#274: The End
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1y ago
Well, this is it. Yer last ever Babble. Thank you – seriously, thank you – if you’ve lent us your attention over the years. It’s been a pleasure. Herewith a valedictory episode in which we reveal the real reason we’re binning the babble, Ol serenades Dave with an original tune, and we humbly compare ourselves to one of the finest sitcoms this or any country has ever produced. Mostly though we consume far too much of the Christmas spirit and get bitter about the British Podcast Awards, so it probably is time to call it a day. Some housekeeping – our old email address is now defunct, so if you w ..read more
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#273: Chris Packham meets Sustainababble
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1y ago
For our final interview, we’re joined again by the majestic Chris Packham, our first ‘proper’ guest all the way back in 2015. We discuss all that has changed in those seven and a half years, not least some pretty hardcore stuff for Chris personally, and we chew over what the world of activism and protest might look like seven years hence, given things continue to go so spectacularly to shit. Talking of shit, we discover that Chris Packham is full of it – so much so that he’s put his favourite wildlife poo pics in a calendar for 2023 (available to order here). The reality of making telly progra ..read more
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#272: Twitter
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1y ago
If there wasn’t twitter, would we have solved climate change by now? Might we at least have got round to thinking about solving climate change? Would Ol have got more sleep? Sure, loads of important connections and organising and other useful stuff have happened via the site, but so too has a prodigious amount of titting about (trust us, we know of what we speak) let alone all the hate and bile and BS and conspiracy that sustains it. So do climate-y people need to ‘win’ twitter to make progress? Or is fighting online the problem, regardless of ‘side’, when we’re crying out for a bit of peace ..read more
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#271: Onshore Wind
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1y ago
Bat-chomping bird-slicing eco-crucifixes* are making a comeback! A mere eight years after some Tories effectively banned anyone from erecting wind turbines in England, some other Tories now look poised to overturn that ban. Which sort of tells you everything you need to know about Westminster politics. So this week we transport ourselves to a time when David Cameron was both a thing and someone who professed to like the planet, to understand why it is that these obviously useful, relentlessly popular, and appropriately sized (Grant Shapps, take note) steel and fibreglass daffodils are such Con ..read more
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#270: Ol’s House
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1y ago
Look, we’re quitting, so if there ever was a leash we are now firmly off it. Problem is, while unleashed Dave might follow his nose into the bushes of podcasting misadventure, unleashed Ol… well, he’s not that interesting is he? So having cast aside any editorial imperative to stay vaguely relevant or entertaining, herewith 45 minutes of a sad old man wanging on about hot water cylinders and heat pumps. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Sustainababble is your friendly environment podcast, out weekly. Theme music by the legendary Dicky Moore – @dickymoo. Sustainababble logo by the splendid Arthur S ..read more
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#269: Just Stop, Ol
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1y ago
Now then, we have Some News about the babble. Listen to the show to find out precisely what (don’t worry, we haven’t been bad), but surfice to say this year’s Sustainabauble will be particularly valedictory. But before we get too festive and emotional, there’s work to be done. Like trying to gather our thoughts on there being 8 billion humans alive, and whether that makes it OK for crusty white blokes to re-issue their malthusian greatest hits. Or indeed what we make of the increasingly ballsy climate protests sweeping the land. Are Just Stop Oil really “damaging their cause“, as so many armch ..read more
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#268: David Roberts meets Sustainababble
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1y ago
Chances are you’ll have read David Roberts’ superlative writing on climate – at Vox or more recently Volts – and thought ‘coo, that’s sensible and right and interesting’. We certainly have, so we’re delighted to finally have him on the show. David natters with us about US politics (are things potentially *not* totally naused?), progressives’ inability to be happy, the usefulness of COPs and the role of protest. We also goad him to adopt pointlessly binary positions on various controversial topics but, darn it, he sees us coming. As mentioned in the show, here’s David’s sterling advice for aspi ..read more
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#267: Eels
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1y ago
If we said “name the weirdest, most mystical & inexplicable creature on earth” you would rightly say “80s English footballer Peter Beardsley”. But pause for a moment to consider instead the ‘umble eel, a fish(ish) so unknown and unknowable that no human has observed one shagging in the wild. In fact no-one’s totally sure that they even DO shag in the wild. A bit like Peter Beardsley. It’s an astonishing tale, the eel’s, at the heart of which is a simple question that’s confounded thinkers big and small for centuries: where do eels come from? Mad cap attempts to find out have been almost as ..read more
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#266: Poo
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1y ago
Loathe though we are to be scatological, it’s time to face faecal facts: the astonishing amount of human excrement on the planet presents a honking environmental challenge. When you think about it, with nearly eight billion of us crimping one out most days, the fact that humans aren’t all swimming in the stuff is an impressive log-istical achievement, especially when flush toilets have only existed for 150 years. And despite it being the most normal thing in the world, poos and pooing remains a curious taboo. Unless, that is, you’re professor and film-maker Troy Hale, whose latest release (sor ..read more
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#264: Coke at COP
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1y ago
Who knew climate conferences had corporate sponsors? 183,295 people, that’s who, for they have signed a petition telling the UN suits to ditch the sponsor of this year’s jamboree in Egypt which is… Coca-Cola. That’s Coca “oh hi! we’re the biggest plastic polluter in the world!” Cola. Producers of 200,000 plastic bottles EVERY MINUTE coca-cola. Corporate lobbyists supreme, Coca-Cola. Everyone’s favourite pilferer of scarce fresh water supplies and flogger of brown sugary fizz, Coca-Cola. WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. We speak to Georgia Elliott-Smith, legal activist and originator of said petition, to fin ..read more
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