Your Brain On Climate
By Dave Powell
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Sep 3, 2025
We're used to thinking of climate change as an external or techie thing. This podcast reorients the conversation to focus on psychology and our environmental pressures. You'll learn a lot!
Description
A show about climate change and climate psychology. But sideways. Explore human brains doing amazing or awful things, learn why, then see what it means for the planet.
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Discounting the Future
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May 01, 2026 |
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Use Your Fear, with Sarah Jaquette Ray
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The Dutch have a word for your flimsy excuses
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Hope, with Pancho Lewis
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Eat a Proper Lunch
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Fear of Numbers, with Rob Eastaway
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Bonus episode: Climate Magic, featuring me
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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The Weight of Nature, with Clayton Page Aldern
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Change It Up
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Forecasting the Weather, with Helen Roberts
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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How to talk about the climate emergency
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Manosphere, with James Bloodworth
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Spooky 👻
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Is Climate Anxiety real? with Geoff Beattie
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Change Blindness
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Fear of Death, with Molly Conisbee
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Optimism Bias
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Climate Violence, with Peter Schwartzstein
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Laughing Matter
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Parenting in the Climate Crisis, with Nina Alexandersen and Sophia Cheng
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Somewhere, with Karl Dudman
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Kill All Pests
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May 30, 2025 |
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Bullsh*t, with Mike Berners-Lee
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May 11, 2025 |
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You Disgust Me
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Cognitive Dissonance, with Sarah Stein Lubrano
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Running Up That Hill
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Confirmation Bias, with Adam Harris
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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The Conservative Lag
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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(Getting Your Head Around) the End of the World, with Laurie Laybourn
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Stories of Action, with Kris de Meyer
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Common Sense, with Dannagal Young
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Are Scientists Ever Truly Neutral? with Lydia Messling
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Mental heat, with Alessandro Massazza
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Deep Time, with Ella Saltmarshe
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Luck, with Will Snell and Anita Sangha
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Values Action Gap, with Gail Hochachka
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Mindfulness, with Jamie Bristow
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May 31, 2024 |
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Conversations, with Alex Evans
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Success, with Simon Mundie
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Biophilia, with Lauren Hall Ruddell
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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(Dis)trusting Climate Science, with Laur Hesse Fisher
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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We, with Jonathan Rowson
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Behaviour Change, with Lorraine Whitmarsh
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Endurance, with Damian Hall
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Liberalism, with Christopher Shaw
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Decolonisation, with Ayesha Siddiqi
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Comedy, with Stuart Goldsmith
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Honesty, with Rupert Read
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Negotiation, with Camilla Born
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May 23, 2023 |
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Flies (and Fleas), with Erica McAlister
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Bystander Effect, with Gerdien de Vries
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Foresight, with Adam Bulley
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Metaphor, with Simon Lancaster
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Play, with Lucy Hawthorne
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Consciousness, with Anil Seth
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Schadenfreude, with Aaron Balick
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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(Super)Heroes, with Al Kennedy
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Disgust, with Yoel Inbar
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Psychogeography, with Philippa Holloway
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Pluralistic Ignorance, with Deborah Prentice
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Connection, with Alison Crowther
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Conflict, with Ian Leslie
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Change, with Andrew Simms
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Grief, with Ro Randall
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Food, with Kimberley Wilson
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Risk, with Adam Corner
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Jul 18, 2021 |