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BONUS AUDIO THIS WEEK: The complete interview with Dan Glass, the famous “Plane Stupid” campaigner from the UK. The crazy actions that highlighted the serious impacts of expanding airports and air travel. 32 minutes Lo-Fi 7 MB. Rockin’ out with the Steve Miller …
Three nuclear facilities in the United States hovered on the brink of catastrophe in the last month of June 2011 – due to climate change. Nuclear reactors and labs depend upon a relatively stable climate. A single accident could permanently withdraw a large …
The oceans are dying, says a team of top scientists. The causes are all human: overfishing wiping out key species, warmer waters from a warming world, dying coral which supported millions of species, pollution like fertilizers causing deadly algae blooms and dead zones, …
Meltdowns, storms, and ships crashing together on the high seas, this is Radio Ecoshock. For the coming months, we added dozens of new college and community radio stations to this broadcast, probably taking us to 50 more stations. I’m still counting. As you …
We wake up today, as every day, with an uncontrollable nuclear wound on the side of the world. Welcome to a more radioactive world. The truth is out. Three Japanese reactors are melting down. I’m Alex Smith. In this Radio Ecoshock special, you …
This week on Radio Ecoshock – the losing game. One in seven Americans are now officially poor. Millions are losing their homes. The “Recovery” was just a fantasy: if we all believed hard enough – the empty shell economy could stumble on forever. …
Around the camp fire, humans tell horror stories. About goblins, and dark conspiracies of death. Soon after the shock of the BP Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the cranks rolled out new tales that tell us a lot about the human …
NOTES AND LINKS FOR THIS WEEK’S SHOW: Why do media run “scandals” about climate science? They get full page ads from car and oil companies, and they don’t give a damn about our future. It’s all in the latest ratings, the quarterly profit …
Collapse is the new in thing. Columnists in collapsing newspapers write about it. Historians tell us it’s coming. Prominent economists predict it. We all expect it. What is collapse? Definitions vary from uncontrollable downturns, all the way to great culls in our population. …
Coming up on Radio Ecoshock – hot from Copenhagen, American energy – and the destruction of Africa. Two continents adrift in hard choices. We know climate change is upon us. It’s just a matter of how fast, and how bad. The struggle stretches …
Welcome to Radio Ecoshock. This week’s program is about schizophrenia: the state of hoping the system will crash before it kills the planet, while counting on all the usual creature comforts of home, jobs, and a well-stocked supermarket. Yes, I know the Western …