Green Majority Radio

We’ve said it before but it’s still true: we all need to think about how to live differently. This week we talk climate despair, imagination, land rights, coal, renewables, investment, fuel efficiency, coal miners and “green” corporatism.

We begin with the Mauna Kea protests in Hawaii and an oil spill off Newfoundland, then move into a two-segment rebuke of an article from Mark P. Mills arguing that the green energy transition is ‘magical thinking’.

When it comes to climate change, the rich will profit off the very thing they protect themselves from. But in Canada, we like to stare mesmerized at the glowing ghost of our own self-perceived benevolence - so it may not matter to us in the end. This week we discuss corporate security, protest surveillance, the Canadian state and climate refugees.

We sit down with Our Time organizer Amara Possian to discuss her ten years of green activism in Canada and where we could go from here. Our Time is a national campaign led by young people and millennials who are championing a vision for a Green New Deal for Canada — an ambitious plan to tackle climate change and inequality together.

Certain systems were never meant to work for certain people. We talk about prison labour and agriculture, and then sit down with Sabrina Bowman, the executive director of GreenPac, a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to elect and support environmental leaders of all major parties running for office. Kimberly D’Oliveira joins us again in the third segment to discuss new developments toward a circular economy. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

We talk about the armed militia rallying in support of delinquent Republicans in Oregon, the role of social media in the political divide, schadenfreude, and harnessing the power of coding for social purposes. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

Justin Trudeau has approved the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline a day after declaring a ‘climate emergency’. We look at various perspectives on TMX and the climate crisis, and discuss Grassy Narrows, the dangers of environment reporting, and justice in the context of the Green New Deal.

With Trudeau’s Trans Mountain decision looming, we look at Jason Kenney’s petroleum speech and the youth activists who penned letters to the Prime Minister. The Sustainable Economist Tim Nash joins us to discuss recent as well as long-developing trends in sustainable investment.

We sit down again with Professor Stephen Scharper of the University of Toronto to discuss ‘visions of a good life’, methods for listening deeply to nature, and how we can transform our apocalyptic visions into prosperous ones. Also on the table is the ecstatic celebratory energy of the universe.

“During the French revolution mothers flooded the streets for their children. Today we children are fighting for ourselves, but so many of our parents are busy discussing whether our grades are good, or a new diet or what happened in the Game of Thrones finale – while the planet burns,” - Student protesters. This week we talk about tornadoes, flooding, heatwaves, wildfires, mercury poisoning, rebellious high schoolers, freedom gas, William Happer & political polarization.

We discuss some fresh studies on global warming and a host of plastic and trash stories. In our second segment, we interview five members of Apathy is Boring, a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy.

We discuss our growing predicament and the discrepancies between political and public sentiment, via stories about the atmosphere, the arctic, Extinction Rebellion, clean energy, coal, Canadian politics, air pollution, Uber, Trump and US politics.

We discuss the new biodiversity study, Canada’s own Green New Deal, permafrost, greed, and the importance of community radio. Brody Robinmeyer joins us in the last section to talk about the environmental movement in Hamilton and beyond.

We outline the serious bad kind of funk that Canada will be submerged in if we don’t get our act together on climate change. Topics include Jeremy Corbyn, terrorism charges for pipeline protestors, new tar sands regulation, the secession of Alberta, trees, and burning plastic.

We talk about ongoing climate protests, Greenland, the financial sector, indigenous water protectors in Nova Scotia and BC, New York City’s Green New Deal, super plants, the rebirth of rivers, the importance of community radio and plumply sexy parrots

We discuss the international rebellion for climate action and its social implications, as well as Jason Kenney and Doug Ford’s strange campaigns against the environment. We have Kimberly D'Oliveira on in the second segment to talk about circular economics, and then we talk with Andrew Davies, executive director of No. 9 Contemporary Arts & The Environment. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

Mass climate movements are growing quickly around the world and are gaining pluck as they grow in volume. We begin with a look at the Biosphere, North America’s one and only environment and climate change museum, and its potential as an international hub for climate innovation. We then talk about the urgency of three major new movements: Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise and the Fridays For Future school strikes, and finish with an interview with Stuart Basden, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

White nationalism and white supremacy are on the rise worldwide. We look at the link between the alt-right and their chosen spokespeople, anti-environmentalism, the climate denial machine and international and Canadian politics. Learn more at www.greenmajority.ca

Starting again with the continuing disaster of Cyclone Idai and its implicate global justice issues, we analyze the environmental movement from a social justice lens, then turning to the oil industry and our increasingly monopolized food systems. We end with an interview with Aube Giroux, the documentarian behind the new film, Modified.

Climate refugees are many, and are only increasing in number. We talk about Cyclone Idai, Trump, underwater wildfires, microplastics, oil spills and miraculous birds.