Lawyer, climate storyteller, and founder of the UBC Climate Hub, Grace Nosek, joins host Am Johal on a mission — to publicly uncover feelings of ‘climate doom’ and ‘individual responsibility’ as narratives dispelled by the fossil fuel industry. While leading this charge, Grace speaks about Exxon Mobil at the forefront of climate science — spinning its narrative web that entangles any space from broadcasting and universities, to legislation. 

Grace also discusses her work with the UBC Climate Hub, and the integral role that youth (as well as Indigenous and racialized people) have in this movement of anti-capitalist defiance. She and Am also speak about overcoming eco-anxieties, the importance of making a small day-to-day difference that can ‘ripple outward,’ and Grace’s belief in Pleasure Activism. They end this interview with a brief discussion of Grace’s inspiration to write her hopeful young adult climate fantasy series, Ava of the Gaia.

Planet Potluck Episode 7: Restorying the Climate Crisis with Grace Nosek (Guest Episode)

Grace chats with Kelsey Skaggs, lawyer and Executive Director of the Climate Defense
Project, about suing Harvard for its failure to divest from fossil fuels while still a law
student and the growing momentum around the climate necessity defense. They talk
about the decades-long campaign by members of the fossil fuel industry and their allies to
undermine climate science and disempower the public, and how regular people have
found the courage to risk their bodies and their freedom in nonviolent civil disobedience
against government and industry policies that worsen the climate crisis.

Planet Potluck Episode 4: Kelsey Skaggs

Hosted by Grace Nosek, Planet Potluck combines personal storytelling and interviews to explore stories of hope, joy, and community in the climate movement. After telling her own story of finding joy and fulfillment in climate work after personal tragedy, Grace interviews the friends she’s made through her years as a climate activist—students, professors, organizers, lawyers, activists on the front lines, engineers, and more. 

What emerges is an intimate look at the grief and joy of leaning into the climate fight and the beauty of standing shoulder to shoulder with friends to face an existential threat.

Planet Potluck Episode 4: Kelsey Skaggs

Planet Potluck

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