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This episode is a part of the first annual Climate Podcast Showcase, for more information on this visit www.climactic.fm/climatepodcase, and for more information on this show please visit The Juice Media Podcast.

Here's the video associated with this podcast episode: Honest Government Ad | We're F*ed

Here are the articles mentioned in the podcast:

• "Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals" by Martin Lukacs
• Forget Shorter Showers by Derrick Jensen
• "Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions" - The Carbon Majors DatabaseIf you enjoyed this podcast please subscribe on your podcast app and recommend it to others!

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TRANSCRIPT FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED, Thanks to Kevin Wild for transcribing the audio.

Hey everyone, Giordano here with the juice media podcast, broadcasting from the Department of Genuine Satire.

Most of you know this by now, but I'm just going to repeat it for any newcomers to the podcast, this is a companion podcast to the honest government ads series which we produce and this latest episode was an honest government announcement about the climate crisis.

[Honest Government Ad]
"Hello, I'm from the government with an important message as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, things are going, err, fine. Overall.. The Amazon is fine, half of Africa is fine. So is the Arctic, Indonesia, Spain, Greece, even Greenland's on fucking fire, err, I mean fine.

Scientists have coined a new term for this stage of climate change we're entering. “We’re fucked”. Unlike the previous stage, which climate scientists called listen to us or we might be fucked. We're fucked is happening. And in your lifetime..."

[Giordano] There are so many things to talk about on this issue. Where does one even start? Well, I think my expertise can be most useful in discussing the bullshit that is levied against people who joined the global strike movement. I mean you must have noticed there is just so much bullshit. Where does it all come from, what do we make of it, and how do we respond to it?

And I'm not talking about the bullshit regarding the science. Don't even get drawn into those debates because the only people that can debate the science are scientists and the vast majority of them agree on the science. I'm talking about general run of the mill bullshit, which generally consists of badly constructed arguments that rely on profound ignorance of our own history. So that's what I'm going to talk about in the second half of the podcast. But before we get to that, I want to hand over the mic to the people who have been leading the fight to raise awareness about the climate crisis and to ring the alarm more effectively than, than anyone has been able to, in this last decade, and that is school kids who have created the global movement.