Green Majority Radio

When it comes to climate change, the rich will profit off the very thing they protect themselves from. This week we discuss corporate security, protest surveillance, the Canadian state and climate refugees.

We talk about prison labour and agriculture, and then sit down with Sabrina Bowman, the executive director of GreenPac, a non-profit organization working to elect and support environmental leaders of all major parties running for office. Kimberly D’Oliveira joins us again in the third segment to discuss new developments toward a circular economy.

We talk about the armed militia rallying in support of delinquent Republicans in Oregon, the role of social media in the political divide, schadenfreude, and harnessing the power of coding for social purposes.

Justin Trudeau has approved the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline a day after declaring a ‘climate emergency’. We look at various perspectives on TMX and the climate crisis and discuss Grassy Narrows, the dangers of environment reporting, and justice in the context of the Green New Deal.

With Trudeau’s Trans Mountain decision looming, we look at Jason Kenney’s petroleum speech and the youth activists who penned letters to the Prime Minister. The Sustainable Economist Tim Nash joins us to discuss recent as well as long-developing trends in sustainable investment.

We sit down again with Professor Stephen Scharper of the University of Toronto to discuss ‘visions of a good life’, methods for listening deeply to nature, and how we can transform our apocalyptic visions into prosperous ones. Also on the table is the ecstatic celebratory energy of the universe.

This week we talk about tornadoes, flooding, heatwaves, wildfires, mercury poisoning, rebellious high schoolers, freedom gas, William Happer & political polarization.

We discuss some fresh studies on global warming and a host of plastic and trash stories. In our second segment, we interview five members of Apathy is Boring, a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy.

We discuss our growing predicament and the discrepancies between political and public sentiment, via stories about the atmosphere, the arctic, Extinction Rebellion, clean energy, coal, Canadian politics, air pollution, Uber, Trump and US politics.