Lithium is branded as the cure-all to our fossil fuel dependence. But its history tells another story: that the solution to the world's problems is always more mining. Make time for this astounding episode with history of science scholar Javiera Barandarian: www.planetcritical.com/javiera-bara...

The Epstein Files reveal how sexual abuse sits hand in glove with capitalist exploitation. www.planetcritical.com/epsteins-inn...

In my conversation with XR co-founder Roger Hallam, I asked him about his advising Palestinians to commit to non-violence in the face of genocide. His response really surprised me. Full episode out now: www.planetcritical.com/roger-hallam/

OUT NOW: I interviewed Roger Hallam, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, about his vision of activism. Roger is convinced of his methodologies and strategies. I am not. I end up asking him if he has a Messiah complex. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/roger-hallam/

We can afford to unconditionally provide healthcare, education, housing, transport, food and more to everyone – and doing so would dramatically improve people's ability to contribute to society. Universal Basic Services could change everything. Learn how: www.planetcritical.com/andrew-percy/

@climatehuman.bsky.social Would love to interview you about your recent post, 'Get Organized'. I believe my DMs are open!

From storm-battered Cornwall to the highest hill in Paris, last week I learned all about how the best place to change the world is right where you already are: www.planetcritical.com/how-to-chang...

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

"Non-violence is a posture which demands witnesses. Self defence is a response which demands participation. Only one can protect us in life or death situations." www.planetcritical.com/can-non-viol...

"Non-violence is a posture which demands witnesses. Self defence is a response which demands participation. Only one can protect us in life or death situations." www.planetcritical.com/can-non-viol...

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The killings will continue until you give us the state voter rolls

The threatening and fascistic dictates of the Trump administration met a series of stumbling blocks over the weekend. From Minnesota to Denmark, and from protesters to politicians, people have had enough. www.planetcritical.com/and-the-worl...

big thanks to the brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social for the opportunity to chat on Planet: Critical we kicked off the new year by asking: what's up with climate fiction? www.planetcritical.com/heather-mill...

Something a little different from me today, but racing around my mind all weekend. www.planetcritical.com/europe-must-...

Thank you @racheldonald.bsky.social on your extremely humane and thoughtful latest episode of Planet Critical. It's what I needed today. www.planetcritical.com/for-the-futu...

Alex Kleytman was just a child when he survived the Holocaust. To have been killed by anti-semitic hatred 80 years after the end of WWII is like being crushed under the wheel of time. It should take the breath out of all of us. www.planetcritical.com/an-unmistaka...

Organisations like Our World in Data and folk like Steven Pinker would have us believe that everything is getting better because lines are travelling a certain way on charts. This week's guest @smillermcdonald.bsky.social thoroughly debunks that. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

Geographer @smillermcdonald.bsky.social on the myth of progress — a delusion that's been following us for 5000 years and justified endless wars, genocides and ecological destruction. Full episode out now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

I read the White House National Security Plan so you don't have to. It's bad btw. www.planetcritical.com/trumps-natio...

A pleasure to talk with Rachel Donald again on Planet Critical about hyper-local futures and my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' www.planetcritical.com/hyper-local-...

As a journalist, my mother knew the horrors that human beings can inflict on one another. She knew that things don't get better unless people push for justice. But she still believed, then, that justice was possible. Her outlook is different today. www.planetcritical.com/today-my-mot...

Should You Have Kids? Choosing whether or not to have children has been a critical component of cultures around the world for millennia, and the choosing not to has always been as important as the choosing to. Read the full piece now on Planet: Critical: www.planetcritical.com/should-you-h...

Natural Scientist Fernando Racimo, author of Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice, joins Planet Critical podcast to discuss what works/ doesn't in climate activism; how deep complicity rot goes in universities, & much more www.planetcritical.com/fernando-rac...

Planet: Critical has left Substack! Find out why visiting Samoa and Crete made me discover something "achingly human" which encouraged me to get away from the noise. www.planetcritical.com/into-the-woo...

Such a brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social conversation with Nina Djukanovic on critical raw materials -- from the energy transition to political violence to #degrwoth: www.planetcritical.com/material-dep...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

New site: www.planetcritical.com I've switched over to Ghost and would love your feedback now that I've been able to customise my design. Comment below!

NEED A SOURCE: Community, I'm looking for an academic source showing the linear relationship between material footprint and GDP (I've heard they're tied 1:1 but can't find such a paper.) Please help!

"Were our justice system capable of justice, those who furnish their own lives at the expense of others would be held accountable for their actions long before they face threats to their lives." www.planetcritical.com/p/free-speec...

The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health. On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...

Canadian mining companies are 'getting away with atrocities' in South America and across the globe, says Brandi Morin. She shares the details with @racheldonald.bsky.social on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast. Listen now @mongabay.com

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The modern Left demands a form of empathy which refuses to confront the actions and speech of individuals, conveniently championing the fact of their humanness over evidence of their lack of humanity. Kirk's only discernible quality was his homo sapiens DNA. www.planetcritical.com/p/charlie-kirk

I finally had the chance to interview neuro-philosopher @Iain McGilchrist and it was a delight. Listen to us discuss the necessity of metaphors, the relationship between our brain hemispheres and giggle about his portrayal of the unconscious mind. Episode: www.planetcritical.com/p/iain-mcgil...

I want to migrate from Substack to @ghost.org Can anyone help?

Collapse: Who does it really hurt? Listen to the full interview with Cambridge scholar for existential risk, Luke Kemp, to find out everything you couldn't have possibly imagined about what happens when empires collapse: www.planetcritical.com/p/luke-kemp

There is no going back. There is no going forward, either, when the path is giving way under your feet. www.planetcritical.com/p/between-tw...

I recently spent 10 days with an Aboriginal community in one of Australia's remotest regions. What I learned from the elders is there is no going back. www.planetcritical.com/p/there-is-n...

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

“Carbon credits show just how far economic doublethink has infected policymaking: The claim that emissions can somehow be cancelled out by paying to protect a forest or a wind power plant is ludicrous.” Greenwashing is Gaslighting - @racheldonald.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/planetcr...

Who has the most updated numbers on U.S. fossil fuel subsidies?

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX! Conspiracies are born when people have lived experience of abuse and exploitation but no language to make sense of it. It's not a conspiracy—it's capitalism. www.planetcritical.com/p/its-not-a-...

A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

Israel is being mythologised as exceptional rather than inevitable. www.planetcritical.com/p/one-day-ev...

The biggest form of pharmaceutical pollution is us. By passing numerous drugs through our bodies and into the environment, we are having shocking effects on organisms and ecosystems. Full interview with Health Economist Martin Hensher: www.planetcritical.com

Human bodies are no longer just in the factories. Now they are the factories. Marxist Eco-Feminist, Silvia Federici, explains how exploitation of the body has now expanded beyond labor towards a new commerce of body parts. Full interview at www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

The capitalist class has always sought to control women's reproduction—it's not just promoting the birth of certain babies, but also reducing the number of potential rebel babies. Listen to the full episode with Marxist-feminist scholar Silvia Federici now: www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

Nature is still doing an enormous job of cleaning up our carbon emissions despite our best efforts to hinder her efforts. Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop, principal scientist, explains the data on just how much work nature is putting in for us. Full episode at www.planetcritical.com/p/gerard-wed...