Outrage + Optimism Podcast Episodes
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313: Beyond the Bad News: Evidence for Climate Optimism
It's been a bleak few weeks for climate news. So this week we ask: are there still reasons to be optimistic? And what will it take to turn urgency into real change?
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Season 11 Justice + Climate
312: Rising Tides: How indigenous communities are facing the climate crisis
04 September 2025
Stories from the Solomon Islands, Alaska and Greenland - the front lines of climate change - where rising seas, collapsing ecosystems and the legacies of colonialism collide
Season 11 Science + Climate
311: Listening to the Living World: Can AI help us hear the planet?
28 August 2025
This week our hosts explore the promises and pitfalls of AI, including the extraordinary mission of the Earth Species Project, who are racing to use artificial intelligence to translate the communication of other species before they fall silent.
Season 11 Food Systems + Climate
310: You Are What You Eat: Soil, Seeds and Social Justice
21 August 2025
Christiana and Paul travel to Umbria, Italy, to visit Quintosapore, a farm founded by twin brothers Nicola and Alessandro Giuggioli and ask, what if agriculture could look completely different?
Past Episodes
Season 11
309: Too hot to handle? Facing a Future Beyond 1.5°C
Season 11
308: Mistakes, Mistruths and Misinformation: Climate's biggest myths debunked
Season 11
307: Trump’s War on Climate - and Maggie Baird on food justice and plant-based touring with Billie Eilish
Season 11
306: Breaking Planetary News: The ICJ Climate Opinion Explained
Season 11
305: Planes, Protests, Pensions... and have banks given up on saving the planet?
Season 11
304: From Outrage to Action: Your Questions, Our Answers
Season 11
303: The Climate Case of the Century: Inside the story of a youth-led legal movement
Season 11
302: Health Warning: The Human Cost of Climate Inaction with Julia Gillard
Season 11
301: Could This Change Your Life?: The Climate Tech Revolution
