WHO CARES WINS

EPISODE 10 l 11 NOV 2021

COP 26 BONUS: WHAT THE SHELL IS GOING ON?

WITH PROFESSOR GAIL WHITEMAN, VANESSA NAKATE, ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER AND TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH (FEAT. JOE LYCETT, BEN VAN BEURDEN, LAUREN MACDONALD, CHRIS JAMES, JOHAN ROCKSTRÖM AND CHRISTIANA FIGUERES)

I’m concerned because industrialized countries of the North are continuing to be the problem. How do we get a movement of people to start to rise up and speak up? How do we do that? How do we start moving away from our dependency on a fossil fuel economy? How do we address the addiction? And how do we really develop an ethics system and a way of living of people throughout the world, of respecting the sacredness of the female creative principle of Mother Earth?

– Tom B.K. Goldtooth –

For this bonus episode, Lily explores the issue at the centre of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. Lily also looks at green washing, and the new dangers posed by net-zero pledges. Lily shares insider access - and analysis of the infamous Edinburgh TED Countdown Summit from October 2021, where CEO of Shell Ben van Beurden was pressed on the company’s recently released ‘greenwashed’ net-zero plans, eliciting the first ever TED protest.
After an emotional event that saw youth activists leave in protest, Lily is keen to revisit the discussion and give climate science more air-time. So for this episode, she spoke to Professor Gail Whiteman - one of the scientists who analysed Shell’s “Sky Scenario” and interrupted the TED talk to challenge van Beurden’s plans.
Lily also includes the voices of indigenous leaders, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Tom B.K. Goldtooth, who discuss the effects of fossil fuel companies on their land, and climate activist Vanessa Nakate
Thanks to TED for their permission to include this talk in the episode, you can find the full talk via this link.
Thanks to Joe Lycett for letting us include his advert Joe Lycett Vs The Oil Giant | The Ad Shell Would NEVER Make.

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