This week Grace, Rob and James cover climate hange and democratic nationalisation, Planetary redesign, AI hallucination and automation, and The Zero Waste Festival. 

7:08 - Emeritus Professor Rob White

Vivien Langford from the Climate Action show interviews Emeritus Professor Rob White from the University of Tasmania. Vivien and Rob talk about Eco socialism and regaining democratic control of the essentials for survival, energy, water, land: the blockaders have thrown down the gauntlet and the banks and government subsidies are accelerating climate change, so is it unthinkable that they could be brought under democratic control? They explore how capitalism is the root cause of climate chaos. Rob describes democratic nationalisation and how we can produce and consume only what we need.

7:20 - Liam Young 

Rob talks to Liam Young, a director, world-builder and speculative artist about his exhibition Planetary Redesign which offers a radically optimistic take on a post-climate-crisis future. The exhibit is being shown from now until February eleventh next year. 

7:43 - Elena Ashton 

Grace speaks with Elena Ashton, London-based content specialist at Zapier. Elena is an advocate for automation and loves telling stories of better accessibility for automation. Last week, we revisited a conversation with Dr Sarah Bentley, research scientist at CSIRO, discussing the difference between human and AI hallucintion. This time, Elena and I dive deeper into looking at different ways to prevent AI hallucination, but with the context of ChatGPT. 

8:00 - Kirsty Bishop-Fox 

James and the team talk to Kirsty Bishop-Fox, the President of Zero Waste Victoria about the upcoming Zero Waste Festival - a free experience being held at Fed Square this Saturday offering insights into the environmental impact of waste and actionable steps to adopt a zero waste lifestyle, among many other topics. For more details and free tickets, head to zerowastevictoria.org.au. 

Songs Played: 

Running with the hurricane - Camp Cope 

Sunshine - Emma Donovan 

It's a long way to the top - Lucinda Williams 

Mother's Child - Christine Anu