working class heroes, what the climate movement can learn from the working class and the working class of the global south. Support the show

The big push by governments in the Global North for a move to electric vehicles (EVs) seems to be one of the central planks of the decarbonisation effort of capitalism. Rare earth minerals such as cobalt, lithium and nickel are strategic resources in this transition and play a huge part in the creation of EVs and the batteries that power them.  The Largest deposits of these elements can be found in the global south and particularly central Africa in places like the Congo. This week on the show we are joined by Anneke Van Woudenberg (@woudena) the CEO of RAID, a NGO that looks to hold corporations to account for their human rights and environmental abuses in the global south (@raidukorg).  We discussed the horrific working conditions of miners in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the envrionmental damage of this resource extraction: how multinational companies like Glencore are abusing their position in  DRC , the struggles of the labour movement organising in DRC, why taking these corporations to court in the UK is more effective than Congolese courts and what are the limits of  justice.Linkshttps://www.raid-uk.org/RAIDs report on Cobalt mining in Congo. read it here. Industriall Union  Miners Union in Congo Lucha- Congolese Youth group Apple and Google named in Human rights abuses and child labour in Congolese Cobalt mining Shout outsCAJJ- who've been working with RAID on their recent report https://www.cajj-rdc.org/public/homeDan WeegmannSupport the show

Our Ads is on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form. Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads is joined by Jay Chambers, a friend of the family who grew up in Blackley where Adam is from. Topics discussed are the differences between North and South Manchester, when they both first saw a wealth divide in Blackley, music, art, language, and how outreach programmes may be the key to connecting Working Class people to the climate movement.Check out the rest of Jays music here:  https://soundcloud.com/jaycmcr/blackley-boySupport the show

Our Ads in on a mission to understand why the working class is so hesitant to get involved in the climate movement in its current form.Each week he'll be talking to climate-conscious people who identify as working class to discover their thoughts on how working class people can become a force in the fight for our very survival.This week Ads chats with an old Labour comrade Rebecca Pollitt. The themes for this episode centers around the contrasts between working class meetings and environmental meetings, the effectiveness of protests, spirituality and oneness and what working class movements can learn  from the environment movement.Support the show

With the UN IPCC Working Group 3 report coming out last week, and it explicitly saying economic growth will be a prevailing factor in burning the world into a crisp, it’s time to ask again: what are the alternatives? How do we build societies that don't have fossil-based growth at the heart of them?This week on the show we are joined by Timothée Parrique (@timparrique). Timothée's writings include his PhD “The political economy of degrowth”, which is he currently writing as a book adaptation, and “Decoupling debunked - Evidence and arguments against green growth”, a report for the European Environmental Bureau (EEB). We discuss the upcoming French elections (recorded before the results of the first round), degrowth in the latest IPCC report, the language of degrowth vs a Green New Deal, and why growth is a poor way to describe economic behaviour.Check out our Just As Well series of articles with great writers across the world looking at just transitions. LINKSDelphine Batho - French presidential candidate on degrowth during a primary last year:https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2021-09-09-delphine-batho-pleads-for-degrowth-in-the-face-of-the-climate-emergency.H1dgs0PzF.html1972 Donella Meadows' report, The limits to Growth:https://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdfIPCC Group 3 report https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/The social shortfall and ecological overshoot of nations https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00799-zThe World Happiness Index https://worldhappiness.report/SHOUT OUTSScientist rebellion@ScientistRebel1The one and only Julia Steinberger (all the love to your mum right now) @JKSteinbergerBen Crawford  Suzie lawrence - our fantastic illustrator for the Just as Well series@zanillustrationSupport the show