Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 35: A food crisis is coming this year and the government is unprepared

In this episode Clare and Charlie discuss how a perfect storm is brewing that will result in a coming food crisis this year and what you can do to prepare. They cover how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is affecting fertilizer supplies and increasing fuel prices, while a developing El Niño weather event is going to exacerbate already difficult growing conditions. All this against a background of a fragile food system and an unprepared government means we need to organise to keep ourselves safe.
This isn't the final word in terms of things to think and do. It's really important to think about the near term impacts, but it's a huge topic and there is much more to cover in future episodes.

REFERENCES

Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’ without urgent action, experts say - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/28/britain-sleepwalking-into-a-food-crisis-without-urgent-action-experts-say

Steve Keen – Things Fall Apart - Brave New Europe
https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-things-fall-apart

Industry body warns fuel crisis could leave crops rotting in UK fields - The Guardian
https://www.farminguk.com/news/industry-body-warns-fuel-crisis-could-leave-crops-rotting-in-uk-fields_68483.html

'Unpredictable and extreme’: Asia braces for El Niño - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/05/el-nino-asia-unpredictable-extreme-weather-climate-change-crisis

Pro-Social Hoarding - George Monbiot
https://www.monbiot.com/2025/03/20/pro-social-hoarding/

A food revolution: campaigners in Liège want all the region’s produce to be grown locally. Can they do it? - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/16/the-good-life-in-liege-the-start-of-a-food-revolution

Planting Value in the Food System - The Vegan Society
https://www.plantingvalueinfood.org/

Eating Away at Climate Change with Negative Emissions - Helen Harwatt and Matthew Hayek
https://animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Eating-Away-at-Climate-Change-with-Negative-Emissions%E2%80%93%E2%80%93Harwatt-Hayek.pdf

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 34: The psychological effects of repression and what's next for the climate movement?

In this episode Clare and Charlie explore how escalating state repression is reshaping climate activism, from the rise of underground tactics and sabotage, to why crackdowns may be radicalising some campaigners while deterring others. They also discuss the future of climate organising, including: mutual aid, community resilience, local assemblies, land-based resistance in France, and the growing attempts to unite climate action with anti-war, anti-poverty and justice movements. They raise the question of what a coherent political vision and philosophy for the climate movement might actually look like in an age of collapse, inequality and authoritarianism.

REFERENCES

Research on climate protest repression in the UK (University of St Andrews / Nature Climate Change)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02570-8

Guardian article on how climate protest crackdowns may radicalise activists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/25/criminalisation-of-climate-protesters-in-uk-is-counterproductive-research-finds

Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action (Report from Leiden Conference)
https://zenodo.org/records/17583133

The Difficulty Ecologism Has Not Yet Faced
https://thefurrowedmind.substack.com/p/the-difficulty-ecologism-has-not

Humanity Project
https://humanityproject.uk/

The Climate Mobilization (US climate survival organising project)
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/

Water Sovereignty Toolkit (The Climate Mobilization)
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/water-sovereignty-toolkit

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070/a-paradise-built-in-hell-by-rebecca-solnit/

Soulèvements de la Terre (“Earth Uprisings” movement in France)
https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org/

Climáximo (Portuguese climate justice movement)
https://www.instagram.com/climaximopt/

Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative - https://fossilfueltreaty.org/

Citizens’ Convention for Climate (France)
https://www.conventioncitoyennepourleclimat.fr/en/

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Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Clare Farrell and conservation scientist Dr Charlie Gardner team up once more to discuss issues and stories they feel are not getting enough airtime. They want to make sure that the latest news in science and important reports that are relevant to the climate and ecological crisis are flagged and explained in ways that are easy to understand.

EPISODE 33: The true cost of AI and a COP replacement?

In this episode, Clare and Charlie discuss the first Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels conference held in Santa Marta Colombia in April 2026. They also look at what data centres and a booming AI industry means for the environment and beyond.

REFERENCES

Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels Conference
https://transitionawayconference.com/

Key Outcomes from Santa Marta - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/santa-marta-key-outcomes-from-first-summit-on-transitioning-away-from-fossil-fuels/

The AI Climate Hoax Report
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12l1W4W25b-_ff6yFNJABkfal9_9oevxe/view

New datacentres risk doubling Great Britain’s electricity use - Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/23/new-datacentres-risk-doubling-uk-electricity-use-ofgem-peak-demand

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres - Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/26/uk-departments-at-odds-over-energy-demands-of-ai-datacentres

The Thermodynamic Endgame of Industrial Civilization
https://kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamic-endgame-of-industrial Data Centre Watch report https://www.datacenterwatch.org/report

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