The Good Dirt with Byron Smith
News:Politics
First episode! Byron Smith is joined by Scott Sanders in a new podcast in three segments, seeking to join the dots between apparently disparate news stories in order to explore and respond to some of the major trends and forces driving change in the world today.
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Episode Outline
I. What's the big idea?
The idea of common grace is the Christian teaching that God is good to all, irrespective of moral status. We get to join in!
Common Grace is a digital-first movement of over 40,000 Australian Christians passionate about Jesus and justice, with a particular focus on four issues: justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; climate and creation justice; justice for refugees and people seeking asylum; domestic and family violence. Scott Sanders is CEO of Common Grace.
Common Grace (website)
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II. What's going on?
Story #1: Air pollution: Everything you should know about a public health emergency
Story #2: WWF Report: Mass wildlife loss caused by human consumption
Story #3: Loneliness study finds one in five Australians rarely or never have someone to talk to
III. What do we do?
George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: A new politics for an age of crisis (book)
George Monbiot, "Out of the Wreckage: A new politics for an age of crisis" (lecture)
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11. Brooke Prentis: political vs partisan, bushfire smoke, burning rainforests, humpback recovery, cashless welfare cards, civil liberties narrowing, persecution of Uyghurs
10. Adam Wood: intergenerational injustice, bushfires and coal in NSW, electric vehicles in Australia, climate strike
9. Mick Pope: Anthropocene, 11,000 scientists, bad climate ancestors, profiting from destruction, and secondary boycotts
8. David Clough: humans and other animals, live export, Australia's extinction crisis, climate emergency, role of faith communities
7. Jason John: identity protective cognition, existential risks, election analysis, Adani update, islander rights
6. Ben Thurley: the Overton window, Coalition budget priorities, climate policies compared, how change happens
5. Miriam Pepper: the Murray-Darling river basin - a case study in ecology, history and politics
4. Josh Dowton: epistemic priority on the oppressed, 26th January, developments in the coal industry, school strike for climate, insect decline
3. Lisa Sharon Harper: Core spiritual lies, colonialism and race, Freedom Road, Pacific climate neighbourliness, nonviolent civil disobedience
2. Brooke Prentis: just world belief, Aboriginal deaths in custody, climate neighbourliness, carbon and nutrition, adulterated honey
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