#154 Why We Must Wake Up To Plastic Free Life (with Kate Nelson)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week I spoke with Kate Nelson (AKA Plastic Free Mermaid)! Kate is an avid waterwoman, science communicator, plastics consultant, and author of “I Quit Plastics: And You Can Too”. We discuss how imminent the need to change the way we consume is, whether we have any power to change production and challenge big corporations, and why the culture of environmentalism, recycling and farmer’s markets has bourgeois connotations. What will make the majority of people change the way they behave? Activism Kate’s conservation work is currently centred in supporting two plastic activism causes: 1. Plastic Free Byron: a local initiative to help her hometown phase out single-use plastics. She is fundraising this through "Products with Purpose" that can be purchased on her website and she is documenting the process as a case study for others to implement in their towns. 2. Plastic Health Summit: an international summit on the emerging science on plastic's impact on humans and the environment. She is helping to report on and amplify this breaking research this month. Follow her on Instagram for entertaining educational solutions and tips to quit plastics PLUS updates on her current plastics activism campaigns. She translates science for top international plastics researchers through fascinating and fun interviews on her Youtube channel and Instagram channel. She prioritises this work due to the incredibly negative health implications caused by our daily overexposure to plastics--from synthetic carpets to plastic packaging to fast fashion. When she learned plastic doesn't biodegrade, she quit using plastics. When she learned our contact with plastic causes obesity, developmental disorders, cancer, heart disease, and infertility--she dedicated her career to helping translate this important science. The science which competes with the convenience plastic offers. Youtube: youtube.com/c/plasticfreemermaid Her book ‘I QUIT PLASTICS’ is available now: www.iquitplastics.com/book She offers in person Mermaid Retreats as well as an online Mermaid Retreat to adventure into one's higher purpose, deepen one's nature connection, meet like-minded mermaids, and quit plastics. Online Mermaid Retreat: www.plasticfreemermaid.teachable.com

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0:00.0	Hello Russell here. I'm very excited to share some of my conversation with Kate Nelson,
0:04.3	Kate Nelson, aka Plastic Free Mermaid is an environmentalist science communicator,
0:08.4	plastic activist, yogi, and author of Iquip Plastics. We just had a wonderful conversation
0:14.2	with Kate Nelson. I want to share a bit of it with you. What beach will I share,
0:17.5	Jen, do you think? A bit of bourgeois connotation. Is that a good bit?
0:21.5	Yeah, all right. This shared a bit about bourgeois connotations. Environmentalism, ecology,
0:26.1	carried about the planet. It shouldn't seem bourgeois, but does it a bit? The reason it does
0:31.1	is because if you're poor, you ain't got time for thinking about that kind of stuff. So let's
0:35.6	have a little bit of that chat. Let me know what you think. If you enjoy it, go to
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0:44.4	or whatever currency they're using in what you call your country, even though we know
0:48.4	it's facing it. It's imaginary. So it's a country. It's a consensual illusion that we're
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0:57.9	network, luminarypodcast.com under the skin, original content, wonderful episodes from contributors
1:05.5	as fantastic as Tony Robbins, Eckhart Toll, Brenne Brown. This is more than a podcast. This
1:10.8	is a course in how to live. This is a tool for awakening and for $2.99 a month, what more
1:17.1	do you want? Jam on it. What do you want it to do? Prance round in a bikini. What do you
1:21.8	want it to do? Push apps on the beach. Let's have a listen to some comments from the excellent
1:26.7	episode with Satish Kumar who I would call a world teacher. Tommy Eagresti. Amazing. Great perspective.
1:34.2	Elimis Hi Russell and team. I listen to all your podcasts religiously. And this conversation
1:39.6	with Satish Kumar is by far among my favorites. What a beautiful and enlightened human being
1:44.8	here is full of so much wisdom and optimism. I feel much more optimistic having listened to
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