Edition #1011

Today we take a look at the struggle between those intent on
selling doubt about climate science in order to stretch fossil fuel
profits as far as they’ll go and those standing up to them in the
most direct way possible

 

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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the
Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: What they knew and when they knew it - DISOBEDIENCE
from 350.org - Air Date 4-30-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Ch. 4: Act 2: Good News For Solving Climate Change -
@theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-23-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Budding Trees - Nahko and Medicine for the
People

Ch. 6: Act 3: Brendan DeMelle (@bdemelle) on Exxon’s Climate
Cover-Up - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 4-29-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Deception - The Chamber Orchestra of London

Ch. 8: Act 4: .@NaomiOreskes:  Climate Change Disinformation
Is Like Pro-Tobacco Lobbying - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date:
03-08-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise - The
Avett Brothers

Ch. 10: Act 5: Big Oil Is WAY More Evil Than We Thought -
@theyoungturks - Air Date: 04-24-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Mairzy Doats - The Merry Macs

Ch. 12: Act 6: Break Free 2016 #KEEPITINTHEGROUND via @350 - Best
of the Left Activism
Ch. 13: Song 6: This fickle world - Theo Bard

Ch. 14: Act 7: DISOBEDIENCE - 350.org - Air Date 4-30-16

Voicemails
Ch. 15: Some contracted FedEx drivers like the arrangement -
Brian from New Jersey
Ch. 16: Thoughts on independent contractors - Jack from
Baltimore
Ch. 17: Raptors and Taxes - Matt from Maryland
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 18: Final comments on the exploitation
of FedEx contractors and how taxing the rich spurs investment
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

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Sources/further reading: 

4 Reasons Now is our Chance to Break Free from Fossil
Fuels (via BreakFree2016.org)

Bill McKibbon: Global Warming's Terrifying New
Chemistry (via The Nation)

Inside the Paris Climate Deal (via The New York Times)
President
Obama's Climate Action Plan Infographic (via
WhiteHouse.gov)

Bill McKibbon: Why We Need to Keep 80% of Fossil Fuels in the
Ground (via Yes!)

Fossil Giant BP Sees Fourth-Quarter Profits Sink Nearly
70% (via Smarter Shift)
 
Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda
Hoffman.

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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