A podcast and newsletter that make sense of climate politics, produced & presented by Amy Mount
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🔥 2023 was the hottest year on record.
🗳️ 2024 is general election year in the UK.
👋 Introducing Political Heat, here to make sense of climate politics.
📻 Listen to the podcast trailer: political-heat.captivate.fm/
✍️ And check out the newsletter: politicalheat.substack.com/
The same reasoning applies here! You can still follow or subscribe to Political Heat wherever you get your podcasts & on Substack. Or get in touch at [email protected]
The latest blog explores an expansive idea of #beauty put forward by @fionacreynolds, a former Director General of the @nationaltrust. She told Amy on the podcast: “we need to get back to the soul of our movement, and beauty is a wonderful way of capturing that….” (1)
There are 3 reasons why this matters:
1. Fiona’s concept of beauty provides a fuller view of what’s at stake in environmental politics
2. It’s partly what sustains us as individual campaigners
3. It connects the climate with ordinary people in a more personal, emotive way (3)
Read the blog post for a deeper exploration of these ideas: open.substack.com/pub/politi… (🧵 ends)
Out now: the blog post to accompany Episode 8 with @fionacreynolds. It explores whether the #climate movement should be fighting for #beauty
politicalheat.substack.com/p…
13. Do local #communities make a difference? With @DaniellePalmour of @FProvFoundation
