The Burning Case Podcast
1) "Building Coalitions of Hope" - Defeating the Far Right - Part 1
In just a couple of months European citizens will be heading to vote in both national elections and the 2024 European elections - and the stakes have never been higher! Hence, we are on a mission to ...Show More
2) "Guess Who's Back, Back Again?"
Hello everyone! And welcome back to a new season of the Burning Case podcast! We're happy to be back in your ears and hope you had a lovely summer. Today's episode is a bit of a different on...Show More
3) Life in Plastic, Is Not So Fantastic: How Plastic Is The Fossil Fuel Industry's Next Frontier
Did you know that about 8 percent of the world’s oil production is used to make plastic and power the manufacturing of it? And what's even more frightening is that figure is projected to rise to ...Show More
4) Turning The Page to Fit Today's World: How Media Is Reinventing Itself.
Did you know that some studies have shown that individuals that are exposed to several hours of news coverage on a specific event have experienced more physical and mental issues than those who direct...Show More
5) Fast & Furious Fashion: How Europe Wants to Tackle the Industry's (Many) Problems
To round off our two-episode series on the state of the fashion industry today, we are taking a deep-dive into the current policies being discussed at EU level to tackle the environmental and social i...Show More
6) Rana Plaza, 10 years on - Has the Fashion Industry Really Changed?
Ten years ago today, 1,134 workers lost their lives in the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh. It is considered the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history. To commemorate this tragic event, we a...Show More
7) Look Down: Why It's Crucial to Stop Deep Sea Mining Now!
Today we take a deep-dive (yes, pun fully intended) into the ocean and more specifically into what lies under it. We are joined in this episode by Anne-Sophie Roux, Deep Sea Mining Campaign lead to d...Show More
8) Hand Over The Billions: Why It's Time For A Windfall Tax on Corporate Profits?
$200 billion dollars. This is how much profit the big 5 fossil fuel companies have made in 2022.Shocked? Disgusted? Angry? Join the club… While major corporations are announcing record-breaking profit...Show More
Hand Over The Billions: Why It's Time For A Windfall Tax on Corporate Profits?
40:40 | Feb 10th, 2023
9) Mental Health is political: how oppressive systems hurt our minds
Did you know that there has been a 13% per cent rise in mental health conditions and substance use disorders in the last decade? And that 20% of the world’s children and adolescents nowadays have a me...Show More
10) Don't Gas Africa: Ending Fossil-Fuel Energy Apartheid in Africa
Did you know that 600 million Africans are currently left without access to modern clean renewable energy and that this number is likely to increase if further gas and oil projects are undertook. To e...Show More