You have to hand it to climate journalist Amy Westervelt. She doesn't give up.
In October, NBC's Al Roker and Savannah Sellers presented her with Covering Climate Now's Audio/Radio award for the Mad Men season of her climate change podcast Drilled, which focused on the 100-year history of fossil fuel propaganda in the United States.
In December, she sounded off in a Guardian Article About Oil Companies deceptive advertising about fossil fuels, climate change, and what they're doing to help the environment.
Next month, the host of Drilled, the most-downloaded climate podcast, and Rigged, exposing the history of disinformation, will launch a new podcast: Damages.
Damages is a courtroom drama that follows the hundreds of climate lawsuits currently active all over the world. It's a show about the quest for justice and a crime against humanity: the climate crisis. The show will cover a wide variety of cases, from fraud and liability suits against the oil companies to claims against governments all over the world for their failure to protect citizens' rights to a healthy environment.
The first season, which begins February 17, explores "rights-of-nature" laws, which bring Indigenous approaches to nature into Western judicial systems by giving ecosystems the same rights that individuals have.
If a corporation can be treated as a person, why can't a lake? Westervelt uses original reporting and interviews to unpack a series of fascinating climate cases that could have major legal implications in the fight to save life on Earth, from wild rice suing the state of Minnesota over a pipeline permit to a cloud forest suing the government of Ecuador over mining.
Listen to the Damages trailer here or on any podcast app.
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