What are you really buying with your plane ticket? ✈️
In this week’s episode, we explore one of aviation’s most uncomfortable questions: are airlines actively objecting to climate regulation to protect low-cost business models and avoid rising operating costs?
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A single long-haul aircraft can consume energy on a scale comparable to a small city 🤯
Just one of the many staggering facts and realities explored in this week’s episode of Outrage + Optimism, as we unpack aviation’s deep dependence on fossil fuels and ask: what would it actually take to decarbonise flying?
Featuring Karel Bockstael and Roxanne van Rijn, co-founders of Call Aviation to Action, this episode dives into the technological, political and economic challenges facing one of the hardest sectors to decarbonise.
✈️ Can aviation continue to grow sustainably?
🌍 Who really flies - and who pays the climate cost?
⚡ And are technological solutions enough on their own?
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Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough 🌍
“That one generation should come along and think it has the right to maltreat the planet, that obliterates great sections of it, to me, is insupportable.”
“We have no option if we want to survive.”
But Sir David reminds us that the fight to protect the planet is about more than survival.
It’s because it’s right.
As Sir David Attenborough approaches his 100th birthday, we’re looking back at some of the toughest questions he’s reflected on throughout his life and career 🌍
Including one that feels bigger than ever: what kind of world we’re leaving for future generations.
Sir David shares how difficult he finds it to think too far beyond his own years, instead choosing to believe there is a profound moral reason behind why he, and so many others, continue to do this work.
In 2004, David Shukman stood at the BBC news desk and tried to explain why global warming might make Britain colder. It did not go well. Twenty years later, he's still asking the same question: how do you communicate a threat this counterintuitive?
Listen to the full conversation now via the link in our bio 🔗
Feeling despair and unbridled fury about the climate issues facing our planet? You’ve come to the right podcast.
The emotional side of climate change isn’t talked about enough @willemhuiskamp of @pik_klima explains why.
What keeps you going?
🎧 Listen now - link in bio.
One of the systems keeping our climate stable is under pressure.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) helps regulate temperatures, weather and food systems across the globe.
If it weakens, the consequences won’t be instant but they will be profound. In the latest episode of Outrage + Optimism @willemhuiskamp talks with @tomcarnac and explains what these could be.
Listen to the new episode to find out more, via our bio 🔗
20 years ago, The Day After Tomorrow was fiction. But how close are we to it becoming reality?
This week on Outrage + Optimism, former BBC Science Editor @david.shukman joins Tom as a special guest host, diving into the science and storytelling behind Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
Featuring Dr @willemhuiskamp from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the episode explores what AMOC is, why its weakening matters, and how we should be talking about it.
Look out for the latest episode. New episodes every Thursday.
An evening inside Bath Abbey to ask one of the biggest questions of our time: What do we owe future generations in a warming world?
As part of the University of Bath's 60th anniversary, Christiana Figueres joins Professor Phil Taylor for a live conversation exploring climate, responsibility, and what comes next.
We're at the midpoint of the decisive decade for climate action, and the focus turns to intergenerational responsibility.
This event is all about being part of the conversation.
📍 Bath Abbey
🕡 Doors: 18:30
🎤 Live event: 19:30
Tickets are limited, so register in advance. Available via the link on our profile 🔗
This week marks 7 years since the first episode of Outrage + Optimism 🎂
Join us in taking a look back through the archive of memories of this time, featuring inspirational guests, bold conversations, and the voices shaping the future of climate action.
We can't thank you enough for your support across the years. Have any of out there you been with us from the very start?
This isn’t just about energy. It’s about power.
From debt traps to fossil fuel dependency, Vanessa Nakate explains why some countries can’t simply “walk away” from oil, while Mary Robinson reminds us - if humans built these systems, we can change them.
The transition is happening, just not fast enough.
But what speeds it up, politics or pressure?
Find out more on the latest episode of Outrage + Optimism Podcast
