Planet B: Everything Must Change

We need a global Green New Deal. Can we build it in time? Planet B: Everything Must Change is a new podcast series about a world that isn’t just saved from climate chaos, but is transformed by the fight against it.

Ahead of the UN Climate Conference in Glasgow, hosts Dalia Gebrial and Harpreet Kaur Paul tackle the six big issues facing a world on the brink: Work, Land, Infrastructure, Water, Migration and Debt.

Look out for new episodes every Thursday, plus bonus interviews with Sarah Jaffe, Jeremy Corbyn, Laleh Khalili, Noam Chomsky and more.

Worker exploitation and environmental degradation are both rife and invisible in the shipping networks on which global capitalism depends, explains professor and author Laleh Khalili in this bonus interview from Planet B: Everything Must Change.

The writer of Sinews of War and Trade, an investigation into the secretive world of maritime trade, tells Harpreet Kaur Paul how notions of sovereignty and territory come unstuck at sea, leaving workers and ecosystems at risk.

Khalili also explains why seafarers were among the worst hit by the pandemic and why the grounding of the container ship Evergiven shone a light on the brutal working conditions associated with maritime transport.

An extract from this interview appears in the fourth episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, a podcast series made in partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London.

Produced by Freddie Stuart.
Music and sound by Ben Heyderman.
Illustrations by Tomekah George.
Design by Pietro Garrone.

No vision of climate justice is complete without a roadmap towards reparations, argues Esther Stanford-Xosei in the final bonus episode from Planet B: Everything Must Change.

Speaking to Harpreet Kaur Paul, the Indigenous reparationist, activist and advocate explains how histories of colonial injustice and racial discrimination have resulted in the twin crimes of genocide and ecocide. Stanford-Xosei also recounts the history of the movement for African reparations, and considers whether the existing legal system can be a route towards meaningful reparations.

An extract from this interview appears in the Debt episode of Planet B.

Produced by Freddie Stuart.
Music and sound by Ben Heyderman.
Illustrations by Tomekah George.
Design by Pietro Garrone.
Made with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London.

How have we come to see our oceans as either a vehicle for trade or a site of limitless resources? In the fourth episode of Planet B, we ask why water, the most basic necessity of life, always has a price.

Harpreet Kaur Paul finds out how capitalism has fundamentally changed our relationship with water, from the commodification of the seas during the age of exploration to the international race to discover deep-sea oil and gas reserves.

Instead of treating the ocean as a space for frictionless accumulation, can we imagine a “blue new deal” that refuses to carve up water into routes and resources controlled by the most powerful?

This episode features insights from Tina Ngata, an advocate for environmental, Indigenous and human rights based in Te Ika A Maui (the North Island of New Zealand), Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, Elif Saracan, an activist for the Kurdish Womens Movement, and Elizabeth Johnson, a Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University.

Produced by Freddie Stuart.
Music and sound by Ben Heyderman.
Illustrations by Tomekah George.
Design by Pietro Garrone.
In partnership with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung London.

In the fifth episode of Planet B: Everything Must Change, Dalia Gebrial explores the countless ways in which climate breakdown is driving the displacement of people, from the destruction of homes and subsistence livelihoods to the increasing scarcity of work in drought-afflicted countries.

Who benefits from the idea of the ‘climate refugee’? Why does gender sometimes determine who is most vulnerable to climate change? And how has the far-right shifted from climate denial towards an eco-fascist position of racist border enforcement?

This episode features insights from Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want, migrant justice activist Harsha Walia, US journalist Todd Miller, and Tetet Lauron, a writer and advisor at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung based in Manila, Philippines.

Look out for two extended interviews with Walia and Rehman before the final episode lands.

Produced by Freddie Stuart.
Music and sound by Ben Heyderman.
Illustrations by Tomekah George.
Design by Pietro Garrone.
Made with Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.