The Musical Activist Episode 1: Julia Steinberger

In Episode 1, I talk to Julia Steinberger, a Professor of Social Ecology who I met on Twitter and who has written a persuasive and emotionally direct blog.  I hope you enjoy listening. Full references here:

1. The intro track Look at the Sky is from my first album We’re inside and outside: listen here https://sarahnicolls.bandcamp.com/track/look-at-the-sky and read more here http://sarahnicolls.com/recordings/
2. The IPCC Special Report, which is deemed ‘conservative’ by all climate scientists gives us only 12 years to completely stop emissions: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
3. I mentioned an environmental arts charity I worked for in Brighton: onca.org.uk
4. Lamb, W. F. and J. K. Steinberger (2017). "Human well-being and climate change mitigation." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 8(6): e485-n/a.
   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.485
5. Julia’s blog: https://medium.com/@JKSteinberger/an-audacious-toolkit-actions-against-climate-breakdown-part-1-a-is-for-advocacy-7baa108f00e9
6. Blog pt 3: https://medium.com/@JKSteinberger/an-audacious-toolkit-actions-against-climate-breakdown-part-3-i-is-for-individual-f510ee035e13 featuring the excellent tweet by Kate Aronoff
7. Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/ and here, https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/countries/ ,you can see the 150 different doughnuts of countries around the world, including the ‘best case’ Vietnam.
8. 3D Interactive website: ‘Explore scenarios’ https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/explore-scenarios/ Where you can change life expectancy vs use of resources etc. 
9. George Monbiot: Out of the Wreckage https://www.monbiot.com/2017/08/01/out-of-the-wreckage-2/ If you’re time-limited, at least check out especially the bits about extrinsic and intrinsic values (pp.7-9) and the new story (pp.25-6).
10. https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/
11. Explore the different scenarios at: https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/explore-scenarios/
12. O’Neill, D. W., A. L. Fanning, W. F. Lamb and J. K. Steinberger (2018). "A good life for all within planetary boundaries." Nature Sustainability 1(2): 88-95.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0021-4
13. The policy idea of Basic Income chimes with the idea of us spending our time doing things that are useful in different ways to keeping the current machine going. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
14. A nice, funny film about how to talk to people with different values about Climate Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=aCZcphy4EkU from Climate Outreach https://climateoutreach.org/resources/public-engagement-1-5c-ipcc-sr15/
15. Molly Scott Cato MEP has a lot of brilliant ideas: http://mollymep.org.uk/
16. Corrections on numbers: The time to regrow branches of mammalian tree of life is vaguer than we thought: "millions" not "10 million" as Julia said. The time it's going to take us to roll back the planet's climate clock: 50 million years is actually 2100 under current emission trajectories, not 2050 as I said. 3 million by 2030 is correct.
17. Time-lapse film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBikbn5XJhg
18. The Day After Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku_IseK3xTc Studio: 20th Century Fox Director: Roland Emmerich Screenwriter: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff. Cast inc Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal
19. Sydney Azari quote
20. Kate Aranoff’s brilliant tweet in in Blog pt 3 above
21. The really nice decision tree “So, you’re ready to take action against climate change?” https://grandgather.com/2018/10/14/so-youre-ready-to-take-action-against-climate-change/ by J Fercrelli, also see below
22. https://rebellion.earth/ and local groups: see main website and facebook
23. https://350.org/ You can donate to help their fossil fuels divestment programme.