Climate & Justice Podcast Recommendations🪸

Discover five podcast episodes at the intersection of justice and climate

Podcast artwork for Have You Heard George’s Podcast?, Invisibilia, From The Embers, The BlindBoy Podcast, and Scene on Radio

Curator:

👉🏽 Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis (she/her)

Why this theme?

👉🏽 I co-wrote and co-produced a podcast with Impact Studios about learning to swim as an adult while living in one of the hottest places in the world, Western Sydney, Australia. Check out Sink of Swim.

Here, many people spend summer in busy air-conditioned shopping malls or sweltering in black-roofed homes instead of at the beach. In making this podcast, I’ve realized that we need to tell diverse stories about our city because access to swimming in extreme heat is now a social justice issue.

Podcast Picks

Have You Heard George’s Podcast? podcast cover art

This is my favourite podcast and this episode goes to the heart of how justice, inequality, and the everyday lives of the Grenfell community are linked.

We hear George talking to a close friend who is struggling as a school teacher and single mother. The plot twist had me in tears.

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Not everyone feels connected to water. Its history is complex for Black communities. So this image of a Black mermaid and host, Kia Miakka Natisse, learning to free dive in the ocean is intoxicating and empowering.

To break free from a slump during the pandemic, she travels to South Africa for the experience, and while she doesn’t find all the answers, she does discover a new sense of freedom, identity, and self.

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Heatwaves and fires are traditionally Australia’s deadliest disasters, but with the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles recently, we’re reminded that it’s a truly global issue.

And at a time when “media” has become a dirty word, and so many radio journalists around the world continue to lose their jobs, it is comforting to see how a tiny, community radio station was so vital to a town during one of Australia’s worst fire seasons. 

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This Irish host — a voice of rebellion and agency — speaks out on colonialism, mental health, and other issues that matter to me.

In this episode, he provides an illuminating history lesson into how despite the efforts of the late Jimmy Carter, the rise of children’s television in the late 70s was really about creating a generation of consumers.

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As someone from the Nigerian diaspora, I know first-hand that climate change is a complex topic — some of us see it as human-driven, and others as divine.

Scene On Radio is an exceptional series that unpacks the most unsettling issues of our day, from climate change to racism, by looking at history and the structures that undergird society. In this episode, we get to hear the voice of a Nigerian environmental journalist speaking to farmers, traditional nomadic herders, and a real estate agent who deals in beachfront properties in “the Miami Beach of Nigeria” — about the impact of rising oceans, sinking homes, and disappearing farmlands.

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Spotlight

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Zach Mack and his dad are living in separate realities, and it's tearing their family apart.

Like so many Americans, Zach's dad has gotten swept up in conspiracy theories. After years of circular arguments, father challenged son to a bet: $10,000 on ten politically apocalyptic predictions that would all happen in 2024.

In this three-part series, we follow Zach on an intimate journey to bring his father back from the rabbit hole.

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