Podcast Episodes

The Black Thread, Ep 3: Challenging the Narratives

Season 14

In the third episode of The Black Thread, we explore where the facts do and don’t match up to the stories being told by Norway’s fossil fuel industry, amplified by it’s government, and legitimised th…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Drilling Deep: Karen House on How Saudi Arabia Has Changed Under MBS and What Those Changes Mean for the World

Season 14 Episode 8

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House, author of the new book The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Ara…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Carbon Bros: Abdul El-Sayed on Climate Complexities and Benevolent Masculinity

Season 13 Episode 6

We heard a little bit from El-Sayed in the final episode of our Carbon Bros miniseries, and today we're bringing you the full conversation.

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Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Black Thread, Ep 2 | Petroganda

Season 14

In the second episode of The Black Thread, we drill into “petroganda” – the pervasive phenomenon of oil industry manipulation that a growing number of experts and commentators suggest is at work in N…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy

Season 14 Episode 7

For decades, the meat and dairy industries managed to successfully avoid any attention for the planet-heating emissions they pump into the atmosphere; once governments started talking about regulatin…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

S14, Ep 6 | How the Coal, Utilities and Transportation Industries Obstruct Climate Policy

Season 14 Episode 6

The coal, utilities, and transportation industries have all mounted efforts to stop governments from regulating emissions or transitioning to cleaner energy. In this episode we look at how those effo…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians

Season 14

In this first episode of The Black Thread, we meet the Norwegians and explore how social norms and cultural values shape their identity as a good, caring, and nature-loving people. We also learn what…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

What Should You Do With Climate Despair? A Conversation with Wen Stephenson

Season 14

There’s no avoiding it: Things feel pretty bleak. To witness venture-capital-fueled AI domination, democracy’s steady drift toward authoritarianism, state-sanctioned genocide, and, of course, the col…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action

Season 14 Episode 5

Climate obstruction isn’t just something the fossil fuel industry does, but they’ve certainly spearheaded and masterminded a lot of efforts. In this ep, an academic (Kristoffer Ekberg, from the Unive…

Published on 2 months ago

S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction

Season 14 Episode 4

Obstruction would never have been as effective as it has been without the help of the PR industry and the willful ignorance of the media. Today, Melissa Aronczyk, of Rutgers University, and Max Boyko…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago