The U. S. spends eleven times as much money on border security than it does on climate action, according to Todd Miller, co-author of a new comprehensive report “Global Climate Wall: How the World’s Wealthiest Nations Prioritize Borders over Climate Action“. The “Border Industry” in the U. S. has been awarded over 100,000 contracts, as […]
Demonstrators Hold Multi-Faith Rally for Climate Change Action
Dozens gathered around the Wisconsin Capitol Building today for one mission: improving global climate health. The event, called Prayers for the Planet, was coordinated through Greenfaith — a worldwide, multi-faith coalition that seeks a better future for the health of our planet. Today’s rally featured eight speakers, with some demonstrators even bringing instruments, like the […]
A World Without Soil
For today’s show, Monday host Patty Peltekos speaks with Jo Handelsman about her new book, A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet. The Wisconsin Book Festival and the Wisconsin Science Festival are co-presenting a book event with Jo Handelsman this Thursday, October 21 at 6 p.m. […]
The Dangers of Fossil Fascism
“What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate change?” That is the question posed by a new book co-authored by Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective called White Skin, Black Fuel. For today’s show, we feature Friday host Esty Dinur’s interview with Andreas Malm about the rise of fossil […]
Latest IPCC Report – Climate Change is “Unequivocal”...
Tonight, the Perpetual Notion Machine continues the analysis of the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report. Our guest is Jonathan Patz, who studies the environmental health effects from climate change on the population in the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences at UW-Madison. He is also […]
Police Brutality Against Water Protectors
For today’s show, Friday host Esty Dinur is joined by Jill Ferguson, a Milwaukee-based water protector who was recently arrested with violent tactics at Camp Firelight for her participation in an action protesting Enbridge’s Line 3. Jill describes the brutal way she was treated by deputy Alexander Yocum and talks with Esty about police violence […]
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