Pullback is a podcast that explores big ideas and asks: is this a real solution or a distraction? Through discussions with leading experts, we cover ideas that proponents say will address global problems like inequality and climate change.
Episodes
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Kristen and Kyla discuss how to recognize prominent forms of climate denial, where climate denial started and where it is now, and what you can do to push back.
Check out this great episode from How to Save a Planet for a guide to deep canvassing: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gbCRFSDUNznZhNhlZKrYX
And one more from this great pod on how to talk to your loved ones about climate change: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/z3hog9o/trying-to-talk-to-family-about-climate
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Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
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In this episode, Kristen and Kyla talk to Sarah King, Head of the Oceans and Plastics Campaign at Greenpeace Canada, about the plastic pollution crisis.
Visit the Greenpeace action page: https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/act/
Visit the Greenpeace plastics page: https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/plastic/
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Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Kyla is joined by Terence Hamilton, domestic policy specialist focusing on child rights, health equality, and social justice with UNICEF Canada, or the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF was established after world war 2 and works for child rights and well being. UNICEF helps children through natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and works to build global health and welfare systems that provide essential services, education, and safe environments for children and their families. Terence tells Kyla about the Innocenti Report Card 17, which focuses on the following questions: How do environmental factors affect children’s well-being? How are many of the world’s richest countries faring in terms of providing a healthy environment in which children can live, develop and thrive? What actions can these countries take to improve the environments in which children live? There’s a focus on Canada’s place in the report card, though Kyla urges everyone to read the general report as well.
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UNICEF Innocenti 17 Report Card: https://www.unicef-irc.org/places-and-spaces
The Canadian companion to the report card: https://www.unicef.ca/en/unicef-report-card-17
Join the Halloween Walk-a-thon: https://www.unicef.ca/en/halloween-walk-a-thon
Young people are taking the Canadian government to court for climate justice: https://davidsuzuki.org/project/youth-climate-lawsuit/
Follow youth legislation in Canada, including C-210, aiming to lower the voting age from 18 to 16: https://oneyouth.unicef.ca/en/child-rights-legislation-tracker
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Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
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“So instead of being the Paper Bag Princess, we’re all kind of the plastic bag Princesses.”
In this episode, Kyla and Kristen try out plastic-free July. Kyla discovers that coffee cups are plastic. Kristen joneses for chips. Topics: what even is plastic; the history of plastic; common types of plastic; plastic pollution; recycling plastics; and bioplastics.
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This week Kristen recommends Plastisphere Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plastisphere-a-podcast-on-plastic-pollution-in/id1435041659
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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Kristen and Kyla are joined by Megan Linton, host of Invisible Institutions, to discuss the book “Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways To Think Like a 21st-Century Economist” by Kate Raworth. The book focuses on seven ways in which mainstream economics has failed humanity and paints a picture of a world where a just society lives within the means of our planet - and that picture looks like a doughnut!
Find a great summary of the book here
Want to read the book? We recommend checking to see if your local library has it (that’s where Kyla got her copy)
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Invisible Institutions: http://invisibleinstitutions.com/
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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“I mean I just smell like vinegar. I don’t know if that’s better.”
In this episode, Kyla and Kristen fail at the ultimate sustainability challenge: going zero waste. Learn about some easy wins, as well as Kristen and Kyla’s “probably never” list. Topics: what is zero waste; the disposable society; single-use plastics and our oceans; the zero waste movement; zero waste principles (reduce, reuse, recycle, compost); how to go zero waste(ish); waste-free shops; Kristen and Kyla try DIY zero waste recipes while riding out week 1 of the pandemic.
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
This week, Kyla and Kristen are joined by Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, a weekly podcast that critiques the worldview of Silicon Valley. Paris has been published by NBC News, CBC News, Toronto Star, Jacobin, Tribune, OneZero, Canadian Dimension, and more. Paris holds a Master's degree in Geography and will be talking to us about their new book, “Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation”. This book explores the history of transportation and the current problems with tech in transport, with a focus on Silicon Valley and their visions of the future. Topics: history of cars; history of taxis; why Silicon Valley struggles to meet the needs of the general public; how to argue with an Elon Musk apologist; better solutions for the future.
Get your copy here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
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“That’s typically what taxes are, Kyla. We just don’t apply them to a lot of big companies…”
Kristen and Kyla wrap up their discussion on electronics by exploring the complicated story of conflict minerals. Topics: what are conflict minerals; Democratic Republic of the Congo and conflict minerals; The Enough Project; what companies can do; what legislation can do; what you can do.
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Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Kristen and Kyla are joined by activist Robert Miller to discuss Corey Doctorow’s book “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”. For extra credit Kyla and Kristen also tried to read Shoshana Zuboff’s “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”, as Doctorow wrote his piece in large part as a response to Zuboff’s. Topics: what is surveillance capitalism; what are the harms of surveillance capitalism; what would a world without surveillance capitalism look like.
Robbie encourages listeners to support BSA (Black Socialists in America) - https://blacksocialists.us/dual-power-map
Robbie would also like everyone to read more Murray Bookchin - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/murray-bookchin
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Read "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" here: https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
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"I remember years ago going to an optometrist, and they ask how many hours of screen time I have in a day and at the time I think I sort of sheepishly said like 4 hours, or something like that, knowing it was actually higher. But today if I went it's like… well how many hours am I awake in a day?"
Kristen and Kyla explore the ethics of consumer electronics, with a deep dive into human rights and the environment. Topics: the history of electronics; what's in a computer; supply chains; factory working conditions; mining; rare earth mineral refining and toxic waste; e-waste dumping and recycling; the right to repair and planned obsolescence; what you can do.
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