What if we could laugh at Big Oil culture, instead of cry? That’s what comedian, producer, and philanthropist Jessie Bluedorn tells Climate Curious’s co-host Ben Hurst she’s trying to do. The mission? Turning existential dread into existential joy. When it comes to tackling the global polluters with comedy, the founder of The Carmack Collective and Carmack Production explains “climate storytelling isn’t the broccoli". Stop trying to hide it on people’s plates, and instead cast Big Oil culture as the absurdist primetime punchline it really is. Jessie spills all on judo-flipping Big Oil’s PR into juicy on-stage satire, and how pop culture moves the cultural needle faster than any white paper. We also end with an exclusive snippet from the Carmack Productions ‘SLICK’ live event at New York Climate Week 2026.

Featured comedians:

Eeland Stribling

Alise Morales

Watch the Slick Web Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQG-6F861U

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Climate Curious experts share candid voice notes on their reactions to the reopening of the Jackdaw gas field in the UK’s North Sea, and what we do next. Tune in with our guest narrator Clover Hogan to hear hot takes from Laura Clark from Client Earth, Rosie Latchford from Uplift UK, Francesca Willow from Ethical Unicorn and Maya Mailer from Mothers Rise Up to understand why Jackdaw is an important turning point for the UK, how to myth bust some of the key arguments surrounding Jackdaw, and how we keep going despite the setback.

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Maya Mailer, Mothers Rise Up

Rosie Latchford, Uplift UK

Laura Clark, ClientEarth

Francesca Willow, Ethical Unicorn

Narrated by Clover Hogan

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“There is nothing that brings me greater joy than when I'm down in a super murky river… and I find a prehistoric megalodon tooth the size of my hand,” says expedition and technical diver, Andi Cross. From deadlifting her own bodyweight, to braving the dark and fast river currents with near-zero visibility, where one moment of equipment failure could be the difference between life and death. In conversation with Climate Curious co-host Ben Hurst, Andi sifts through the high stakes nature of being an underwater explorer, and the path she took to getting there and breaks down why diverse role models are important in ocean conservation, and what it takes to become an elite underwater athlete for the planet. Recorded in New York.

Listen to the full Climate Curious episode with Andi Cross: https://tedxlondon.com/podcasts/new-york-oysters-andi-cross-billion-oyster-project/

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Learn more about Billion Oyster Project: https://www.billionoysterproject.org/about

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We thought New York City was built on dreams – turns out it’s built on oysters! Who knew New York’s harbour is home to one of the world’s biggest oyster rewilding projects? Expedition diver, Andi Cross, joins Climate Curious to share how the Billion Oyster Project is restoring NYC’s waters with the ambition of creating a self-sustaining reef system. In conversation with Climate Curious co-host Ben Hurst, they get into how these filter feeders are the backbone to a healthy ecosystem by offering the perfect nature-based solution to help create a more resilient city. They also cover what it takes to become a professional diver that specialises in the most extreme diving conditions (spoiler: farmer strength). From concrete jungle to oyster reef, tune in to hear how it all starts with one simple action: getting on the water.

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When Nicholas Cage’s Malibu home nearly got swallowed by a sinkhole last month, we knew climate change had hit the rich. And after a summer of deadly heatwaves sweeping Europe and North America, governments and businesses were forced to sit up a little straighter and start clocking the climate crisis. Sociologist, professor, and Apocalyptic Optimist Dana R Fisher joins Climate Curious’ Ben Hurst in conversation in New York to share why VIP climate shocks might not be the worst thing – becuase when climate shocks go mainstream, they can move the majority.

Enjoy this short? Why not listen to the full conversation with Dana R. Fisher: https://tedxlondon.com/podcasts/the-1-audience-climate-communicators-arent-speaking-to-with-dana-r-fisher/

Learn more about the Talking Climate Collaborative: https://talkingclimate.com/

Read the new research on climate communication: https://talkingclimate.com/landscape-assessment/

Check out Dana’s work: https://danarfisher.com/

Listen to Dana’s podcast, Apocalyptic Optimist: https://open.spotify.com/show/12FU52C6c9kIZWEk1nOyPK

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Climate communicators are quite frankly, terrible at talking to each other. Or that’s what new research just published by the Talking Climate Collaborative shows. Climate Curious invited the study’s lead researcher, sociologist and professor Dana R. Fisher to jump on the podcast during New York Climate Week to break down the results, and chat all things communication, democracy, and climate. In conversation with Climate Curious’ co-host Ben Hurst, this Apocalyptic Optimist shares how climate communicators can link arms and momentum share, why she thinks VIP climate shocks are a good thing (but can still feel sorry for Nicolas Cage), her theory on the Luigi Mangione case, and her climate clapback to the age-old (and incorrect!) “it only takes 3.5% to change the world” rule.

Learn more about the Talking Climate Collaborative: https://talkingclimate.com/

Read the new research on climate communication: https://talkingclimate.com/landscape-assessment/

Check out Dana’s work: https://danarfisher.com/

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“It seems quite counterintuitive to wade in with our chainsaws, but we are replicating a natural process that we're missing,” says National Trust woodland advisor and author, Luke Barley. Whilst one side of the battle for our world's forests involves protecting trees from destructive deforestation, Luke shares that British woodlands are actually suffering from the opposite problem, being left entirely alone. For thousands of years during what some have called ‘The Wood Age’, humans didn’t just live alongside forests, but actively shaped them, echoing the activities of wooly mammoths and other large animals from prehistoric times. Luke busts the myths of untouched, pristine, dark forests, and reveals why responsible and active forest management is essential to revive Britain’s biodiversity, by reconnecting us to our woodland roots.

Enjoyed this short? Listen to the full length interview with Luke Barley on Climate Curious here: https://youtu.be/Gm0c0KKiKFI?si=bt9tB5r8Ueq38J50

National Trust plant a tree campaign: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/plant-a-tree

Find Luke’s book ‘Ancient’ just won the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and is available here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ancient/luke-barley/9781805222231

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A solar panel in Shanghai and a wind turbine in Brasília might sound worlds apart, but the people installing renewables around the globe are breaking similar barriers and achieving the same wins: cheaper bills, cleaner energy, and better jobs! After last week's trip to Oxfordshire's Westmill Solar and Wind Farm, TEDxLondon's Deesha Chandra sits down with three global renewable energy leaders to compare and contrast energy independence lessons from around the world. Featuring: Victoria Santos from Brazil's Institute for Climate and Society, Dr. Yongping Zhang from Energy Foundation China, and Sahele Fekede from the Africa Climate Foundation. Tune in to hear how local clean energy is going global, from Brazil to China and Ethiopia. Helping bring these people together is ReNew2030, building community to share learnings and spread the renewable from local to international.

Listen to the Westmill episode on Climate Curious: https://tedxlondon.com/podcasts/how-a-community-can-build-its-own-renewable-energy-with-westmill-energy/ 

Learn more about ReNew2030: https://renew2030.org/

Learn more about Westmill Energy: https://westmillenergy.coop/about/our-story/

Institute for Climate and Society: https://climaesociedade.org/en/who-we-are/

The Energy Foundation: https://www.efchina.org/ 

African Climate Foundation: https://africanclimatefoundation.org/about-us/

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Fancy making over a million quid for your community and beyond from shared renewable energy resources? Climate Curious spent a day in sunny Oxfordshire with the fine folks at Westmill Energy to hear how they took clean shared renewable energy generation into their own hands! 17 years, 3,000 members, and a flock of sheep later; discover how this pioneering energy co-operative got off the ground, and is inspiring communities all around the world to do the same. TEDxLondon's Deesha Chandra spoke with the founding farmer in question, Adam Twine, as well as the chair of the wind farm co-op, Mark Luntley, and ex-engineer turned volunteer tour guide, Nick Boulter. Tune in to get a closer look at how a group of determined locals set up a cooperative, took on opposition, and created a true home grown clean energy success story.

Learn more about Westmill Energy: https://westmillenergy.coop/about/our-story/

How the community used its million pounds: https://westmillenergy.coop/news/westmill-1million-community-funding/

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“AI can do a lot of good things, but I'd like to see it out-drink a room of 30 people” jokes the founder of Small99 and People Planet Pint, Adam Bastock. From sleepless heatwaves to un-lit candles melting, Adam joins Climate Curious’s Ben Hurst to share  how saying cheers to the climate has helped galvanise thousands of people at hundreds of pub meetups to get involved with local climate action.  Encouraging folks to sip on solutions (as opposed to drown in doom), tune in to learn how Adam has cracked the code of connecting pub culture with climate community. Cheers to that!    

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"I literally took out my notes app, and I wrote an amendment," says 21-year-old climate activist and Director of the Federal Climate Amendment Institute, Lake Liao. Tune in to Climate Curious to hear how an AOC video he watched on a bus ride home changed everything, why court wins in Montana and Hawaii show what's possible locally when Washington won't move, and what's next for the student-led grassroots movement working to make a liveable planet a constitutional right. 

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