Climate in Disguise: Podcast Recommendations🌏

Five podcast episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Curator

Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt, hosts of Hot Take

Why did you choose this theme?

Climate change is not an isolated story. It influences everything and everything influences it. Therefore, we're all talking about it all the time whether we know it or not. 

PODCAST PICKS:Click on the podcast art to listen 👂

RevealAmerican Rehab: A Desperate Call

In its American Rehab series, Reveal delves into the dark side of rehab programs that exploit, rather than treat their patients. In lieu of therapy, patients are sent out to work in dangerous jobs with no pay 

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and guess who takes advantage of these people? Fossil fuel companies!  

Behind the BastardsPart One: Christopher Columbus: Bringer of the ApocalypseIn their series on Christopher Columbus, Behind the Bastards details the building blocks of colonialism and the beginning of the ethos of profit over everything. This ultimately led to companies like Chevron being able to shirk their responsibility to a livable planet. 

Floodlines

The phenomenal podcast Floodlines from The Atlantic details the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which was arguably one of the first major storms of the climate change era in the United States. The podcast clearly and painfully spells out how and why the disaster played out along strict and stark racial lines and acts as a harbinger of our world today. 

Scene on RadioTurning the Lens (Seeing White, Part 1)In this episode, hosts talk about the creation of race, particularly whiteness and white supremacy, in order to understand the climate crisis.

This LandSolomon's SwordErosion of tribal sovereignty was a key first step on the road to the climate crisis, and that battle continues today. In this season of This Land, Rebecca Nagle walks listeners through a case that's headed to the Supreme Court right now that threatens to undermine tribal sovereignty in one fell swoop. 

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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

Calling Bullsh!t

Have you ever looked at a company and thought 'Wow! Their mission is so inspiring. I'd love to support them!' But then a few months later you read the news and discover they're actually doing the opposite?In Calling Bullsh!t, the weekly podcast about purpose-washing, we explore the gap between what companies say and what they do

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And, what they would need to change to practice what they preach. 

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PODCAST NEWS from Podnews

• The IAB Tech Lab is now requiring annual re-certification from podcast companies. In a note that has appeared sometime over the past month on the IAB’s website, the IAB says it “is updating its compliance program to require annual recertification”.

• Kenyan podcasting studio and incubator SemaBOX has been critical of the size of Spotify’s $100,000 African Podcast Fund. “Frankly speaking they can give 10 times the amount they are offering”, said CEO Dan Aceda in The Star.

• Growth-oriented podcast hosting platform Captivate has just announced a significant increase in its tier download limits, all of which have been at least doubled.

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