As per last review Boiling Point, the LA Times podcast on climate, remains a must listen.
In the latest episode “Fighting Climate Change in an Authoritarian Age” (29 mins) Sammy Roth interviews James McCarthy, a geographer at Clark University. It’s nicely done. McCarthy references a 2019 special issue of the Annals of American Association of Geographers.
Here’s his editorial – Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment: Comparative Experiences, Insights, and Perspectives
And here’s the table of contents of the issue itself.
The “Energy Gang” is for energy (policy) wonks, and owned by Wood McKenzie, but usually good value (it gets a bit breathless sometimes, falling into horse-races and hype, as these sorts of podcasts are wont to do). This one – “It’s looking bleak for clean energy in the US as Congress threatens to shred the Inflation Reduction Act” – had useful stuff on the Big Beautiful Bill and so on. A new four letter acronym for you – FEOC – Foreign Entity Of Concern.
Finally, and best of all is the Los Angeles Review of Books “radio hour” on “Writing Climate Fictions” from August 2024 (so, before the Pallisades etc burnt).
It was a panel with David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake.
There was a shout out to an interesting sounding novel called Denial by John Raymond.
They chewed on various topics of course. This included hypocrisy at one point and how it is used to deflect, but didn’t (understandably because they have never heard of it) use the concept (okay MY concept) of the “Hypocrite-Zealot Trap.“
