A true-crime podcast about climate change.
Law & Order meets the climate crisis.
A podcast about the way the PR industry helps corporations shape the world.
A holistic, irreverent, honest look at the climate crisis and all the ways media and society are talking—and not talking—about it.
S15, Ep2 | The Ethanol Kingpin of Iowa
The not so humble beginnings of a global corn empire.
S15, Ep 1 | The Carbon Goldrush
How Iowa’s ethanol kingpin broke into the Brazilian ag scene.
On Petromasculinity and Protest
Repression of protest and authoritarian leadership are key markers of fascism and handy tools for the fossil fuel industry.
Never Let a War Go to Waste
War, fossil fuels, and American identity have always been inextricably linked.
10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is It Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists in Honduras?
Despite some prosecutions, the criminal masterminds behind the Indigenous leader’s murder remain at large, while illegal land grabs, international finance and attacks against defenders continues with impunity across Honduras.
How the Backlash to Climate Protest Laid the Groundwork for What We’re Seeing in U.S. Cities Today
It’s easy to feel like climate “doesn’t matter” as the U.S. descends into fascism. It matters more than ever.
S14, Ep10 | The Corruption of COP
A look at how polluting industries infiltrated global climate processes from the beginning, and how it works today.
S14, Ep9 | Climate Obstruction at the Subnational (Local) Level
Local governments are a double-edged sword, moving things forward on climate when they stall at the national level but also throwing up major obstructions to national policy when they want.
S14, Ep8 | Climate Obstruction in the Global South
What climate obstruction looks like when it’s coming from the countries experiencing the brunt of the climate crisis.
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S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
On “ag exceptionalism,” backlash to the EU’s Farm to Fork proposal, the impact of the Livestock’s Long Shadow report, and more on the animal ag industries’ concerted push to block climate policy around the world.
S14, Ep6 | How the Coal, Transportation, and Utilities Industries Obstruct Climate Policy
The coal, transportation, and utilities industries have unique approaches to obstructing climate policy, and often combine forces as well.
S14, Ep5 | How the Fossil Fuel Industry Sabotages Climate Action
No surprise here: the fossil fuel industry has blocked climate policy at every turn. And yet, their tactics are still surprising.
S14, Ep4 | The Media As a Tool of Climate Obstruction
It’s unlikely climate obstruction would have worked as well it has without the participation of the media.
S14, Ep3 | The Psychology of Misinformation: Why Does It Work So Well?
In a lot of ways the disinformation crisis we’re dealing with today started with climate obstruction.
S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate
Jesse Bryant and Dieter Plehwe join to walk us through the intersection of rightwing populism and climate obstruction.
Welcome to the World of Obstruction
Everyone agrees that the reason the world hasn’t acted on climate has less to do with science or technology than with political will. So, how do you build it? And what’s stopping it being built?
SLAPP’d Episode 6 | The SLAPP Heard ‘Round the World
The verdict shocks even those prepared for the worst, and raises serious questions about free speech in the U.S.
Carbon Bros, Ep 3: Climate Hysteria, Doomers, and Boy Math Solutions
From techno quick fixes and visions of abundance to carbon capture and geoengineering to doomerism and colonies on Mars, we take a look at how gendered notions of the climate crisis have led to individualized, “masculine” approaches to solving it.
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S1, Ep5 | Fun With Front Groups
A brief history of astroturfing
S1, Ep4 | The Birth of SponCon
How Big Oil created the advertorial
S1, Ep2 | Ye Olde Crisis Actor Myth
Claiming the people protesting your company are hired actors: a strategy as old as the hills
S1, Ep6 | How a Standard Oil PR Guy Shaped Post-War America
As WWII came to a close, American corporations launched a new battle.
S1, Ep1 | Fake Experts and Real Bacon
Meet the godfathers of PR
S1, Ep3 | A Tie Is a Win
The origins of science denial
Messy Conversations: How to Talk to Kids about Climate Change, with Mary Annaïse Heglar — a Mini Hot Take Reunion!
Mary Annaïse Heglar's first book is out today, and it's a children's book about climate change. It's the first of three climate books Mary has coming out in the near future (the other two are a novel, called Troubled Waters, and an essay collection of Black writers on climate). She has been busy writing up…
S3, Ep34 |F$#k, Marry, Kill Big Oil
Our last episode of Hot Take
S3, Ep33 | The Zombie Apocalypse Is Real
Zombie viruses, pipeline fights, the degrowth movement, biodiversity and more.
S3, Ep32 | Won’t Someone Think of the Children
Rebecca Nagle joins to walk through recent cases threatening Indigenous sovereignty, the Landback movement, and why Indigenous issues are so undercovered.
S3, Ep31 | Tis the Season to Want Nothing
A Christmas conversation about the need to change how we consume, with Aja Barber.
S3, Ep30 | Call the COPs
With every COP more fossil fuel influenced than the one before, Mary and Amy wonder if it might be time to move on from the annual conferences.
S3, Ep29 | No Country for Centrist Dems
How the midterms shook out for climate.
S3, Ep28 | Every Election Is a Climate Election, with Rihana Gunn-Wright
Shifting political narratives around climate.
S3, Ep27 | Election Spooktacular
The climate implications and nuances in key midterm races
S3, Ep26 | On the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Guest co-hosts Drew Costley and Sara Sneath join Mary for a discussion on climate and communities.
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