As COP31 gets underway in Turkiye, we look at why the EU is blocking an electrification push, how traffic is affecting the conference, and why right-wing journalists have suddenly discovered COP.
Drilled
A true-crime podcast about climate change.
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How to Confront a Polluted Information System | The Spill
The most serious pollution problem the world faces may just be the corporate contamination of our information systems. In Drilled founder Amy Westervelt’s new book, Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy, she reveals how a handful of ideologues, propagandists, and corporate consultants reshaped knowledge production systems […]
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Everything You Need to Know about COP 31 | The Spill
The 31st annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP31) kicks off in Türkiye in a couple weeks. Drilled climate reporters — and COP veterans — Nina Lakhani, Amy Westervelt, and Royce Kurmelovs download everything you need to know as the talks commence. Plus, Nina interviews climate activist Harjeet Singh about what the climate […]
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Three Climate Journalists Take on Digger | The Spill
Climate journalists Amy Westervelt, Nina Lakhani and Alleen Brown share whether they loved or hated the polarizing, big budget, box office flop, Digger. Plus a discussion on the role of pop culture in confronting the climate crisis and some of the team’s favorite socially conscious music and movies. In the second half of the episode, […]
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The Paradox of Mining Lithium to Save the Planet | The Spill
There’s a paradox at the heart of the clean-energy revolution. It is impossible to decarbonize electricity, transportation, and other energy-hungry sectors without developing technologies that rely less on fossil fuels. At the same time, however, you can’t build these clean(er) replacements without extracting a lot of critical minerals and other raw materials. And that extraction […]
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How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Garifuna land defenders vs. Survivor (as in the TV show) | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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S16, Ep3 | The Story of a Decade-Long Investigation
The protest, and thus the propaganda, moves to a new state.
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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The Climate Movement Fights Back, with Aru Shiney-Ajay of Sunrise Movement | The Spill
The climate movement has been in retreat and under attack, but Sunrise Movement is determined to keep organizing.