Earth Riot Radio
Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused, music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue -- the planet’s Sixth Extinction. Made by "Earth-loving urban activists" from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring “News From the Natural World,” a weekly gathering of climate change’s latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
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17 Revisited: Extinction and the Urban Hipster
People are hypnotized by their own style during mass death, a fatal kind of masturbation.
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48: The Jaguar Explains Extinction
We promise: We will change our activism for the Earth. We’ll be as radical as the fires and floods, as extreme as the 6th Extinction that makes its way toward us.
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47: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
We are struggling for the Earth, fighting the fossil culture. Then again, we humans can accept that the 6th Extinction is real. Our wild dream. This powers up our politics like nothing else.
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46: Tenderness During Extinction
The “end of life as we know it” is coming quickly, with the pandemic an early sampling. There is a solution for us, but it means entering an unfathomable forest, a world.
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45: Climate Revolution 4 Dummys
Life has to be taken back, seized, re-possessed. Life is not negotiable. It is something we need. We need life, well, to LIVE.
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44: The Sixth Extinction Is Our Secret Kink
The accelerating Sixth Extinction is all around us. We sense it but don’t admit it. It is governing our behavior. We dare not speak its name.
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43: Your Promised Land or Mine?
The most glorious social movements have a way of enforcing isolation on activists. We pixelate our way through the unjust wilderness and lock down - exhausted.
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42: The Earth Goes to Washington
Chaos, corruption, finger-damning as the empire goes down. What is graceful and always remains in the heart of the capitol?
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41: Radical Forgiveness for Q'anon Cops
Is hatred forever? Congress seems to say damn right. But hatred is hard work. A famous American puritanical distraction. And the Earth won't wait for us.
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40: Got a Vaccine for the 6th Extinction?
The virtual world is where the apocalypses went. In the actual world, the extinction that is now underway is merely real. But download the special effects. It's amazing!
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39: We Put the Odd back in God
Inauguration Day and we all take the oath. We put our collective hand on the Bible and the Judge is surprised. Our hand is endangered wetlands our fingers are greasy snakes. Our hand is on the Bible, we put the Odd back in God.
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38: Everybody Got To: Compost Your Horror
The time that it takes us to chase down, convict, imprison and rehab MAGA is time that the Earth doesn't have.
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37: The Government of the Earth is Coming
Forces from the Earth's arsenal of Edens and Hells came looking for Trumpism. The proud boy was enticed into Nancy's chair and shown the door by Stacy and the Squad and that poor child left the building spinning where no-one can hear you scream.
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36: The Earth accepts the Unconditional Surrend...
Extinction is a time of strange aromas and dreams for a nation of ex-christians. How far into the Sixth Extinction can we take our entertainment consumerism? I guess we'll find out.
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35: The Leader of the Environmental Movement ha...
If we don't believe that the Earth is a conscious being, then we are defenseless against the fire, flood and virus.
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34: In the War of the Earth, Bezos is Hitler
Amazon pours 1,000,000 metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each week and Bezos is the richest man in the world.
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33: Earthalujah! Earthalujah! Earthalujah!
Can we electrify our activism for the Earth? Beyond lawsuits, studies and protests.
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32: Shopocalypse Meets Black Friday
There is no realistic way for consumerized humans to stop driving climate change. The deadly perspective is deeply trained, like a fundamentalist religion.
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31: The Amazon Drowns Jeff Bezos
Thanksgiving 2020. We give thanks that the apex predator was pulled from the trees. And the trees began to sing!
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30: Don't Be Shocked By COVID's Mind
The statement is coming, moving into words, slowly advancing toward us through the dead cities. The crying families we hear in the windows up the volume of Covid's announcement. When will we know?
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29: The Earth Ends MAGA and Starts What?
For the first time in memory, “The United States of America, the GREATEST Nation in the World” was not the phrase that climaxed the presidential victory speech.
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28: The Earth Won the Election
The electioneers are a small group of very busy people talking into iPhones in a boat that is rising slowly as a tsunami grows from below.
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27: The Earth is Breaking Donald Trump
You know something is up when you see a headline like COVID IS SPIKING IN THE STATES TRUMP NEEDS.
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26: AOC & Ivanka Talked All Night
Healing across the divide of politics & culture in the U. S. seems so impossible. But what if we were forced to heal? What if healing was the only way to survive the Earth’s accelerating extinction?
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25: Bezos and Musk Plan Second Planet, a "Baby ...
For the first time in more than a century, modern societies are awash in unknown things. The Earth is exploding.
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