33 Best Political Ecology Podcasts

1. The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.more Host Nathan John Hagens
Producer/Network Nate Hagens
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Art Berman, Tad Patzek +24 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.1K Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. For The Wild

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For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.more Host Ayana Young
Producer/Network For The Wild
Email ****@forthewild.world
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Carlo, Jessie +9 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.7KFacebook 14.1KTwitter 3.5KInstagram 171.3K Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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Green Dreamer with kaméa chayne explores our paths to collective healing, biocultural revitalization, and true abundance and wellness *for all*.Curious to unravel the dominant narratives that stunt our imaginations and called to spark radical dreaming of what could be, we share conversations with an ever-expanding range of thought leaders — each inspiring us to deepen and broaden our awareness in their own ways.www.greendreamer.commore Host Kaméa chayne
Email ****@greendreamer.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Maria Pinto, Sophia Kai +13 more
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 986Facebook 520Twitter 1.8KInstagram 32.9K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Video Podcast YouTube
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4. Crazy Town

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With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we're all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the 'Great Unraveling' of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world...more Hosts Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford
Producer/Network Post Carbon Institute: Sustainability, Climate, Collapse, and Dark Humor
Email ****@postcarbon.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Tara Lohan, Douglas Rushkoff +13 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 326Facebook 48.1KTwitter 18.7KInstagram 2.9K Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. EcoJustice Radio

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EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media.Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.Featured weekly on KPFK Los Angeles and KPFT Houston, and found on all major podcast apps...more Hosts Jack Eidt, Carry Kim, Jessica Aldridge
Producer/Network SoCal 350 Media
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Abby Martin, Miranda Kerrigan +26 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 28Facebook 491Twitter 263Instagram 1.4K Avg Length 68 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Future Ecologies

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Made for nature lovers and audiophiles alike, Future Ecologies explores our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders.The format varies: from documentary storytelling to stream-of-consciousness sound collage, and beyond. Episodes are released only when they're ready, not on a fixed schedule (but approximately monthly).This ad-free, independent podcast is supported by our listeners: https://www.futureecologies.net/joinmore Hosts Adam Huggins, Mendel Skulski
Producer/Network Future Ecologies
Email ****@futureecologies.net
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Chelsey Armstrong, Leigh Joseph +11 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 361Facebook 755Twitter 1.3KInstagram 5K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Since Jul 2018 Video Podcast YouTube
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7. Breaking Green

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Produced by Global Justice Ecology Project, Breaking Green is a podcast that talks with activists and experts to examine the intertwined issues of social, ecological and economic injustice. Breaking Green also explores some of the more outrageous proposals to address climate and environmental crises that are falsely being sold as green. But we can't do it without you! We accept no corporate sponsors, and rely on people like you to make Breaking Green possible...more Host Steve Taylor
Producer/Network Global Justice Ecology Project / Host Steve Taylor
Email ****@globaljusticeecology.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Kaleb Lay, Jonathan Larsen +10 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 12Facebook 64 Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance

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OVERSHOOT tackles today's interlocked social and ecological crises driven by humanity's excessive population and consumption. The podcast explores needed narrative, behavioral, and system shifts for recreating human life in balance with all life on Earth. With expert guests from wide-ranging disciplines, we examine the forces underlying overshoot: from patriarchal pronatalism that is fueling overpopulation, to growth-biased economic systems that lead to consumerism and social injustice, to the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature...more Hosts Nandita Bajaj, Alan Ware
Producer/Network Population Balance
Email ****@populationbalance.org
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Michele Goodwin, Philip N. Cohen +18 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 161Facebook 5.1KTwitter 2 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Since Sep 2015 Get Email Contact

9. Political Heat

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Political Heat is here to make sense of climate politics. We know the science tells us to phase out fossil fuels. But it's politics that will determine how we do that, whose voices matter in decision-making, who will benefit - and who might lose out.Host Amy Mount brings two decades' experience of environmental politics, policy and organising. She interviews a different guest each episode. You'll hear from seasoned Westminster operators, savvy campaigners, business representatives, opinion pollsters, and more. To get in touch, email ****@gmail.com...more Producer/Network Amy Mount
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
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10. EXALT Podcast

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Resource extraction impacts our daily lives and has helped push the climate to the brink, but there are people around the world living and fighting for alternative ways forward. Join hosts Christopher Chagnon and Sophia Hagolani-Albov and their guests on the last Friday of each month for a discussion of the impacts of extractivisms, alternative ways forward, and stories from people living the struggle every day. If you are someone interested in how our environment and societies have come to their current state or learning about different ways we can move forward, this is the podcast for you.more Producer/Network EXALT Initiative
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Stefan Millar, Professor Ortwin Renn +9 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 20Facebook 160 Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

11. In Common

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In Common explores the connections between humans, their environment and each other through stories told by scholars and practitioners. In-depth interviews and methods webinars explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work on commons governance, conservation and development, social-ecological resilience, and sustainability.more Producer/Network The In Common Team
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Duan Biggs, Lauren E. Oakes +12 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 22 Avg Length 65 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

12. People over Plastic

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Welcome back to a very special season of the People over Plastic Podcast 'Democracy and Dissent' where we're exploring the intersection of Environmental Justice & Democracy. Over the next episodes we'll tackle three of the most critical aspects of democracy through the lens of environmental justice: Participation, Protections, and Protest. Host Shilpi Chhotray will have candid conversations with Environmental Justice thought leaders who have complex and differing relationships, histories, and hopes for democracy...more Host Shilpi Chhotray
Producer/Network People over Plastic
Email ****@peopleoverplastic.co
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 25 Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

13. Lawless Planet

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It's not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you take stock of what's left, it starts to look like a crime scene: Decapitated mountains, poisoned rivers, oil-soaked pelicans, maybe a sun-bleached cow skull in a dried-up lake bed. The only thing missing is yellow caution tape...more Email ****@wondery.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Betsy Gaines Quammen, Kert Davies +17 more
Apple Rating 4.2/5Apple Reviews 245 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Good Fire Podcast

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In this podcast we explore the concept of fire as a tool for ecological health and cultural empowerment by indigenous people around the globe. Good Fire is a term used to describe fire that is lit intentionally to achieve specific ecological and cultural goals. Good fire is about balance.more Hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson, Matthew Kristoff
Producer/Network Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 166Facebook 4.3K Avg Length 67 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

15. Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more.Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff.Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.more Hosts Bob Buzzanco, Scott Parkin
Producer/Network Green and Red
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Prof. Clayton Lust, Prof. Charles Derber +20 more
Apple Rating 4.1/5Apple Reviews 29Facebook 1.9KTwitter 3.5KInstagram 4.2K Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

16. 90 Miles from Needles: the Desert Protection Podcast

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Join Chris Clarke and a variety of guests as they explore the challenges and opportunities of the American Southwest's fragile ecosystems. Engaging interviews with experts, activists, and advocates on conservation, land management, and environmental justice. Science and sentiment, politics and philosophy, hiking and history, culture and creativity all go into defending the desert. Be forewarned: We are out to recruit you to the cause.more Producer/Network Chris Clarke
Email ****@90milesfromneedles.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Zak Podmore, Jimmy John Thompson +5 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 53 Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

17. The Landscape

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News, interviews, and history with newsmakers and environmental advocates, focused on parks and public lands across the American West. Produced by the Center for Western Priorities, formerly known as Go West, Young Podcast.more Hosts Kate Groetzinger, Aaron Weiss
Producer/Network Center for Western Priorities
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 79 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

18. Our Public Lands

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A podcast about our beloved and treasured public lands where I interview subject matter experts and activists from across the country who are working to protect and advocate for our public lands and their wildlife, wilderness, and cultural values. ourpubliclandspodcast.substack.commore Producer/Network Adam Bronstein
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Wanda Culp, Boone Kauffman +12 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 50 Avg Length 61 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

19. Unwell to Begin With

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Biology and the environmental movement have a eugenics problem. Eugenics has also been gaining ground in public policy and discourse in many parts of the world lately, with scientists, policymakers, physicians, wellness influencers, and techbros alike increasingly posing it as a solution to intensifying socio-ecological crises...more Recent Guests Dr. Haley Branch, Audra Mitchell
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20. (Dis)solution

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Notes towards justice in the Anthropocene.(Dis)solution Audio Editions are readings of selected articles from our print and online magazine.dissolutionmag.com(Dis)solution creates and publishes work to unravel the knots of injustice in the post-end-of-history Anthropocene. It turns a critical eye to the machinations of exploitation at the intersections of politic, culture, and ecology, and the crisis and contradiction that follows...more Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

21. Outrage + Optimism

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Outrage + Optimism is for anyone who is not ready to give up on making the world a better place. For unrivalled conversations with decision makers, visionary thinkers and a community of like-minded climate optimists, join former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, political strategist Tom Rivett-Carnac and sustainable business consultant Paul Dickinson. Each week they make sense of all the top climate news stories, go behind the scenes at crucial talks and ensure you stay informed and inspired ahead of what is set to be the consequential year for climate action...more Hosts Paul Dickinson, Thomas Charles Rivett-Carnac, Christiana Figueres
Producer/Network Persephonica and Global Optimism
Email ****@globaloptimism.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 50k-250k
Recent Guests Tom Rivett-Carnac, Dr Willem Huiskamp +30 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 3.5KTwitter 9.8KInstagram 31.7K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

22. The Climate Pod

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The Climate Pod is a wide-ranging conversation with leading experts on the politics, economics, activism, culture, science, and social justice issues at the heart of the climate crisis. Hear from guests like Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Al Roker, David Wallace-Wells, Katharine Hayhoe, Adam McKay, Bill Nye, Robert Bullard, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Ted Danson, Gina McCarthy, Paul Krugman, and many more. Hosted by Brock Benefiel and Ty Benefiel.more Hosts Brock Andrew, Ty Benefiel
Producer/Network The Climate Pod
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Nathaniel Stinnett, Tony Juniper +8 more
Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 394 Avg Length 58 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

23. The Rift

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A radio show about climate change, ecology, politics, and power. Aired live every first and third Sunday of the month at 3pm CT on WEFT Champaign, 90.1 FM. Recordings here.
Producer/Network Roshan Krishnan
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Emily Grubert, Joshua Lappen +16 more
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

24. Fields of Power

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'Fields of Power' is a serial podcast that tells the story of how control over land in Hungary became a crucial terrain for consolidating PM Orbán's regime's authoritarian grip on power. At the heart of 'Fields of Power' is a central question: how does land ownership shape democracy? Or even more urgently: how does the loss of democratic control over land support the rise of illiberalism?The story begins on the farms and grazing areas, in displaced rural communities, and through the voices of those directly affected...more Email ****@slu.se
Recent Guests Katalin, Ferenc
Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

25. Megabiodiversity

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Long-form podcast hosted by Juan del Mar on the Theory of Megabiodiversity (TMD) — a tensorial framework for territorial sovereignty, environmental data architecture and the political ecology of the energy transition in megadiverse countries. Each episode develops in audio the conceptual and operational corpus of the program, with active engagements across the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Frameworks, dossiers, operational tools and engagement opportunities at biovoxel.earth.more Producer/Network Juan del Mar
Recent Guest Donald E. Canfield
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26. Planet: Critical

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Planet: Critical is the podcast for a world in crisis. We face severe climate, energy, economic and political breakdown. Journalist Rachel Donald interviews those confronting the crisis, revealing what's really going on—and what needs to be done. Visit planetcritical.commore Host Rachel Donald
Email ****@planetcritical.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guest Ken Hammond
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 276 Avg Length 59 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

27. geopolitical ecology

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Exploring connections between nature, people, and power.
Producer/Network youssefbouchi
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

28. Green Wave

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Green Wave showcases some of the best articles from the Green European Journal - Europe's leading political ecology magazine offering green & progressive ideas and analysis. For the text version of the articles and printed editions go to greeneuropeanjournal.eu, or follow the journal on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @GreenEUJournal. more Producer/Network Green Wave - Green European Journal
Email ****@gef.eu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 11Facebook 5.9KTwitter 13.7K Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

29. Political Ecology Forum @NMBU

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Interviews with researchers and Ph.D. students that participate in the Political Ecology Forum at Norwegian University of Life Sciences to discuss their latest publications and engage with contemporary debates related to power and environment.more Email ****@gmail.com
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30. Political Climate

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Political Climate delivers an insider's view on the most pressing questions in energy and climate. Through biweekly analysis and debate, the podcast explores the nuances of how policy and politics are shaping the energy transition in the U.S. and around the world. Political Climate goes beyond partisan echo chambers to bring you insider scoops and authentic conversations with voices from across the political spectrum all with a healthy dose of wit. Tune in every other Monday with hosts Julia Pyper, Neil Chatterjee, and Brandon Hurlbut along with influential and insightful guests.more Hosts Brandon Hurlbut, Emily Domenech, Julia Pyper
Producer/Network Latitude Media
Email ****@gmail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Recent Guests Greg Bertelsen, Asim Haque +2 more
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 303Facebook 284Twitter 4.1KInstagram 873 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Since Apr 2018 Get Email Contact

31. Cultures of Energy

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Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter. We believe in the possibility of personal and cultural change. And we believe that the arts and humanities can help guide us toward a more sustainable future. Cultures of Energy is a Mingomena Media production. Co-hosts are @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowemore Hosts Dominic C. Boyer, Alyssa Cymene Howe
Producer/Network Dominic Boyer
Email ****@rice.edu
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Fernando Ortiz-Moya, Dan Sosna +11 more
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 77Twitter 3 Avg Length 62 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

32. The EcoPolitics Podcast

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We're back and excited to share where the Ecopolitics Podcast is going with Season 4. Hosts Peter Andree and Ryan Katz-Rosene reflect on where we've gone over the last three seasons. Together, they explore how many of the themes and topics of the podcast remain relevant and continuously changing, from the Carbon Tax and Sustainable Food Systems to Indigenous Environmental Politics...more Hosts Peter Andree, Ryan Katz-Rosene
Producer/Network Peter Andrée and Ryan Katz-Rosene
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 17 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

33. Saving The Franklin

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Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats, savage political moves and young people flooding into Tasmania to put their bodies in front of bulldozers. Jo Lauder investigates how this movement beat the odds and came to inspire a new generation of environmental activists that have shaped Australian politics through to today.more Email ****@abc.net.au
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