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BOTL Chapter 2

Sample recording of Chapter 2.

MEANING IT - Why did Melanie Nazareth walk with a group of pilgrims from London to the Climate Summit in Glasgow?

'Camino to COP' was a multi-faith pilgrimage designed to be both a personal commitment to walk together for 8 weeks and also a chance to take messages of climate justice to the world leaders in COP26.

MEANING IT - Anuradha Vittachi asks psychotherapist Chris Robertson why we don‘t act on the climate catastrophe

Anuradha Vittachi asks psychotherapist Chris Robertson why we keep refusing to take proportionate action in the face of looming calamity. He explains our need to distance ourselves from the guilt of complicity – and points us to Sally Weintrobe, who links our uncaring to neoliberal economics and its roots in Exceptionalism. 

MEANING IT - Anuradha Vittachi explores the power of the media oligarchs with Donnachadh McCarthy

Meaning It: How the UK’s financial sector enables the world’s fossil fuel addiction. Is the UK the climate innocent it claims to be or a fossil fuel enabler? Donnachadh McCarthy reveals to Anuradha Vittachi the shocking reality that the UK, far from contributing only 1% of the world’s carbon emissions, is one of the prime enablers of our addiction to fossil fuels. Young climate activists from Green New Deal Rising are unimpressed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s financial announcement at COP26 – and Juice Media hilariously satirizes the gap between the Morrison government’s pro-climate claims and what it actually does.

MEANING IT - Anuradha Vittachi asks Simon Maxwell for an expert‘s view of COP26

Meaning It: Behind the scenes of COP negotiations . Simon Maxwell is both a COP outsider and an insider: he has spent his working life pressing for socially just development in the global south – and, as a world expert in development, he has also chaired COP negotiations. He explains to Anuradha Vittachi, step by step, the complexities of the vital process of planning socially-just transitions out of fossil fuel based economies.

MEANING IT - Mark Lynas does a deep dive into the COP26 Climate Summit

Ahead of COP26 in November 2021, Anuradha Vittachi is in conversation with award-winning science author, Mark Lynas. What are real issues confronting the negotiators, and what is their chance of a successful outcome?

How to Create a Universe

Journalist and author Nury Vittachi discusses his fascinating new novel with a quantum physics theme with Peter Armstrong.

Is Christianity Over, Giles Fraser?

Giles Fraser, priest and prophet of the airwaves, in conversation with Peter Armstrong.

Virtual Reality for Good

Adam Groves and his colleagues are doing fascinating work to build VR experiences that can help children overcome the kinds of stress they are facing, particularly at school. This is a short first glimpse of their work, that we will hope to be following up in detail.

How real for us are our cyber-friends?

Phil Sheppard is an experience gamer who believes that the friends made playing games online together are not only very real but a hopeful sign for the future of how we can widen the scope of our empathy.