January 2021 – Feasta

Pitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision

In the first of our 2021 podcast series 'Bridging the Gaps', Mark Garavan talks about the reasons behind the anger that so many people are feeling at the moment and suggests ways to build a more positive narrative about the future.

Bridging the Gaps 2021: Podcasts on ecology, health, energy, well-being…..

Welcome to our new series of Bridging the Gaps. As with our previous series in 2020, and our 2019 podcast series Beyond the Obvious, it is co-organised by Feasta and the European Health Futures Forum (EHFF).

The hosts, Seán O’Conláin and Caroline Whyte, explore a range of topics with guests from a wide variety of backgrounds. We’ll upload 10 podcasts in the course of 2021. Please feel free to comment below.

Special thanks to Laoise Kelly who gave us permission to use her harp music. The piece is ‘Princess Beatrice’ from her Album ‘Just Harp’.

Podcasts are listed below …

Statement on the US Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement

FEASTA encourages policymakers and activists to take the opportunity, as the US re-engages with the Paris Climate Agreement, to include a science-based, equity-based, and people-based method of achieving the 1.5 degree goal: CapGlobalCarbon.

De-growth Discussion 3: inflation, deflation or (probably) stagflation

In what ways might a contracting economy bring about a massive redistribution of wealth, and which of these ways would be preferable? Tim Watkins and Brian Davey discuss this and many other topics in their exploration of the relationship between energy and inflation in the modern economy, and the risk from economic models which fail to account for declining energy.

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