Planet: Critical
Planet: Critical is the podcast for a world in crisis. We face severe climate, energy, economic and political breakdown. Journalist Rachel Donald interviews those confronting the crisis, revealing what's really going on—and what needs to be done. planetcritical.substack.com
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Episodes (242)
Crisis Policies: What We Need From COP27 | Laurie Laybourn
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Why Scientists Choose Activism | Charlie Gardner
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The Most Sustainable Economy in the World | Kate Raworth
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Making Sense of the Meaning Crisis | John Vervaeke
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Building Democracies for the 21st Century | Matt Leighninger
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Alternatives To Capitalism | John Harvey
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The Future is History | Jon Alexander
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Overpopulation: From 8 billion to 3 | Phoebe Barnard
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Power vs People | Robbie Watt
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How Systems Malfunction | Trevor Hilder
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The Limits of Human Wisdom | George Mobus
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Bright Green Lies | Max Wilbert
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The Politics of Land | Chris Smaje
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Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck
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Let's Talk About Real Zero | Caroline Lucas
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Why Complex Societies Need Simple Individuals | John Gowdy
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It's Not Just A Climate Crisis | Mike Joy
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The Truth about Green Finance | Fred Hache
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Pro-Power: How the Far Right Stole America | Katherine Stewart
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Global Climate Compensation | Henrik Nordborg
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The Meaning Crisis | Jeremy Lent
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Understanding Resilience | Graeme Cumming
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Creating Complex Solutions | Asher Miller
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Creating Deliberative Democracies | Susan Clark & Tom Prugh
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Price Wars: How Prices Caused the Crisis | Rupert Russell
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The Climate Crisis is a Social Crisis | Richard Heinberg
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Debunking Green Growth | Tim Parrique
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The Future of Activism | Gail Bradbrook
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Citizens vs Oligarchies | Sally Goerner
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Creating Resilient Biosystems | Walter Jehne
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Understanding the Nature of Systems | Jessie Henshaw
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Urgency, Action and Ethics | Joseph Merz
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Buying Time With Geoengineering | Ye Tao
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Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel
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Saving Democracy to Save the Planet | David Orr
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Russia's War: The Impact of Sanctions and Markets | Chris Cook
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Journalism's Role in a Crisis | Ian Urbina
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How To Make Markets Serve People | Chris Cook
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Gaianism: Can a Spiritual Movement Combat the Crisis?
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Transforming Food Systems to Transform the Future | Jason Bradford
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How Science is Failing the Crisis | Dan Fiscus
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How Western Philosophy Created the Crisis | Carl Safina
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Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
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The Thermodynamics of Collapse | Tim Garrett
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One year of Planet: Critical
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Common Sense vs Economics | Joshua Farley
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Save The Forests To Save The Planet | Anastassia Makarieva
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Fish, Fusion and Revolution | Paul Greenberg
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Seeing the Big Picture | Nate Hagens
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Confronting the crisis: Systems, solutions and stories | Ugo Bardi
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