In which my brother Chris and I share our list of the major climate stories of the year. This has been a watershed year for the planet, in ways both good and bad.

Four lessons from climate history

Sep 10th, 2023 8m 57s

I've recently been doing a deep dive into the last hundred years of the climate conversation. Here are the top four surprising takeaways.

We don't like change

Aug 8th, 2023 8m 55s

When it comes to adapting to our new world, are humans more like crows or more like sparrows? An episode about inventive intelligence vs Facebook nostalgia.

Falling in love with microplastic

May 6th, 2023 8m 54s

The Real Housewives of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.You already know: plastic is everywhere. It's a familiar story, we hear it every week, told in the same way with the same moral. But is there a different way to tell this story?

We've been here before

Feb 16th, 2023 10m 17s

When a fifth of the world went underwater, we had to become something new in order to survive. Now, we have to do it again.

The day after a shooting

Dec 19th, 2022 11m 34s

Every shock that brings us close to death has three things in common.https://davidfinnigan.substack.com/

We gather strength as we go along

Nov 8th, 2022 10m 41s

You've already, in the last years and decades, absorbed so much climate grief and loss - and you're still okay. Joy is coming, as well as pain.

How to get your bearings in the age of confusion

Aug 2nd, 2022 11m 35s

Everything shifted in the late 2010s. Now we're in a new world, and it's crucial we reorient ourselves before we lose our way completely.

How to fall in love with the world as it unravels

May 16th, 2022 12m 12s

Lessons I learned as a taxi driver for injured possums.

A career built on failure

Feb 28th, 2022 10m 25s

The failure of my arts practice - or, why the arts will never succeed in communicating the truth of climate and global change.

When will the climate era end?

Jan 13th, 2022 13m 23s

We try to make sense of who we are by dividing our lives into chapters. But chapters have ends - so if the climate era is one chapter of human history, when will it conclude? And who will we be on the other side of that journey?

What theatre teaches us about preparing for disaster

Oct 13th, 2021 14m 1s

People have described Covid as a kind of rehearsal for the oncoming crises of climate and global change. But if it is, it's a very particular kind of rehearsal that theatre-makers know as the 'stumble through'.

Does someone deserve to die for this?

Sep 15th, 2021 11m 27s

Have we all become quietly radicalised in the last two years?A dive into the world of climate activism in the last three years - what drove the sudden escalation in the year 2018, where are we headed next, and how has lockdown turned each of u

No new normal

Aug 17th, 2021 12m 44s

The thing I find hardest to process about planetary change is that we're not heading towards a new normal. There's no new paradigm that we'll reach. The impacts won't hit in one single burst or a smooth continuum: they will accelerate.So how d

You're not a primate, you're a missile

Jul 13th, 2021 7m 58s

Things change when you become an accelerated species. A story about the difference between shooting an animal and striking it with a car, and about roadkill that hits back.

Trying to change the world, not understand it

Jun 7th, 2021 12m 9s

In this episode, I talk about the connection between scientific models and games. Both are tools to help us think about the world - but not just for the sake of understanding it. Instead, scientists and artists model the world so we can help tr

In praise of shifting baseline syndrome

Mar 5th, 2021 8m 3s

Some people say we need to remember what we’ve lost, in order to fight to stem those losses - but increasingly, I wish I could forget the world of my childhood altogether.

My personal moral hazard

Feb 13th, 2021 10m 44s

In 2015 I wrote a play called Kill Climate Deniers. One of the scariest predictions in that play - one of my personal biggest climate fears - took place last year. But I was completely wrong about how I’d react.I don’t think I realised until t

The end of climate art

Jan 15th, 2021 8m 8s

'Climate art' emerged several decades ago as a label for art and storytelling engaged with climate change. Around the turn of the century, the genre label made some sense. But the 21st century has seen a growing awareness that climate change is

Where's the hope?

Jan 5th, 2021 6m 55s

As an artist making work about the climate and the environment, the most frequent question I get asked in interviews is, ‘Where’s the hope?’ But I find myself asking myself: Are you asking for a way to help or a way to make yourself feel bette

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