I am guessing everyone who listens to this show considers himself or herself an environmentalist and cares about the planet. You believe in science—a shocking notion—so you get the climate change emergency. We know we have to do some pretty radical stuff to keep this spaceship habitable for generations to come. Here’s the problem: there […]
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Episode 210: Is Europe Taking Climate Change “Just Transition” More Seriously?
Posted on 16 December 2020.
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Episode 147: Temp Work Is All The Rage; Coal Miners & The Green New Deal
Posted on 11 September 2019.
Once upon a time, if you got a job that lasted a long time, you’d be a permanent worker, maybe after a short probationary period. Not so much anymore with the plague forcing people to take “temp” jobs—the kind of job that is increasing in the past few years, outpacing full-time permanent work, and also […]
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Episode 5: Burning People, Burning Planet–Capitalism Ain’t Pretty
Posted on 23 November 2016.
Jonathan goes digging into the world of the global sweatshop, talking with global workers rights advocate Shawna Bader-Blau on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Bangladesh factory fire that killed 110 garment workers and injured thousands more. We also talk Just Transition–how workers and communities will be looked after as we transition from […]
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Climate Change And “Just Transition”
Posted on 09 December 2009.
Over to Copenhagen (A lovely city to visit): how exactly do we adjust the global economy to save the planet from catastrophic changes AND do so in a way that is fair to workers. The process is called "Just Transition". The international labor movement–there is a delegation in Copenhagen drawing from labor around the […]
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