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The 64 Year Climate Change Cover-Up

Big oil knew about greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change more than half a century ago – but instead of sharing the information, they lied and undermined its veracity. That’s according to a newly published book THE PETROLEUM PAPERS by investigative journalist Geoffrey Dembicki. The book documents how, as far back as 1959, renowned physicist Edward Teller warned Robert Dunlap and other oil executives, about the global impact that greenhouse gases would have on temperatures, melting ice caps, rising oceans and largescale environmental destruction. Even while Exxon’s own scientists were warning of the catastrophic effect that climate change would cause around the world, their executives were spending millions of dollars “trying to convince people the emergency wasn’t real”. 

Recorded 2/14/2023

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Geoff Dembicki is an investigative climate change journalist based in Brooklyn. His new book The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change, was named one of the 2022’s top 10 books by the Washington Post.

Alyssa Johl, Vice President, Legal for the Center for Climate Integrity will discuss the various litigation battles which are currently underway. Several State Attorney Generals and countries, including the Philippines, have taken law cases against oil companies for the damage inflicted by global warming. 

Delta Merner is lead scientist for the Science Hub for Climate Litigation at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She provides timely, scientific evidence to support legal cases that hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate-related damages. Merner reviews legal communications for scientific accuracy, and leads trainings for scientists working at the intersection of climate science and law.

What price can be levied on big oil for the damage they have caused to the planet and its populations – especially if they were aware of the impending threat?

Learn more:

Understanding climate change: knowledge vs belief

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Environment

Eco-Anxiety

Does the future plight of the planet keep you up at night?  Are you filled with a sense of doom regarding your future or the uncertain future of your children?  You’re not alone.  Young people are particularly susceptible to this mental anguish and Greta Thunberg, was one of the first of her generation to speak publicly of her eco-depression.

  • Arno Kopecky
  • Theresa Marteau

Canadian journalist Arno Kopecky and Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behavior and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, discuss some of the options we have available to us in responding to this huge global challenge, and they address the pessimism and hope attached to the outcome of the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow.

Kopecky, author of the THE ENVIRONMENTALIST’S DILEMMA: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis, asks if hope is naïve or indispensable. 

Marteau examines what is necessary in terms of our individual and collective behavior that will make change possible. Her recent paper in the British Medical Journal suggests ways we might reach net zero by 2050.

Climate Grief: The Emotional Toll of Climate Change

Recorded 12.2.2021

Eco-Anxiety

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The Day The World Stops Shopping

What are we willing to give up in order to save the planet?  And what would happen to our economies and our lives if we seriously committed to consuming fewer of the Earth’s resources?  

Recorded 10/20/2021

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Canadian author of The Day the World Stops Shopping James MacKinnon is on a mission to get us to buy a lot less stuff but insists that even reducing our consumption by just 5% would make a big difference and we would barely notice the shift. 

J. B. MacKinnon teaches journalism at the University of British Columbia and makes documentaries.  He enjoys exploring the intersection between the wired and wild worlds, and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Vincent Stanley from Patagonia, co-author of the The Responsible Company will join the conversation.   Stanley affirms that businesses should make useful, long-lasting products in a socially and environmentally responsible way.  What do you think?

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How To Start A Revolution

Writers Lauren Duca and Martin Lukacs, author of The Trudeau Formula, discuss collective action and non-violent protest with members of the climate action group, Extinction Rebellion. 

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Recorded 12/4/19 WGBH Forum Network VIDEO

L>R Lauren Duca,author of How to Start A Revolution, Martin Lukacs,author of The Trudeau Formula, Calla Walsh, 15 year old activist for Extinction Rebellion, Michael Fogelberg, Extinction Rebellion, Mary Stack, CF

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Normalizing Denial

The climate science debate is heating up

Bill McKibben, author, educator, founder of 350.org
Dr. Gretchen Goldman, Research Director, Center for Science and Democracy
Tim DeChristopher, climate activist
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, minister and Boston-based activist
Moderated by Wen Stephenson, author and writer, The Nation

Co-sponsored by Cambridge Climate Research Associates

Recorded January 11, 2017

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