

‘It’s worse, much worse than you think’. Aaron Bastani speaks to David Wallace-Wells, author of the bestselling ‘The Uninhabitable Earth’, on the scale of climate change and how humanity has done far more to destroy the planet – fully aware of the consequences – than it ever did in ignorance.
A new Committee on Climate Change (CCC) stating that we can decarbonise by 2050 is welcome news, but it doesn’t go nearly far enough argues Aaron Bastani.
Extinction Rebellion and AOC’s Green New Deal have made global headlines. Can their aims be aligned to prevent climate catastrophe? Guest host Aaron Bastani will be joined by journalist and environmentalist George Monbiot and economist Ann Pettifor.
After 96 arrests in 2 weeks #ExtinctionRebellion have got climate change in the headlines. But can this movement last? Founder Roger Hallam and Novara Media’s Clare Hymer join us to discuss.
On this week’s episode of The Bastani Factor Aaron looks at some of the biggest stories of the week, including the Observer giving space to the most marginalised voices in Britain and the fact that the climate is very likely screwed.